The thing that worries me most about home schooling is the need for science education, which involves expensive equipment and has safety implications which could not be met at home. And it is a subject which is needed in the modern world. I suppose the same problems would arise with other practical subjects such as metalwork.

There is also the suspicion that a deliberate avoidance of science may be one of the causes of home schooling where religion lies behind it. That worries me.

Penny