Green Party policy on home education

Has it ever occurred to the Greens that if children were HE then there would be no need for a school run twice each day? Somehow I think the Greens are overlooking the obvious when it comes to finding solutions to reduce the number of children transported to and from school in cars.



The issue of the Green Party's obsession with multiculturalism in education has been mentioned in the summary of party policies on home education.



There are many good reasons why parents don't want their children to attend the local school. Notable examples include:

1. Bullying.

2. Having to mix with obnoxious or unfriendly children resulting from their background or poor parenting.

3. Lacking staff who are knowledgeable about a specific type of SEN.

4. The school has more serious problems to deal with that there is no time or money to address the SEN of a handful of children.

It's quite common for parents of children with SEN to initially send them to a local school then move them to a different school at a later date because services are better there. Has the Green Party ever discussed their educational policies with the parents of children with SEN?

Overlooking the obvious seems to be a common trait amongst the Greens in my locality.



I think the problem with the Greens is that they have visions of some utopian dream where everything works perfectly without any problems. This is why they come out with phrases like "a good local school" rather than accepting that not all schools are equal despite having the NC and tons of legislation imposing standardisation from central government.



Local members definitely have but whether the information finds its way to the senior officers of the party is another matter.

The Green Party are gathering information from the public in order to update and improve their home education policy which will be debated at the Autumn conference in early September. Please submit any comments at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b6at9b ... I/viewform

The Asperger Home Education commentary.

http://www.aspergersupport.org.uk/news/a28.html

Still no update on progress from the Green Party. I will send them an email asking whether ED152 has been amended or not.

I have noticed something that could be a bit worrying for HE parents who's children have been unhappy at school.

Natalie Bennett (the leader of the Green Party) made a speech at the Islington Green Party AGM back in 2013 where she proudly announced that "I was, at around the age of 10, a child who didn’t just love school, but loved learning".

Our own experience reveals that adults who generally enjoyed school themselves are less likely to understand children who do not enjoy school than adults who were unhappy at school or struggled with problems relating to the school environment and its system of teaching and learning. This is regardless of their love of learning. If one enjoys something then they are less likely to be critical of it than if they didn't enjoy it or it failed to meet their expectations.

Therefore, Natalie Bennett might struggle to understand the difficulties children with AS encounter at school and how it affects their happiness and well being.

http://islington.greenparty.org.uk/news ... islington/

The management of Asperger Home Education feel that a high proportion of the educational reforms put fowards by the Green Party are geared towards NT children of average academic ability rather than children with AS or those with high abilities. Children with interests in STEM or technical subjects could also lose out because the Green Party officials tend to come from an arts and humanities background.