“Home schooling soon to be made illegal” is what you should be understanding.

It’s already so in Germany.

There’s probably an EU regulation, but we haven’t noticed it yet; in due course it will be revealed.

Agree 100%. It’ s a sickening betrayal of children’s innate intelligence, talent and energy.

As for those children who are taken out of school just to work, or to be married off before their teens, the local authorities already know who they are. But they are far too politically correct to admit it.

I got utterly sickened at seeing secondary school pupils set to work to paint posters of bloody windmills, and being told that they were learning physics. What a cruel hoax.

Then I was told “Physics is different things to different people….” by some stupid bint of a headmistress. There is a refusal to accept that anything in life might be quantitative, invariant, rigorous or testable. Until they open their pay-packets of course. No room for interpretation there. A sudden regard for mathematical rigour and orthodoxy come to the fore.

I should point out that the teachers I’ve met are the ones arguing that the school leaving age should be 14. I merely agree with them.

In the day job I occasionally get to see high school textbooks. They’re full of global warming propaganda.

Since “science” lessons are little more than global warming indoctrination (colouring in a poster about walking to school – I kid you not), I think we know the answer to that.

The more teachers I’ve talked to, the more I think we should lower the school leaving age to 14.

Both have been at college since, and the mother has gone on to use the experience to become a highly-valued private tutor.

Could state “education” be a waste of time ?

Alan Douglas