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Originally Posted by Maggy J
****If any parent feels that concerned then they can always be home schooled.
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It's just as well that society is somewhat less illiberal than this.
As a
teacher educator you have undoubted expertise in the practice of
teaching educating children whatever subject you're qualified in. You do not, however, have a monopoly on ideas when it comes to deciding the environment in which children should spend so many of their formative days.
Thankfully the British State has historically recognised this, and continues to do so. It recognises that the obligation it places on parents to have their children educated is beyond the means of most parents to fulfil by themselves, and therefore provides schools. It recognises also that in effectively requiring children so spend so many hours apart from their parents, it should not thereby acquire the parents' right to decide the environment in which that education takes place.