One for Chris
April 19th, 2005 by Sarah
Are these any better?
just another morning here
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Are these any better?
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April 19th, 2005 at 11:07
Ooh! I hadn’t seen that! Lovely pics & nice article. Bit controversial re: evidence and funding, but still puts us in a good light IMO
April 19th, 2005 at 11:16
Oh thanks Sarah, I tried to put that link in a comment on Chris’s, but it told me I was banned!
They are definitely better, aren’t they?
Apart from the blurb at the side about “Families in the ‘education otherwise’ programme have to supply government inspectors with evidence that their children are being educated.”!
April 19th, 2005 at 11:19
rofl, I’m following you round the blogosphere now!
Yeah, the blurb at the side was a bit wrong, but the photos themselves seemed much better!
April 19th, 2005 at 12:02
Giggle – i saw this one and thought of Chris at once!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_learning_at_home/html/3.stm
April 19th, 2005 at 12:05
On the other hand, those photos don’t look much like home Ed in my house either!
April 19th, 2005 at 12:08
It might when your children are a bit older though! I like the ones where they’re dossing around doing nothing (5 and 6, I think).
April 19th, 2005 at 19:41
Funny really, these photos would have put me off 4 years ago, i think.
April 19th, 2005 at 21:13
***Much*** better.
When I was first introduced to HE I had this vision of swots being hot-housed at home – with electronic kits on the kitchen table etc – with a view to taking GCSE’s at the age of 3 and have a DPhil by their early teens. That was the sole reason for my initial negative response to it. If I had seen normal kids dossing around I would have felt strangely comforted. I spent most of my childhood doing nothing after all. Whilst the current ‘PR’ isn’t Ruth Lawrence in nature it does over-emphasis the academic nature of HE and a bit of balance about the non-HE is really good.
I think during this summer I am going to do some sort of photo portfolio of what I consider to be a true photographio representation of summer in the life of Portico HEing. I’ll stick on the web as my contribution to publicising HE.