Home Education: School is (always) out for us

Not all children go to school. Some are taught by their parents at the kitchen table, says John Hearne

Five days a week, the mother sits with the children at the kitchen table and works through a full curriculum

SORCHA Arnold is learning Swedish. Her father, Dan, who gave her books and internet resources, says of the home-schooled 14-year-old: “We would never say, ‘Tell us why you want to learn Swedish’. That’s none of our business. But if, for her own reasons, she wants to learn it, I’m delighted that we’re able to afford her that opportunity.”