My husband and I read this article too and exchanged one of those ‘Yes we ARE doing the right thing’ looks. Our boys are only 2 and 4 but the decision to home educate was made a long time ago. The world of UK education is just becoming too wierd. We are thinking of making a scrap book of education articles from the Telegraph to read when we get discouraged. People say the strangest things too. This weekend our vicar’s wife told me that the boys needed to get ‘knocked about a bit’ to prepare them for school. It made me wonder what she thought went on in schools - or perhaps she knows better than I do!

Yes, what a bunch of weirdness. Here in the states there is a movement to publicly fund preschool now because fewer parents want to be home with their kids and want to get them into a regimented learning envirnoment as early as possible. Soon we’ll all just hand over our newborns in the maternity ward so they can get a head start in “baby class”. Heaven forbid they should get a sense of themselves before all their peers become their main influence in life. Yikes!

How do you go about starting to plan your kids education at home sound a good idea.

Wow! I thought the US was alone in our challenges with the school system. We spend so much time testing to see what they’ve learned that they rarely get to actually learn anything.

I haven’t been peeking at your blog lately and I’m glad to see the homeschooling is going well. While being home with three little ones can be a challenge, the thought of being up, all dressed and all fed in time to get them to school is worse!