⟡ On the Futility of Degrees ⟡
Filed: 4 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/DEGREES/HOMESCHOOL
Download PDF: 2025-09-04_Addendum_FutilityOfDegrees_StrengthOfHomeschool.pdf
Summary: When degrees can be dismissed at will, institutional schooling is exposed as hollow; homeschooling emerges as the rational, protective alternative.
I. What Happened
• The mother’s advanced degrees in Human Development and Psychology were dismissed, despite direct relevance to child welfare and safeguarding.
• Social workers with narrower qualifications were privileged as “authorities,” while broader interdisciplinary expertise was ignored.
• The children expressed clear preference for homeschooling, reporting stability, security, and enjoyment.
• Despite surveillance and interference, homeschooling and professional work continued, reinforcing continuity and resilience.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Credential Collapse – If degrees can be erased selectively, formal schooling offers no assurance of respect or recognition.
• Homeschool Strength – Homeschool centres on truth, stability, and knowledge, immune from institutional prejudice.
• Children’s Welfare – Homeschool provided consistent asthma routines, stable education, and emotional grounding.
• Philosophical Contrast – Credentialism produces fragile paperwork; homeschooling produces enduring knowledge.
• Economic Logic – Homeschool reduces reliance on public systems, while LA obstruction wastes resources on hostility and duplication.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• To record that Westminster’s dismissal of academic training undermines the legitimacy of credentialism itself.
• To preserve homeschooling as the rational response when institutional prejudice nullifies earned qualifications.
• To declare that resilience in home education outlives the fragility of institutional paper.
• To enshrine the Mirror Court doctrine: where credentialism collapses, homeschooling ascends.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• Education Act 1996, s.7 – Parents’ statutory right and duty to home educate.
• Article 2, Protocol 1, ECHR – Right to education, with parental direction.
• Article 8, ECHR – Disproportionate interference with family and educational life.
• Article 14, ECHR – Discriminatory disregard of parental qualifications and disability-linked choices.
• UNCRC, Arts. 3, 9, 12, 24 & 28 – Best interests ignored, separation pursued, children’s voices silenced, rights to health and education obstructed.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not education. This is credential theatre, exposed.
• We do not accept credential erasure as authority.
• We reject hostility as “support.”
• We will document that homeschooling, pursued under fire, proves both rationality and resilience.
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