Home Schooling - are you for or against?

I think the biggest issue with home schooling, in the UK is that it’s not really monitored sufficiently, from a safeguarding perspective.

I agree that for some children home schooling is much better for them.

I could never have home schooled any of my own children. I cannot think of anything worse tbh.

So long as the parents ensure they hook up with other home schooled children, do combined trips, have their children join some outside interest groups, ie Guides, Scouts, clubs and ensure when teaching secondary school children that this s truly what these young want.

Given our rather limited education system if these home schooled children wish to partake in more formal education at 6th form or Uni, parents will have to ensure that their children are able to pass the requisite entrance criteria.

Also, school is about so much more than formal learning, they learn to mix, socialise, learn competition is a good thing, learn to win and lose gracefully.

It may work for some, but not for me, I’m afraid.

Same for me. In some countries, home schooling is properly monitored, and the children have to follow the same Curriculum and take the same exams. That means that at secondary stage, parents have to group up to find qualified teachers for some subjects, or pay individually.

Children who are homeschooled in the UK are not monitored-and it means that those children will find it almost impossible to go into Further Education, university and therefore, so many professions.

This is from a US article but you may still like to read it Claremont.

I do however think there is a big difference between elective home educating and home education being essentially "forced" on someone - maybe out of desperation.
Anyway, here's a snippet:

What percentage of homeschooled students go to college?

The estimate is 50% of homeschooled students go on to attend college. Clearly, many negative homeschooling statistics are a myth, as there is no difference between public school percentages and homeschooling.

What’s more:

96% of colleges report having at least 1 to 200 homeschooled students.

Many are wondering are homeschooled students successful.

Homeschooling vs public education statistics show the percentage of homeschooled students that go to college and graduate is higher than that of their public school peers. It stands at 66.7%, while 57.5% of public school pupils finish college.

^Here is the article - all sources are at the end:^

markinstyle.co.uk/homeschooling-statistics/#:~:text=Many%20are%20wondering%20are%20homeschooled,public%20school%20pupils%20finish%20college.