Jaz: first-class degree from London College of Fashion, despite dyslexia
24-year-old Jaz graduated with a first-class degree in Fashion Visual Merchandising and Branding from London College of Fashion. She is dyslexic, although because of the...
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12-year-old home educated Alex shares his memories of his two years of school
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Alex* joined school in reception but after two years was taken out to be home educated. The negative effects and memories have stayed with him...
Suky
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Suky talks about home educating her six-year-old daughter, who has a rare syndrome and additional needs. We home educate our nearly six-year-old daughter and have...
Home Education UK (website)
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Home Education UK is the UK’s premier source of free support since 2000. With over 200 pages providing support and information, for home educating parents...
Future and skills
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The wider world has changed almost beyond recognition yet school remains by and large the same. The English school system is still set up to...
Dear government: an open letter about special needs education
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14-year-old Rory’s video has gone viral, what she says here about the way in which children with special needs have been failed has sadly been...
Mum, Emma “I have taken my kids out of school to keep them alive”
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“It has been bloody awful. I think myself and my husband cried as much as my son. I should actually thank my daughter because without...
Education Otherwise (organisation)
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Education Otherwise (E.O.) is a membership-based charitable organisation that provides support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those...
Better ways
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The information on better ways of educating children is to show that there are alternatives, that our current school system is only one of many...
Broken system
by dan
There are many schools which manage, despite the many challenges heaped upon them, to do some really good things. There are children who love going...