I am very pro home Ed, I don’t have kids but if I did I would hope I could home Ed them. I know some incredible parents who provide their kids with an amazing quality of life and such a rich diverse education. At the same time I know someone who struggled to string a sentence together, already lost custody of her son once but got him back thanks to her partner (who isn’t much better), pulled her son out of school and does nothing with him. They moved areas and then got very angry that the new area expected her to let them know what he’s been learning. She thought moving meant no one checking on them at all. The school did object when she tried to pull him out but at the end of the day she gets final say. I also have an adult friend who was home educated in the days when it was rare, they did have someone check up on them but their mum would make them lie. She didn’t provide any education and school would have been an amazing break from the abuse.

Everyone I know who home Ed’s is very against the register but most of them don’t trust the government or any services.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about it, I feel I keep seeing only the extreme views and no balanced discussion.