Today Prog Covers Homeschooling

But they had an ex teacher on who advised against it. Too difficult he said. No doubt his failings as a teacher would be exposed in a one to one setting whilst in a classroom it is less obvious. The message was clear: don't try this at home.

He opened his comments by referring to those who homeschool as 'white middle class'. The sneer in his voice was barely concealed. The underclass use it to obviate prosecution for truancy and he was concerned that if a child is not registered by the educational authorities they can escape with only a few inspections a year or in more severe cases once a month. The implications were clear. He wanted legislation to deal with the errant parents but we all know how it would be used: to harrass homeschoolers who have the effrontery to question the educational system devised by their superiors to brainwash - sorry, educate their children.

Homeschooling and the exponential growth therof is an open rebuke of the failed flawed and compromised not to say atrocious State system. They won't brook it.

In Germany homeschooling is illegal. One man who attempted it had to flee over the border to escape the pursuing authorities who jail offenders. Ve have vays of making you conform. I rather think the ex teacher might have some sympathy with such a system.