More than 75,000 children are being educated from home – almost a 40% increase from last year’s figure – with over 20,000 children having fallen off the school roll over the past year due largely to health concerns relating to Covid. MailOnline has the story.
An estimated 75,668 children and young people are being home educated across England, according to figures gathered on the first school census day of the 2020/21 academic year.
This represents an increase of some 38% from the year before – with parents citing “health concerns relating to Covid” as the main reason for keeping their children at home.
But it comes amid fears that vulnerable children are falling through the gaps.
The Chief Inspector of schools in England, Amanda Spielman, said the figures were “concerning”.
According to a report by The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), some 75,668 children and young people are being home educated across all 151 local authorities in England this year.
The ADCS estimates that a staggering 19,510 students were taken off the school roll in September alone.
The largest increase in the number of electively home educated children and young people from 2019 was among children aged 7-11 in Key Stage 2 (6,427) followed by some 4,750 in Key Stage 3 (aged 11-14).
The largest percentage increase since 2019 was in the early years (85%).
Internationally, the picture is even grimmer. A report by UNICEF published earlier this month found that 800 million children across the world are still not fully back in classes as schools remain closed or are only offering a mix of remote and in-person learning in at least 90 countries.
The MailOnline report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Fraser Nelson has written about the disappearance of tens of thousands of children from the school roll in his Telegraph column today.
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Given there is no enforcement of school pupil returns to the DfE, and schools and councils have been disrupted, and no requirement for private schools to return anything at all, never mind those that move between England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland – and drop down the separate system gap – it’s almost surprising we know anything at all.
Academies and ‘free schools’ routinely refuse to file returns because they are ‘too busy’.
We don’t know how many children are in which school in a normal year, because there is no mechanism by which government can insist that they find out.
Need to fix that first. This could all be an artefact of a reporting system that was terminally broken in the first place and has snapped under the pressure of lockdown.
It’s a case of “Meanwhile, in yet another part of the shit-show”
But – hey, let’s celebrate the fiction writers of our time with a big hand (or something). They have allowed these things to pass so easily. :
To our regiment of crap scientists! Raise your glasses!
(And don’t let’s get trapped into a debate about the virtues of home education – it’s beside the point here)
What does “concerns relating to Covid” mean?
It reads as if it’s people that have taken their kids out of school for “safety” reasons but I feel many of them could be for the opposite reason.
My sister has decided to home school her 7 year old on the basis that she won’t send her into a cold unpleasant environment while schools insist on dystopian “social distancing” and mask wearing.
I think you are correct. I work in HE and I can telly you that college (and I’m talking about post 18 provision) is so dystopian I struggle to cope with it never mind students. There is no way any right minded parent should subject their children to permanent masks, constant disinfection, zero social interaction, unintelligible speech (thanks to teaching staff being masked) and so and so on. The amazing thing to me is that so many parents are willing to send their children to school and face these conditions.
They. want their little zombies to be safeguarded, not educated.
people need to be educated on a few things:
There is no pandemic ..uk govt website shows..’not highly infectious’ and CDC shows ‘a cold’ this was three days before we were locked down last march so the whole pandemic was a fake and a fraud..
the virus was never isolated..FOI requests CDC ph england boris johnsons office wuhan china CDC etc. all admitted under FOI no isolated virus. it exists on paper only…
it is impossible to isolate a virus. Dr Lanka went to Supreme Court in Germany and his science proved that there is no way you can isolate a virus and there wasnt one for measles. He won.
. PH England still giving measles jabs out… now what is in the vaccines apart from a load of toxins and poisons.. how this is allowed is beyond my comprehension. they need to be locked up.
PCR tests fake and phony as Dr Reiner Fuellmich has proven and if you have no isolated virus what are you testing for exactly?
Dr Fuellmich has indicted Norway govt and WHO and other agencies ICC The Hague for crimes against humanity and violations of the nuremburg code. Israeli govt has also and now The Bernician has requested ICC to investigate UK Govt and advisors crimes against humanity and breaches of the Code.
He also has a court case at bromley magistrates court soon.. whitty hancock ferguson and vallance… he is alleging fraud… he also has masses of evidence to support that… in it there is evidence of viruses not being contagious.. they have no digestive system..they cannot exist outside the body. if you go online type in The Bernician and the deception of virology you will see it there…. this is a large gravy train..it needs to be derailed.
look online rockefeller jabbing all the soldiers..mandated… and millions of them dying in the second world war.7 died in the doctors office as soon as they were jabbed..relatives told they died in action. .more died from his vaxx than in the war.. left over vaccine went to the public.EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE like now rockefellers own the medical industrial complex and now we have EXPERIMENTAL JABS AGAINST OUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND VIOLATION OF THE NUREMBURG CODE.
Why arent people speaking out about this…there is just a scam to panic people into getting a jab…it is not a vaccine..its gene therapy and for what? to turn us into genetically modified humans …as Moderna puts it ..software for life…and what does all this do to your immune system? it destroys it.
look at Daily Expose to see what the government isn’t telling you. principia scientifica too
What makes this UK view “grim” in the first place? I guess this is because it means no school = no childcare. I’d say kids being educated outside of school is probably a good idea in order to disrupt the sausage machine and develop individuals who can actually think for themselves.
If you knew that just one positive (true or false) could have your child’s entire class sent home, would you bother sending them back? I wouldn’t. I wonder how many parents have just given up on their kids getting a normal uninterrupted education?