"No, the option is there for *everyone*, but it's damned hard!"

No, of course it isn't open to anyone.

Perhaps you should try telling that to a mother on Lupset Estate near Wakefield who, in addition to looking after her family, probably has two or even three jobs to support them. These are the people who, despite a huge fear of their own inadequacies, are grasping the opporunity to become classroom assistants.

So, I maintain that home schooling is elitist and, despite cries of "rubbish", no-one has taken the trouble to tell my why it is not so. So, come on, convince me that it is an option open to anyone and I'll withdraw my comment. Perhaps a long hard look at how 'real' people outside our comfortable middle-class boundaries are obliged to live their lives would be advisable first.