July 2009

  • We have seen the end of the Badman review into whether home educators are using home education as a cover for child abuse -a persecution by false allegation amounting to harassment and slander against us, surely?
  • We have seen the resultant admission in the review report that figures do not support this false perception perpetrated upon us. 
  • We have seen, nevertheless, manipulation of those figures to give the opposite impression from the truth for political purposes in an outright attack by government officials upon citizens of the country they serve.

It turns out that what this means is that we are now in a position to experience the truth that there are "lies, damned lies and statistics." The worst of these might be statistics for the false impression of truth and serious research they convey and the way they can be manipulated to misrepresent the facts. Take the Badman Home Education Review statistics on EHE and child abuse …

 

Contents:

  1. Bad Press and Statistics
    1. SEN
    2. Routine Referral
    3. Ignorance and Prejudice
  2. DCSF/Badman Manipulating Figures
    1. Analysis:
  3. The Press
    1. Letter: Summary re Press and the Review
  4. What is it all about then?

 

 

Bad Press and Statistics

The whole story…