There are a number of websites worth visiting on the campaign for exemption from the Government’s proposed learning and development goals. http://www.savesteinerschools.org/ has up to the minute information in relation to Steiner schools, the main thrust of the OpenEYE campaign is here http://openeyecampaign.wordpress.com/about/ and the petition to the Government to reconsider is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OpenEYE/. Please do go on [...]
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Campaign against compulsory learning goals
Posted in OpenEYE, Parents' rights, tagged Alternative Education, Education, Home Schooling, OpenEYE, Parents' rights, Steiner Education, Waldorf Education on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Government should learn from Steiner and home schoolers
Posted in OpenEYE, Parents' rights, tagged Alternative Education, Education, Home Schooling, OpenEYE, Parents' rights, Steiner Education, Waldorf Education on February 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This according to a recent article in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/08/schools.education which says that an increase in testing and pressure to start kids in school as early as four years old are driving families away from mainstream education. A little while ago I was in the audience for a Teachers TV programme The Big Question that discussed the Cambridge review of [...]
