Regarding home education it’s been the right of all British parents to

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

Regarding home education it’s been the right of all British parents to educate their children at home since before schools became the norm, it’s the default form of education since parents actively choose to register their children at a school and that’s exactly how the law currently reads.

I realise it might not feel that way to most parents since it’s assumed you’ll be sending your children to school, but legally home education (in law it’s called education otherwise) is the default form of education.

We’ve home educated three of our children from birth, eldest soon to see his 19th birthday and at University (never went to school) and the youngest 13 and almost certainly will go to University (not been to school so far). Middle son, 16, that’s the ‘black sheep’ of the family and he rejected home education and went to school at 15, still even he’s more advanced than your average schooled child even if he is a bit of a numpty!

Two out of three doing extremely well isn’t bad and better than your average school achieves for it’s pupils.

Since I work from home and my youngest son works in the same room I work from we’ve inevitably spent a lot of time discussing politics. He wanted his own politics site:

He plans to be a graphic artist.

I think David Cameron as a waffle is hilarious :-)

It really concerns me the Labour government see home educators who are doing nothing wrong as a risk to children! Obviously if there’s evidence of abuse they should investigate and the current law more than allows for this.

The proposed legislation is the equivalent to the new over the top ant-terrorism laws they’ve brought in, except unlike with terrorism, there’s no evidence of a problem with home educators and abusing children (it’s a non-issue).

Civil liberties is the only area that REALLY concerns me about Labour. Most other areas of government they are middle of the road, but on civil liberties they go to far.

David