The valuable life lessons from home schooling | Letters

Dr Richard House on the benefits of educating children outside a formal school system and Claire Richardson on how her children have thrived from being ‘unschooled’

Your balanced interview with Anna Dusseau on home schooling was a pleasure to read (The teacher who decided to ‘unschool’ her own children, 4 August). Dusseau highlights why ever more families (over 50,000 children at the last count) are rejecting institutional schooling for home education – not least, “forced learning” in schools, the coercion of the national curriculum and the test- and results-driven English schooling system.

Research evidence shows that home-educated children achieve substantially better outcomes than the mainstream. Even more importantly, as Dusseau says, children are more able to discover “who they really are, and what they want to do in life”, as opposed to them having to develop a “false self” just to survive at the hands of a schooling system that is stultified by the soulless audit culture.

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