The meeting looms

Well, we have used up our new arrival grace period and 'the meeting' appears imminent.   Of course, I am talking of the meeting with the representative from THEAC.....

Having received a phone call from a complete stranger who will come to our house, meet the calves and "have a chat" about our programme and our education philosophy.
The question is do I mind? ....hmmm....not sure really.

I am not a lover of regulation and supervision of what I deem basic human rights, the right to freedom, the right to choose, the right to live the way you want.
There is far too much of that in modern life already!

I include the right to take responsibility for your children's education in that. 

But, and it's a big BUT, would I feel the same way if another home educating family had very different views from my own? Would I feel the same way about a very religious family or a very secluded family for example?  

Is regulation in some form necessary?

I'll admit I do not know the answer to this question. I believe children have the right to a quality education. I believe families have a right to privacy.....

I hope that the meeting is about support, providing access for families to the kinds of resources and facilities that schooling families receive. I hope it's not about judgement and results because that is opposite to our philosophy of learning.

The polite and distant stranger merely said she wants to see examples of literacy and numeracy.
There are many....I could literally bury her in a pile of samples of learning and living with literacy and numeracy that are apart of everyday life around here.

Will that be right? Who knows? 
I wonder about her experience? What has she achieved in life that deems her our superior, our assessor?  The whole idea of it makes me uncomfortable.

Still, I shall not put the cart before the horse, we shall wait and see...

And then of course, I will blog about it.