Letters to Independent.ie

Your articles re one-in-five children losing interest in school, and the clamping down on funding of private schools, leads me to share with your readers one option they might not have considered — that of home-schooling.

It’s the ultimate private school. Yes, it’s legal. It’s even constitutional. Yes, it’s very possible to do even without being a teacher yourself.

Yes, your children will have social skills (actually, whisper it softly, even better social skills than if they were at school, because they’ll be mixing with a wide variety of people, not just age-peers and one adult).

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