@belle0074 When we started home-educating my mother was a priest in the Church of England, although the decision was motivated primarily by the inadequacy of the school learning system and bullying. Religion was an important part of our lives, but we were never sectarian or illiberal in the way that the media likes to portray Christian home-educators. Later on my family separated itself from the church and converted to atheism.

Thank you for your question, I hope this is helpful

Just curious. How were you homeschooled? Or why I should say. Was it based on religion ? I’m very new to homeschooling and I’ve enjoyed watching your vidoes. Thank you for caring.

It’s just horrific beyond words – thanks for being a voice for this at least. Needless to say I hope it won’t happen, and am glad to read your words, “the situation is a lot less dire than it was when I posted this video” It’s just got to be.

You’re a wonderful example of the benefits of home education. Do you feel any of the political parties would support home education more if they were voted in at the next election? In the meantime we need to put pressure on the government to rethink this.

I have had similar experience in home-educated gatherings; people of all ages and social backgrounds socialising without any trace of prejudice. The only serious problems occur when someone newly out of school joins the groups and even then solutions can be found. It is unfortunate that so many see bullying as an inevitable part of life and not as a solvable problem caused by a broken society. TBC

I would not completely equate family and child freedom, but I certainly see the need to empower parents against the state to assure that the young can have liberty; particularly in the current social context in which true youth liberation is unlikely to be accepted. Parents serve a vital and moral role; I agree that disrupting this role would be largely harmful. Bureaucratic institutions almost always prove disastrous as proxy parents. TBC

Yes, abusive behavior is not normal. Its very sad people think it is and treat the symptom (trying to come up with policies that suppress bullying) rather than the cause, unhappy and desperate children.

I remember my first homeschool group beach picnic..about 10 families with their different aged kids who didn’t know each other. The kids all happily mixed and played with no “supervision” other than knowing we were there ready to share experiences and supply assistance, hugs and food.

The orphan HIV story was horrific. I came across it on the net about a year before it broke anywhere, the whistleblower was begging for help getting the story published. So not only was the social service and judicial system not working (they’d actually take custody of the children for “child abuse” if their
guardians refused or revoked consent after seeing the awful side effects) the press wasn’t working either.

I have heard about the poor laws in NYS, it is reassuring that many of you manage to home-educate irrespective of this oppression. I recall watching a documentary on NYC in which it was shown that the social services there were supporting tests using experimental drugs on orphans with HIV. If possible it seems to be one of the few places in the developed world worse at protecting children than the UK. TBC

@givebirthathome I hope your new English requirements are not too much more draconian than our undesirable but survivable NYS laws. If they are, hopefully you can organize to have them modified.

How sad these abuse arguments are being made. School itself IS abuse per se, and then there is all the rape, bullying and even murder that go on in schools.

I homeschooled/unschooled in New York State in the US, which has the almost the worst homeschooling laws in the US.
The most ridiculous was that we had to send in attendance forms : ) That didn’t really turn out to interfere with much.

However, standardized testing requirements and requirements that children “make an academic years progress” and the *requirement* to send in not only proposed curriculum but a curriculum divided into set
required subjects…it interfered.

I’m home schooled and don’t really mind for my self about the rules cos I am starting school anyway, but they suck for other people.

Great stuff! Our education system really needs an education overhaul tribe.

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Amen Seth. This guy’s a genius and speaks the truth.

Thanks for this vid, cool

Sorry but most of this is NOT new. Godin’s argument has been promoted by a good number of “liberal arts” instructors for at least a few decades now (as long as I’ve been an educator). It was and still is the argument for promoting study in the “humanities” and more specifically the visual and performing arts. Don’t get me wrong.. I’m glad Godin is promoting it.. but it might help to check into why others have not been successful in the past and perhaps help identify how “now” is any different.

Excellent!

This is fantastic!! So true! Thank you so much!