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Monday, April 02, 2007
 

Homeschooling attacked in UK


An editorial from a Teachers trade journal attacking homeschooling in the UK. They cite anecdotal evidence with no comparison to the abuse and lack of learning in government schools.
One in four parents who home-educate children provides little or no teaching
As many as 35,000 home-schooled children are not receiving even a basic education from their parents, according to inspectors, prompting calls for a change in the law.
Despite the stereotype of creative middle-class parents educating their children at the kitchen table, a quarter of home-schooled children are doing little or no work, officials claimed.
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The article you cite has been pulled to pieces here:

http://irdial.com/blogdial/?p=668

It is part of a concerted campaign to bring in new bad law governing Home Schooling in the UK.
 
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