Home Education Takes off

The number of children educated at home in Britain has almost doubled in the last five years. Parental concerns about poor discipline, bullying and amoral sex education are causing many more parents to take advantage of their legal right to educate their children at home, rather than send them to school. Between 1999 and 2004, the number of home-educated 5–16 year-olds has shot up from 12'000 to 21'000. Home-schoolers reckon that by 2015, around 150'000 children could be educated at home, equivalent to 1 child in 30.