Home-Education.org.uk
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Home education UK Menu
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It is a basic understanding of this website that children are autonomous beings and are not owned by parents. Since parents decided to bring their children into the world, without consultation the relationship between parents and children is asymmetric in that parents have obligations to their children which children do not have towards their parents.
The right to an education is a unique right in that it is an obligatory right, it is a right that may not be refused in law. A child may not for example decide not to have an education. In this respect we believe that the state should remain extremely flexible when defining 'suitable education'.
Even though the law expresses the right to home educate in terms of parental rights it is my belief that such a right is ultimately that of the child that is the right to determine the form of education he or she should be in receipt of. In the same way that children have the right to decide upon a medical procedure children should have the right to be educated in a manner of their own choosing. This is not simply just practical but it is efficient within the meaning of the word as used in section 7 of the 1996 education act, I believe that education cannot take place against a child's wishes.
