Tens of thousands of children across the UK are home schooled. Brian Morton gives a personal account of the dilemmas and anxieties facing parents who choose this option
When our son was being badly bullied at school we made the momentous, life-changing decision to take matters into our own hands and teach him at home.We live in a rural area of Scotland where the schooling choices are very limited. We felt there was an absence of any spiritual depth in the schooling our son was receiving. There was a level of multiculturalism in the curriculum admirable in itself, but ungrounded in any consistent moral teaching.So our 10-year-old now begins his day with the Rosary and spends half an hour meditating at some point during the morning, with lessons ending at lunchtime. He has a natural abilit
12 February 2015, The Tablet
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