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grit's day: Feeling weary
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Monday, 15 December 2014. Things are stirring in the home ed 'hood. After a (relatively) long period of quiet. Not simply the trouble-making of the NSPCC, but the Sunday Times. Article, conflating out-of-school children to vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. Then further debates on changing guidance on children 'missing' education and 'questions in the house'. My guess is the registration and inspection debate will be the gift to home ed for 2015. Training up mini jihadists? It's a grit's life.
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grit's day: August 2015 already?
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Friday, 7 August 2015. We are busy. We have Big Changes in the Gritty Household. By the year end, I hope to report All is Good. And not that I have taken to a park bench, where you can find me clutching a dead badger, swigging from a second-hand bottle of Vodka, and exposing myself to dog walkers. (But I reserve the option to enjoy that scenario when I am in my dotage.). Yes We are in a countdown of our home education and we'll be doing that round of sixth form colleges come September. Used as a soil buc...
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grit's day: The other September triumphs
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014. The other September triumphs. Home ed round up. This is how it is now. Wot I did wiv the kids this month. (Except Steampunk and Hilliard, which I see command separate entries.). Otherwise: quick flyby to throw stuff from the land of parental responsibility before I go and boil a bird's wing. I have a question for you skeleton botherers. Like, how do I actually strip back all the bones to leave them clean from all the yukky stuff without damaging the bone connecting bits? Bille...
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grit's day: Of course it works!
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Saturday, 14 March 2015. Of course it works! Does it work, then? This home ed lark? Of course that's the answer! Not one of my three home ed children have yet taken themselves to a park bench, clutching a bottle of voddy and a sense of exclusion / alienation / detachment from society / despair at ever finding a job / etc. On the other hand, I can't deny, sometimes they are a bit strange. Reader, I cannot. All of this completely bypassed the interviewer/reveiwer-type person, so I wondered if they had a co...
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grit's day: Mother's Day
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Sunday, 15 March 2015. I had to buy my own bleeding heart. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's a grit's life. Knicker Drawer Note Books. Flogging home ed resources on ebay. Hello people looking for home ed inspiration. We have educated triplet girls to age 16 by never sending them to school. Reading this record may tell you why that choice beat a path of its own. Or it may tell you how school is a good idea, and Christine is right. If children are not in school they are obviously not being taught'.
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grit's day: The Monday Update
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Monday, 16 March 2015. The travelling Aunty is here. She is sleeping in the cellar with a mouse. I tell her that the mice always come in winter, and there's very little we can do about them. This is what you get with old falling down Victorian houses. Mice. It is normal. Or birds in chimneys. 31 March 2015 at 23:43. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's a grit's life. Knicker Drawer Note Books. Flogging home ed resources on ebay. Hello people looking for home ed inspiration. Christine Blower, NUT.
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grit's day: Miseria! Fortuna!
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Wednesday, 3 June 2015. Oh, my long-neglected blog! My dear, dear, grotsday! How I have not missed your charms! In truth - let me put it bluntly - I love another. (Not completely, it's a passing phase.) But I am posting there. Not daily, but let's face it, if someone's prepared to throw a few coppers in my direction and I can wangle a bit of work, then off I go. Times are hard. But here is a brief word from our 'hood. Of running about this land dressed up and idle! It was BRILLIANT, that home ed life.
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grit's day: Yeah, the rest
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Monday, 22 December 2014. Yeah, the rest. Just so I don't forget, like. Apart from Berlin, the monthly home ed triumphs. We need to record them, in case I reach the end of the month and can't recall what we did. Not any of it. 1 The lantern parades: local, various, some burning of a dragon involved. 2 More British Museum, more V&A, more British Library. 3 They went to the Globe, I went to the RSA. Yes, I managed this splendidly: I booked the offspring into an event at Shakespeare's Globe then I sloped of...
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grit's day: Clawing my way to a new normality
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Saturday, 15 November 2014. Clawing my way to a new normality. Thank goodness November has come. October was Rubbish. October will not have as it deserves. It shall not be blasted into micron particles, nor scattered through the universe, never to be assembled again. No! Good things must come from The Evil that was October. Or I am not my mother's daughter. Then, here are the good bits. 1 The British Library. I must tell myself that throwing my bank account at them is improving. For the whole family!
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grit's day: That was a lesson and a half
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Saturday, 13 December 2014. That was a lesson and a half. We took the kids to visit Berlin. We cranked up a few journeys around the museums, with a few oohs and ahhs of the sights. I particularly liked the Bauhaus Museum and the Deutsches Historisches Museum. And the upstairs German Art exhibition in the Brohan Museum. We visited a Christmas Market! In the frosty cold. And our ongoing, wide-ranging discussions on European economic policies and post-war European politics. I am grateful to my parents. ...
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