Christine Odone wrote an opinion piece in the Spectator before Christmas in the wake of the Sara Sharif murder verdict. Entitled “Sara Sharif’s murder shouldn’t lead to a home-school crackdown”, it is a call not to use this case to target home-schooling families.
In excess of 150,000 children are home-schooled, for many it is a positive choice but for a growing number it is taken as a measure of desperation because mainstream schools can not support our children. These families should not be impacted because of a handful of, albeit awful, cases. Odone calls for the integration of home-schooling into the wider education ecosystem with more support from local authorities, and hybrid models of attendance. It is based on her experience of home-schooling her 6 year old daughter for a few months.
Link: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/home-schooling-is-a-lifeline-for-desperate-parents/
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