Home Education on the News

‘Huge’ rise in home education in Lancashire: "THERE has been a “huge” increase in the number of parents shunning Lancashire’s schools and educating their children at home. New figures reveal the number of youngsters on the county’s home education register has more than doubled since 2000 — with bullying increasingly cited as the reason."

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Bullying means rise in home learning: PARENTS of both bullying victims and expelled bullies are turning to home schooling in a bid to salvage an education for their children. [...]One mother said her 14-year-old - who has autistic spectrum disorder - had been subjected to a decade of physical and mental attacks, which left him reclusive and on anti-depressant drugs."

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We Lock Our Kids Away From Society in Schools ... Prisoners of the System: "Our children are the most vulnerable part of our society, and yet we lock them away from society in these educational institutions. We suppress their natural desire to explore and learn in favour of a rigid curriculum that makes them a prisoner of their own education instead of an interested participant. Schools at 16 still want children to put their hand up when they want to go to the toilet, which is a basic human function. Then they let the children leave into an adult world and expect them to have an adult's understanding of the world, which they don't."

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Some parents try to mask children’s school absence: "while many parents educate children at home for right and proper reasons, there are others who are masking pupil absence from school – or any other form of education – by claiming to be home educators."

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