2025-05-13.
We have reported on this Bill back in February, but it hasn't gone away.
Since time immemorial, parents have been responsible for bringing up their children, because for better or worse the family is the bedrock upon which the human race has depended, and has thrived.
Yes, other arrangements are possible but the human bond between child and parent is the one thing that gives the child the confidence to explore, to grow, to learn, to make mistakes safely, and to recover and learn from them.
The State wants your child for indoctrination ("Climate emergency", "Mad Bad Vlad", "All-powerful State", Money is controlled by Central Banks on behalf of he People, "MPs work for their constituents", "The Courts deliver Justice", Central control is best, etc), which is why we have compulsory schooling. Another reason is that the State wants parents out at work, not at home nurturing children - production is all. Schools may be many things but they are not a substitute for loving parents, however good they may be.
The difference is that parental love is an unconditional and possibly life-long commitment, where the buck always stops with the parent. The school's only obligation is to those who fund them, and to the law of the land (which takes precedence). The school's needs may not align with those of their pupils and their parents.
State schools in particular are of necessity a one-size-fits-all type of institution, run not by parental love but by rules and regulations, serving not the parents but the State which funds them. Until state funding follows the parents this will not change, but don't hold your breath.
Indeed State schools are essentially primarily run by an artificial intelligence codified today as rules on paper, tomorrow within an AI.
Jesus is recorded in the Bible neatly encapsulating the difference between love and law when he was asked what was the "greatest commandment", and his answer cut to the heart of it.
"If passed in its current form, this Bill ... will change the relationship between family and the state for ever"
Michael Charles reviews the pernicious effects of this Bill for TCW Defending Freedom.
