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Huge Home Ed article in this weekends Financial Times magazine!!!!

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Runnerbean · 19/06/2008 19:15

Hopefully, hopefully, Sunday, I think there will be a 8 page spread on Home Education in Kent featured in The Financial Times magazine!!!!

I have heard that it is a very positive piece!

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Yurtgirl · 19/06/2008 19:25

Why HE in Kent specifically I wonder

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Runnerbean · 19/06/2008 19:32

Purely because the EO media lady lives in kent and a reporter wanted to follow a group and some families around for a week, and being near to London it saves on travelling expenses!

There is also going to be an article featuring HESFES in the Observer on Sunday.

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Fillyjonk · 20/06/2008 19:40

ooooh

just out of interest, WHY the FT?

ooooh to observer too. pil buy that, let us hope it is positive (though we are out all w/end anyway, lol)

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vesela · 21/06/2008 09:03

Unfortunately a lot of the vocabulary is loaded - the children are variously pale, undersized, serious-minded etc. You get the message. And by only the third paragraph they're fighting and climbing on the roof.

There's a really scary report from Germany parallel to the main article.

Link here: www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2eec30ea-3c0e-11dd-9cb2-0000779fd2ac.html

(My DD is only 1 btw, but I have a general interest in home ed).

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Runnerbean · 21/06/2008 09:48

I'm disappointed, it's absolute nonsense about someone climbing on the roof!!!! That NEVER happened!! And Sam's dad wasn't even there!!!!

The 'self possesssed '10 yr old girl they are talking about is actually my 8 yr old dd!!
They were talking about the Harry Potter books they had read so again nonsense!

It could have been worse though and there's a lovely picture of my youngest dd, she is the one in the red dress with her hair in her eyes!

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Flllight · 22/06/2008 18:14

Ooh I read it online and was just coming here to link!

Lovely pictures.
It's all kind of buntingy. (is that a word..)

Might make people aspire...well done RB!

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Flllight · 22/06/2008 18:15

Oh x posted! I wondered if that was her - for some reason!!

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julienoshoes · 23/06/2008 09:53

Generally I thought it was a better piece than meany that I have seen about home education.

And baring in mind that when my children came to crisis point at school, I had somewhere in the back of my mind a very vague memory of a media report on home education.
I typed in 'Education Otherwise' into the search engine one exceedingly stressed Friday evening-the information came up and I knew I had found the answer! The deregistration letter went in on the Monday!

So even if the article has been edited down and thereby changed from what you wanted it to be, I am of the opinion that the article may just be a life saver for some child, who is suicidal right now-as their parent reads about an alternative to the misery that school is to some, as it was for my children

Thank you very much to all involved for doing it.

And RB it is a lovely picture of your daughter!

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GoldstonAcademyForTheInsane · 28/06/2008 23:29

I thought the writer tried to be reasonably balanced. At least it wasn't really slating home-ed. It sort of lost it a bit at the end when it talked about "Universal Education for All".

It could have been a lot worse.

It might just help some parents whose children are suffering in school to consider an alternative.
Amanda

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