Category: home education

Parents Home Schooling Children to Avoid ‘Inappropriate Sex Education’: MP

Parents are turning to home education because they fear their children are being exposed to information about adult sexual acts in schools, according to an MP. On Monday, MP Andrea Jenkyns told Parliament that she has heard from parents in her Morley and Outwood constituency in Yorkshire “who feel they’ve got no choice but to…


School Board Elections Are Dirty – But They Don’t Have to Be

Commentary School board elections this year were more organized—and dirtier—than ever. Teachers’ unions ran sophisticated campaigns to elect slates of “progressive” trustees, complete with vitriolic attack websites, as angry parents began to organize in response to progressive excesses. Stakes are high: School boards control billions in public spending, and can indoctrinate children with their chosen…


‘Woke’ Gender Ideology in British Schools Nudging More Parents to Choose Home Education

The fear that educational material pushing ‘extreme gender ideology’ is indoctrinating their children could be nudging more parents to opt for home education. Yesterday British MPs discussed how materials are being flooded into schools by external providers who are exposing children to “deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit, and damaging materials” in the name of…


The Five Pillars of Home Education

The five pillars of parenting, which I write about in Extraordinary Parenting: The Essential Guide to Parenting and Educating From Home, help all parents, whether they are educating their children at home full-time, homeschooling due to the current pandemic, caring for toddlers or preschool-age children, or simply want to support their children’s learning outside school hours….