About HE UK

This website is based on the following principles.

• All children have the right to a suitable education 1
  
  
• Since education is a function of parenting, it follows that parents, not the state, are responsible for a child’s education. 2
  
  
• People should not require permission or licence to exercise their human right to parent their children. We therefore oppose the principle of compulsory registration to home educate.
  
  
• We affirm the right of families, including their children, to privacy and oppose the intrusion of home visits without just cause. 3
  
  
• A child’s education is suitable if it:
  
  
• “Primarily equips a child for life within the community of which he [or she] is a member rather than the way of life in the country, as long as it does not foreclose the child's option in later years to adopt some other form of life if he [or she] wishes to do so”. 4
  
  
• Since all children are unique, and since there is no universally agreed pedagogy, we oppose any imposed curricula, ie National Curricula or other ‘standardised’ concept of what a suitable education should look like.
  
  
• While we recognise it is the duty of parents to ensure their children are suitably educated, we also hold that education without the consent of the child is futile. Therefore, any form of imposed education, cannot be ‘efficient’. Therefore, the form and content of education should be with the active consent of the child. 5
  
  
• Everyone has the right to hold and express their own beliefs, providing they are worthy of respect in a liberal democracy. Following from this, children have the right of access to all suitable age appropriate information and to live free from indoctrination. 6
  
  
• Personal respect is a fundamental right, and we therefore oppose discrimination on any grounds including; race, colour, ethnicity, gender, sex, disability or religion. 7
  
  
• All persons have the right not to be assaulted, we therefore oppose all forms of corporal punishment. 8

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