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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Children's Wellbeing etc Bill. Increasing numbers of Peers are raising concerns about the Bill but this Government has deaf ears. It is a wise leader who adapts to be accepted and a fool who will not bend. Home Educators are not he only ones affected, you could be too. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Freedom: the ability to be who you are and live as you please. Caring freedom, the ability to be who you are and live as you please but wanting to be a valuable member of society. Home education grows future heroes #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Today's treat was watching two little girls taking part in hobby horse gymkhanas. They have never been to school and are the youngest of a large family of home educated children, every one of whom is different. Home education, inspiring individuals to follow their dreams. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

If your children are mid exams, remember to tell them that there is no such thing as failure, there is their best and pride in what they can achieve. We cannot all get A* in everything, mor crucially, the World needs talented 'D's as well. All children have value. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Mid GCSE, paper twos up to 18th June. Home educating parents learn so much from their children, including GCE exam questions! Inspiring the next generation to love learning for its own sake. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Pick up the nearest object and your child's whole education can come from that. A rock, Lego brick or tattered teddy, each one can inspire learning. How was it made, from what, where did the parts come from, what is it like there....rabbit holes galore! Home education works. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Every child deserves unconditional support; never take away their firsts, no matter how long ago we experienced them ourselves as each one is part of wonder. Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Almost half way through GCSE exams and I have lost track of how many groan producing chemistry jokes I have heard, every single one a joy from a child who could not grasp it only months ago. Patience, love and reassurance. Home education, finding children's super powers #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I was home educating a grandchild when I first learnt any meaningful geology, sparked by a course he wanted to take. That 'child' became a geology fellow and my collection of rock samples runs to several hundreds. Home educate and be inspired by your child. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Tectonics: Stand across a divergent plate; inspire your child. Or, use layer cake! Slice across layers, demonstrate converging, diverging and transform. Baking (maths, literacy and chemistry) and geology plus treats. #EducationOtherwise Home education, makes learning fun and tasty!

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

There are so may images which say 'wonderful home education to me and this is one of them, kindly donated for 'Education Otherwise: Fifty Years of Home Education'. I love the supportive and restful calm of these happy children. copies from educationotherwise.org #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Home education; learning with your child. Grandson's subjects of choice are very different to mine but I find myself increasingly able to answer questions about complex scientific points which he has learnt but I never did. That is how home education can work. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Next week sees the start of GCSE exams. Already, young people are anxious and stressed. Making young people sit a large number of exams all at once is not reflective of University or real life. Is it any wonder that our young people are the least happy in Europe? #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Criticising a dyspraxic child's writing and insisting that they can do better is cruel. Watching a very bright 16 year old trying to write, but unable to control a pen's movement, brings home just how crucial home education is to our SEN children. Caring for the individual. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Tomorrow, 1st May, the House of Lords debates the Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Several senior barristers (David Wolfe KC advised) have advised organisations that it is able to be challenged in judicial review if it goes ahead as it is. Tell Peers how it affects you. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Imagine... no bullying, no peer pressure, no having to fit learning into half hour or hourly slots, no loud bells, no 'isolation', no putting your hand up to go to the toilet, no scratchy uniform and no restriction on what you learn. Home educated children don't have to imagine. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Small children are innately honest and wise about their own needs. Home educators listen to their children and those children gain maturity, self motivation and independence as a result. The right path for a child is their path, not one set by others. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A wonderful 16 year old, at a prestigious ballet school, taking a degree and enormously talented, told me how her old school staff told her that she would never make anything of herself if she 'failed' maths. Home education mended her spirit. Nobody had the right to break it. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

After over 40 years' of home educating children and grandchildren, I am starting again with A levels in 'boy's' subjects which I was not allowed to learn at school. How very far we have come in understanding that every child is an individual with individual education needs. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Debate, Lords, 1st May. If you know a peer who cares about family rights, the right to privacy and parents' right to choose the best education for their child, contact hem and ask them to vote for amendments which make it palatable. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Granddad at Zoo today with grandchild. Unknown boy aged 7-8 asked him a question. When he got home, he told me about it and commented "I think he must have been home educated as he gave a good account of himself and was articulate". Raising children to be their best self. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Home educated children become doctors, gardeners, ballet dancers, scientists, pilots, lawyers, geologists, florists, actors and every type of role possible. What they do not often become is unemployable, or unable to be of their best. It works. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Learning: take Easter eggs (please take them!); home educated children have learnt why they are symbols, what of and whether that is positive; how they are made, how many are made and transported, whether they are good value for money and much else. Happy engaged and fulfilled. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

'Formal teaching': must legally provide set information to groups at set times, in set ways with set expectations. Home education: Must legally suit the individual child's age, ability, aptitude and any SEN. A big ask giving flexibility and freedom. Speak out to save it! #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In 2012 I started to record data relating to numbers of home educated children. Since about 2017, every year the press has claimed that numbers have 'doubled in the last five years'. Perhaps a home educated child should teach them some basic statistics. #EducationOtherwise

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Rebecca Silverwood @beccasilverwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I work with people aged 22-60+. This is what real life is. I can’t think of anything worse as an adult to wearing a shirt and tie and having to “socialise” with a whole lot of people accidentally born between September and August in the year I was born. Urghh. And what grown woman ever wears a tie?

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The garden is full of children hunting papier-mâché Easter eggs, older ones leaving the easily spotted eggs for the tinies to find. Children giving us all lessons in true 'citizenship' by caring for those less robust than themselves. Growing in love. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Many children due to take GCSE and A levels are ill currently. Stress lowers immunity and illness strikes. Why oh why do schools and exam boards not stagger exams to help those children to feel less stressed. Let children be young; they have only one chance to be so. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Home educating children is often about learning things yourself. it does not require genius to educate, it requires love, commitment and enthusiasm. Any adult who can read (or listen to) and assimilate information can educate. I know. I am that woman. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

What is numeracy? Do children need t be able to do complex algebraic equations? Some do, but most will never need to do so. Set curriculums teach to a standard expectation whereas the home educator's provision is individualised to the child. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Watching a documentary about the Holocaust I learnt new facts and was reminded of an old one... 75% of Dutch Jews were murdered. It started by putting them on a register. Mandatory registers for one small sector of society are not things of decency and democracy. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What subjects are most important to home educating families? Happiness, independence, compassion, empathy and being the best self the child can be. Home education grows beautiful children. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Little boy looked up and saw how tired his grandma was "Don't worry Grandma, when I am big I will carry you on my shoulders". That beautiful child had never been exposed to bullies, or fighting to get the biggest share, but is growing n compassion. We need more children like him. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Handwriting is not essential these days as dictation and keyboard skills have overtaken it. Yet we force ever younger children whose hands are not yet ready to write. Look at young adults hand grip to see how that approach has failed. Let them be children. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

People often assume that home education = isolation but actually, research find home educated children to enjoy wide and varied social opportunity. Adults don't spend all day every day with 30 others of the same age and background, neither do home educated children. #Educationotherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Do you love home education? Are you knowledgeable and able to respect confidentiality? Would you like to be considered as a trustee of Education Otherwise? If so, contact wcharleswarner@educationotherwise.org #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Assumptions: unless there is a serious safeguarding risk, others do not know better than a parent about what is right for their child. Home educating parents know this. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill; bulldozed through the Commons with unseemly haste but the Lords is not so easily subdued. Hope in our hearts that peers will be so much more reasonable. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It is such a lovely experience to assess home educated children over several years and watch them grow into independent, happy young adults. Wonderful young people! #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

As the 1980s ended I witnessed my beautiful home educated daughter leaping a hedged, deeply sunken lane (over me). She was on her horse, bareback with hair flying in the wind. That vision captured the very essence of her soul and her freedom to be. Home education: spirit and joy #educationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Home education is about raising REAL people who are beautiful regardless of and because of their individuality. They can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. Government and other detractors, get REAL #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“Real isn’t how you are made it’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” .. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Mothers' day: To all mothers whose child is not with them, or whose chid is too little or disabled to arrange a special surprise. A very happy mothers' day to you. Being loved is still real. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Every Mum and Dad who worries that they are not 'clever enough or 'good enough', is more likely to be an excellent home educator than the very confident, because they care so much. That's education dedication. #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Facts: home educated children are on average, one year ahead of their school based peers; more likely to read a book and more likely to understand politics...less likely to be unemployed as young adults and less likely to commit a crime in their teens. Home education works! #EducationOtherwise

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Wendy Charles-Warner @wendycharleswarner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Friendly GP sees child with a sore throat. Before examining her, GP asks what school she goes to. Suddenly unfriendly GP lectures mother on why home education is a safeguarding risk. It certainly isn't, but the media and Government are othering HE families. Change the narrative #EducationOtherwise

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