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#homeeducation

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Dash

While the kids are out celebrating a friend's birthday, I am sat attempting to write a response to the UK Gov consultation on updating the guidance on for parents and local authorities (closing tomorrow).

I've already written the best part of 2000 words, but every time I look at the draft guidance again, I see more awfulness.

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David Gray-Hammond

Forcing a person back to the source of their trauma with no meaningful support or accommodations is placing lives in danger. The new government push to get kids back into school is a danger to disabled communities.

The problem is isn't that the kids are not in school, it's that school is not a safe environment for all kids.

#ItsNotOkToNotBeOk #EHCP #EHCPsupport #ActuallyAutistic #autism #neurodivergent #Unschool #HomeEducation #disability

@neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy

Text reads "Forcing children, who are traumatised by school, back into school is like dropping a traumatised soldier back into a battlefield. You shouldn't be surprised when it starts costing lives."
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Kaylie and Lizie

Anyone who knows me well knows that child autonomy is extremely important to me.

Stumbled across this article while enjoying my morning coffee. This book, as well as Peter Gray's "Free to Learn" were instrumental in opening my own eyes to so much.

I rarely talk about this stuff on my general socials, but I felt the need to share. I'll also link to both "How Children Learn," As well as "Free to Learn," which as I said are excellent and must-read titles for anyone who follows youth rights or believes in unschooling, or simply wishes to learn how to be a better ally to children.

The Joy and Sorrow of Rereading Holt’s "How Children Learn"
psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/

How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) Kindle Edition
amazon.com/Children-Learn-anni

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life Kindle Edition
amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashi

Psychology TodayThe Joy and Sorrow of Rereading Holt’s "How Children Learn"Here, summed up, are John Holt’s great insights about children’s learning.
#homeschool#homeschoollife#homeeducation
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Ailbhe

My deschooling child is standing straighter, their hair is thicker and glossier, and they're learning *several* interesting things on their own. It's hard not to feel like we wasted seven years of their life; it was much easier for them to choose *into* school than it would have been to drop out. #HomeEducation

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Dash

@dajb We are a community of families that have chosen (and largely / ), mostly in response to *how our kids actually are*, and what it would mean to impose standard schooling on them. We are (adults and children alike) very relative to the general population.

We exist as a group because we acknowledge difference.

So yeah, I think it's *very* important that we make space for that in our decision making.

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LuciaG

I’m feeling suddenly, oddly isolated. We live in a small Midwestern town and the only co-op here is very religious. Like you have to answer questions about what you believe in order to join. I was looking at how to go about setting up a particular lesson and was hit with “I JUST WISH I HAD SOMEBODY TO TALK TO!” So where are my cool, leftist, secular homeschoolers? #HomeSchool #HomeEducation

A painting in the style of the cover to “The Pokey Little Puppy”
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Kristie

I've been teaching my eight year old to #sew as part of her #HomeEducation and this is her latest creation. An envelope-fold cushion cover for her Nana. Please note her choice of fabric and the gradient poppers to match it. It's amazing to see how excited she gets about the fact that she can make something like this from scratch. Also amazing to see her realise that all of these skills are well within her grasp. A lovely way to spend a Sunday morning.

A photograph of a cushion with a colour gradient from bright pink to turqouise.
A photograph of a cushion with a colour gradient from mid green to bright orange. There are three poppers in the middle of the cushion.
A photograph of a cushion with a colour gradient from mid green to bright orange. There are three poppers in the middle of the cushion.
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Angela

The simplest recipe and shortest prep time was the #challah, which was good enough thankfully. I brought the space heater into the kitchen to keep it warm enough for the dough to rise. Seemed to work out OK.

And Robbie is now asking more about traditions around challah, so this counts for Social Studies as well. #HomeEducation

Laminated photocopied recipe for challah
Braided challah dough under plastic
Fresh baked challah with slice
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Dash

@lukemartell @lukemartell Could you clarify/evidence this statement?

"The importance of public education for safeguarding and equality became more obvious under COVID when children spent long spells at home"

... because while the current government is keen to equate with 'safeguarding risk', I don't think they've managed to produce any evidence to that effect.

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Juniperlou

Did you know that birds have a unidirectional breathing flow? Because I didn't and it's super neat. They have air sacs behind and in front of their lungs (upstream and downstream, respectively). On an inhale, air is pulled from outside of the bird and into the back air sacs, and out of the lungs and into the front air sacs; on an exhale, the air goes from the back air sacs into the lungs, and out of the front air sacs to outside of the bird. So it's actually on the exhalation that air enters their lungs. This set up allows them to be more efficient at getting oxygen from the air than the mammalian system is.

asknature.org/strategy/respira

asknature.orgHow Air Sacs Power Lungs in Birds’ Respiratory System — Biological Strategy — AskNatureThe respiratory system of birds facilitates efficient exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen by using air sacs to maintain a continuous unidirectional airflow through the lungs.
#Science#Anatomy#Birds
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