HomeSchooler.org.uk

I have been wondering why the UK government and the Swedish government appear to be sharing information and are working to the same time table* before changing their respective legislation on Elective Home Education (*June and October 09 deadlines). The FOI Literature Review for the Badman Review notes that Sweden has Scandinavia's strictest official regulation of home education in Europe with an annual license to EHE and Britain has the most liberal. Sweden is now tightening its legislation and England is following suit by adopting Sweden’s annual license and is providing a further opportunity to ban a family from exercising EHE (elective home education) with the words “anything else” embedded in the sentence “anything else which may affect their ability to provide a suitable and efficient education”. If you look at the use of language that is being used in both of England and Sweden’s proposals it would appear as though England and Sweden are both in process of bringing their legislation on home education in line with that of Germany's current legislation which bans home education – this is further suggested by the 2006 the European Court of Human Rights ruling that upheld Germany’s ban (a ban brought into being during the Third Reich by Bernhard Rust in 1938 apparently)....

"An attack on home educators is an attack on all our Liberties. They must be defended from an all powerful state."

From the EO site:
Roland Meighan has just made public his personal response to Graham Badman's
Review Report.

Roland's "creditials" are impressive and he could arguably truly be called
an "expert" in education and home education:

D.Soc.Sc, Ph.D., B.Sc.(Soc)., L.C.P.., Cert. Ed., he is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, Writer, publisher, and consultant/research er on
learning systems, past present and future. His work on ‘The Next Learning
System’ has been translated into more than twelve languages. Roland is
also Director of Educational Heretics Press, Director/Trustee of the Centre
for Personalised Education Trust Ltd. He is also a former Special Professor
of Education at the University of Nottingham and was Lecturer and then
Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Birmingham.

He is an acknowledged Educational Heretic for his view that mass compulsory
schooling is an obsolete and counter-productive learning system which should
be phased out as soon as possible and schools should be recycled into
something more personalised, flexible and humane. He began researching
home-based education in 1977, appearing as an expert witness in key legal
hearings.

His response, together with a piece entitled "A Kind of Treason" can be read
answers to the questions being what the government wants and not what the evidence
shows,