On the radio

Just had an email read out on the radio

Home Education is one of the topics featured on the Andy Harper show today (they had a bit earlier about? family home educating becuase of bullying of their daughter.) Another lsitener made the old comment about children needing to go to school to socialise, know how to gte on in the real world so I whacked of? quick email which they then read out. Plenty to be critical about on re-reading of course, but it was a bit of? quickie:

Just been listening to? the bits on Home education on your program.

why do some people seem to think that Home education means that children sit at home and never get out and meet other children? That certainly isn’t true of any of the children I know, nor of our daughter – in Cambridgeshire there is? thriving HE community, with lots of different actives going on every week. There are all the classes that children can attend such as ballet & swimming lessons, brownies, scouts, youth clubs, play schemes? etc. as well as more informal contacts.

We as a family will be going away for a week with 18 other HE families in Feb and later on in the year again, and as for the 10 HE children filing up our house
yesterday…..

It’s interesting that this issue of ‘socialising’ is one that is so often raised.
- yes it is something to be considered, but people who start home educating soon realise it isn’t really an issue but yoiu might just need to be? a bit proactive.

To be honest, when the it seems someone’s argument for school is that children get to meet other children it doesn’t seem much of an argument to me.