Is Home Education Wise?

From the Sunday Times:

"For the growing number of parents who teach their children at home, part of the pay-off for opting out of formal education is a stretch of golden afternoons, when lessons can be taken in the garden and there are no pesky tests to take the shine off the summer.

The novelist Michelle Magorian, who for the last nine years has taught her son at home, freely admits that one reason she turned her back on schooling was her alarm at the way the system examines pupils almost to destruction."

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