Is homeschooling the best option?

Stateofart

The amount of homeschooled children that do not sit final exams is quite staggering, only to then go back into education to take GCSE Maths and Eng in a FE environment, having no social skills to then cope with being back in a classroom.

Zoe02

There is no one size fits all depends on each individual child but to do home schooling properly will take a lot of resources and intentionality.

silvercar

Stateofart said:

The amount of homeschooled children that do not sit final exams is quite staggering, only to then go back into education to take GCSE Maths and Eng in a FE environment, having no social skills to then cope with being back in a classroom.

This is true and one of the reasons I consider home schooling as very much a last resort. However, that homeschooled children have a lower number of exam passes is in part due to the reasons that led to home schooling in the first place. They weren’t in any way an average child to start with - at least for those who couldn’t cope with mainstream schooling. 

Cases where the parents made lifestyle choices not to send their offspring to school, where the offspring would have managed perfectly well in school are more likely to have been deprived of decent exam results by their parents and the life long consequences that  will follow.