Local meets for Kirklees and neighbouring areas home education families

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We are the proud owners of a mortgage free property

We have just got ourselves a second house .. a lovely residence in need of some updating but with great potential ... bought at auction for a mere 10 pounds. No mortgage but we won‘t be moving in any time soon.Its a fab new home ed project for me and liv ...  follow our progress over the next few weeks

So what did you do all summer?

        



 



The great garden project

We‘ve all had a hand in stripping the old turf and digging out tree roots ...should have called in Time Team but all we found was bits of old tiles. Hoping at least one of the kids will take to gardening.Turfing next week thanks to the sterling efforts of dh and his parents (I supplied the tea!)

Teaching your five year old to blog can have it's hazards!

Have been a truly lazy blogger over the summer holidays - due to the fact we decided to returf and rennovate the whole of our back garden.. aiming to sell the house when the market picks up ! I haven't checked in for so long I hadn't noticed that my five year old has added a video (see last post) to my blog instead of her own. I suppose it's my fault really for creating a child who blogs at bedtime via my android phone instead of sleeping ! At least her home ed IT are up to scratch !!

Why do home educating parents get no help with funding?

My recent post on  http://www.mumsnet.com/
What's everyones opinion on the fact that we don't send our children to school or we take out children out of school so the LEA saves a minimum of £3000 per year and far more at secondary level but we get no help at all with funding ? If money was available would the fact that getting funding from an LEA or direct from government mean contact with the "authorities" or providing proof that the money had been spent on the childs education put you off applying if it was available?
There was talk of giving parents a voucher which they could take to any school which represented the LEA spending for that pupil and parents would be free to top up if they wanted private ed etc. This has been put to oneside due to cuts but we are still saving the government thousands and yet paying taxes etc which fund education.
I think we should campaign for some of the money which would have been spent on our children if they were in school to be given either direct to parents or to a central elective home education body formed by home ed parents to distribute to families - I'll start a campaign if anyone is interested?

In answer to my question I pose another - is it because government and LEA's are afraid that more parents would chose home education as a lifestyle choice if funding was available ?