Or there’s the alternative headline the Voice decided not to use: The six Lib Dem MPs who were in favour of devolution before they were aginst it …. The BBC reports:
Liberal Democrats say an “error” led to several of their MPs supporting an attempt to block new powers for the Welsh assembly. Six signed an amendment to a new law that would have stopped the assembly acquiring powers over home education.
The Lib Dems are in favour of more devolution, and their Welsh education spokeswoman Jenny Randerson said her colleagues had signed in error. They will now remove their names from a Conservative MP’s amendment.
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Sounds dodgy. On the other hand, people associated with governments do screw up regularly. Anybody got some real information on how this happened?
As long as home education is not being used as a cover for child abuse, which is a pretty rare occurrence, the Welsh Assembly should not have any powers over home education. Nor should Westminster.
Dunno, education is meant to prepare and arm the future citizen, but some of the home educating is done to extreme evangelical ‘courses of study’ got from the states. In the Midlands, a BNP cllr is home educating his family to make sure that they … well, guess the rest.
Not sure that the parents right to educate the child at home trumps the child’s right to receive a normal education – ought, at the very least, there not to be inspections in place?
John: What is a ‘normal education’? If home schooling is permitted at all, then the power to determine what is taught has to rest with the parents, not with politicians.
I think it’s also worth noting that children don’t automatically inherit their parents’ values. Even home educated children will be exposed to a wide range of influences through the media/internet/other people they come into contact with.