Home schooling helps school stats in Britain, some say

The number of parents home schooling their children has increased by at least 800% within five years in some parts of Britain, as growing evidence emerges that some schools have encouraged it as a way of improving ratings for truancy and educational performance. The highest increase in Britain has been recorded in Lancashire, where 567 children are now home schooled compared with 61 five years ago. Education Otherwise, an organization which offers advice to parents wanting to educate their children at home, claims the numbers may be because some children never start school in the first place and are not on local authority records. Read the article in The Independent online.