FrontPage Individual Letters to KCC 21012012 CM email to KCC
Dear
Thank you for your email. While I do appreciate that some parents are very capable of providing a good education at home for their children, I was very concern on the high numbers we currently have in Kent that were on our official listing and more dismay that we do not know the actual figures at present.
You may have a set agenda for teaching your child, but each parent is different and while some children are getting a broader education, some are not especially those from migrant families.
I understand that there is help from the local authorities to provide computer equipment and books etc, but maybe as you rightly pointed out we have not done enough to communicate this to home educators.
If you wish, I would be happy to visit you and see at first hand how home education works. This was a report presented to members to note but as an authority there is more we need to know from home educators in helping us to make the right decisions going forward and of course providing the necessary support and advice.
Best Regards
Cllr. Michael Jarvis
KCC Member for Margate & Cliftonville