Home Education is not a 'bloody' System in the first place, Emma.

That is the WHOLE point!

It has not (yet) been taken over by 'Those who MUST be Obeyed', but they're working on it...

Soon, NO child will be able to live the life their parents, or the child themselves may want.

We will ALL have been taken over by the State, who will dictate how we must all live our lives!

There will be no Freedom in Education, no Freedom of Thought, or Freedom of Speech!

Ha!!! Some who deem themselves Socialists, in this thread have already made sure that I lost mine on the BBC board...and they're pretty determined to make sure that others lose theirs, as they seek to control, control, control....

READ that Freedom of Education magazine link there...and then know that the children who produced it, two sisters and their brother, now all fully grown up, were home educated by their mother and father, in France. The parents were sickened at what was happening in their local schools, sickened by much of the way British society was going, so...they moved to France. Their father built their house for them, the children helped. They each had their own 'garden' which they designed and maintained themselves. The young lad planted his own orchard. They spent their days reading masses of books, creating many things, working within their local community, being a help to that community...They are all self-sufficient, kind, suportive of each other...an incredibly close family.

Wendy now lives in London with her boyfriend. She has a lively and lovely mind, one that thrives on knowledge....

And you people want to stop anyone else from having that kind of 'education'....? It is an Education of Life! Millions of times better than anything they'd have been offered at their local school.

Wendy and her family also realise that many children, many people love schools, can see nothing wrong with them. They would never dream of interfering in the choice of those people to send their children to school...and yet...some of those 'school driven' people are trying to INSIST that we educate OUR children THEIR way!

PAH! That stinks!