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School's at Home

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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

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