Vexatious consultations
We’re reasonable people aren’t we? We’ve responded to consultation after consultation. Answered Graham Badman’s stupid, loaded questions. Submitted evidence to a select committee. Right now there’s a consultation on licensing and monitoring which we will reply to, despite knowing full well that everything we say will be totally ignored.
But this. This is TAKING THE PISS!
Education Otherwise has just learned from DCSF that the long-awaited consultation on the definition of “full-time education” will be launched “in 2010″.
What is the point? They can’t possibly come up with one number, LAs certainly don’t want a definition which will force them to pay for x hours tutoring per week for ill and excluded children. They’d have to define what constitutes ‘education’ in the first place and that can only end in tears.
Maybe they don’t really intend to hold this consultation and are simply ‘leaking’ the idea to get back at all the home educators who just made submissions to the Children, Schools and Families Committee inquiry into Badman’s report. Maybe this is just the DCSF giving us the finger and saying “You think that stupid committee is going to stop us? Nobody can stop us! We’ll run consultation after consultation until you’re begging for mercy!”