Increasing numbers of parents are exercising the option laid down in the 1944 Education Act to educate their children ' otherwise ' than at school.
Eileen Totten visits several families where children are taught by the parents at home and talks to them about their reasons for turning away from the system; how they organise their time at home, if indeed they organise it at all; and how they feel they benefit. And she assesses the attitudes of the Education Authorities to them... Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham