UK: This clampdown on home education doesn’t help children

Carolyne Widow writes at the Guardian: “Yet the Department for Children, Schools and Families plans to introduce a compulsory registration scheme, with every home-educated child being questioned about their education and welfare at least once a year. As a home-educating parent, I will be committing a criminal offence if I don’t register my children, who will have to exhibit proof of learning. This clampdown on home education comes amid a virtual consensus that the target and testing culture in schools has harmed children.”