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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:13:38 JST HebrideanHecate

   • Lady Bexington

   @Ladyfat

   https://thecritic.co.uk/the-state-versus-the-family/

   It has subsequently been revealed that the social services knew of Sara’s undesirable circumstances a few days after birth. Ten years later, she had not been removed from harm’s way, and yet are we to believe that the final four month period of so-called “home education” was what killed her? For Phillipson to link the two issues so deliberately in a spree of December headlines was deplorably misleading. To go on and then lampoon the Conservatives for chasing headlines regarding a much more relevant scandal was the height of hypocrisy.

   One point I hope we can all agree on is that the state is not, and has never been, a good parent. For all of the allergic reactions to the Conservative amendment requesting an inquiry into grooming gangs one awkward truth does ring out. The young girls of Rotherham, Telford, Oldham and four dozen other towns, were not taken from round a kitchen table’s science experiments, or snatched from front room read-a-loud — they were taken from care homes, exploited, and returned to those very same homes, with no parental oversight. It’s an unsavoury note to finish on, but how can we not, when the abuse and murder of a 10-year-old was used to push this legislation in the first place? Let us question: if statism leads to care, and care to Rotherham, and if education and social services couldn’t stop it, why bring the state down on the best people and places where education can be administered safely — parents in the home.

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     Lady Bexington (ladyfat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:13:38 JST Lady Bexington

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     @HebrideanHecate Yes! The bill is about control. They’re fucking terrified because so many of my generation (over educated under employed/paid) looked at what was on offer and knew we could do better. With a first class degree in a core subject and my two nearest schools “needing improvement” how could I fail to do better?

     As for poor Sara. The government have made home education its sacrificial goat to slaughter whilst nobody dare look at the religions of peace and misogyny.

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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:13:38 JST EatKnitSleep

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     • Lady Bexington
     @Ladyfat @HebrideanHecate Every time a child is removed from school and subsequently murdered, home education gets the blame.
     
     Every time, the serious case review shows that the authorities had many opportunities to save the child, but they failed to act.
     
     But people remember shocking headlines, not serious case reviews.
     
     If any of this was really about protecting children, the statistics about home educated children being less likely to suffer violence, abuse and murder than their schooled peers would be much more widely known.
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