Rebekah’s response to the Badman review
When will you leave us?
When will we be free?
How long will we march?
How long will it be?
Badman why won’t you understand?
You think we need your guidelines
You won’t believe we’re right
Please leave us alone
We don’t want a fight
Badman please just listen!
You need us to prove we really are ok
To prevent us from danger
Help our education
Stop us being the stranger
Badman why can’t you see?
You don’t want us to exist
‘Cause we’re not the normal thing
Well we’re sticking with home education
Happiness, Fun, Laughing
Badman hear our protests!
Home education is right for us
And we’re coping just fine
We’re learning everywhere we go
In our own space and time
Badman these are our lives!
But if you won’t leave us!
If we can’t be free!
We’ll march until your walls fall down!
However long it’ll be!
By Rebekah Gibson
Age 13
Proud to have been home educated since birth
Not hidden
This school Teacher of 17 years reckons Rebekah has made her point very well.
Choice is a good thing…why shouldn’t people be allowed to educate their own children? It’s a difficult path, but respect to those that take it, both the parents and the children, who’s powers of poetry in this case must be up there at level 7 or thereabouts.
YAY! Go Rebekah! Very eloquently put! I took my two little boys with me today to A) get my haircut, and B) to give blood and several people asked if Alex (5) was enjoying his holidays/looking forward to going back to school. When he said he was home-educated, they asked questions about it so we were able to say that for us, living our LIVES is our education, including experiences like Mummy going to give blood & getting her hair cut!
Well done and thanks for being a visible face of home-ed! The more of us who stand up to be counted, the more people will see we are NOT anomalies and our children are NOT hidden away!
Arlette x
I want to know if you’re going to set it to music? I love a good protest song