Fears About Home Schooling UK #1

By Malgwyn | January 21, 2009

Home education ‘can be cover for abuse and forced marriage’
Reports Alexandra Frean, Education Editor for The Times.
“Thousands of children supposedly educated at home by their parents are at risk of abuse, neglect, forced marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude, the Government said yesterday.
“Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, the Children’s Minister, has ordered a review of the rules covering the estimated 20,000 home-educated children in England and the 20,000 or so labelled as “missing from education”, who have dropped out of school before the age of 16.”
Surely there needs to be protection for children, to make sure they are receiving an education. On the other hand I can appreciate and understand the anxieties being expressed in the comments that follow Frean’s article. Who would want to see happening here what is happening in Germany where home schooling is treated as a crime?

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