I wish the very best of luck to Brian Morton (“A class of his own”, 14 February) on his journey of home-schooling with his son. We took the same, somewhat momentous, decision with our eldest daughter, then aged five, 20 years ago – and continued the process with her two younger siblings.Sceptics insisted we should “network” as much as possible with other home-schoolers, to avoid socialisation problems. Our experience in this line fell largely into two categories. On the one hand, groups of “wholemeal” mothers who packed carrot-stick snacks (chocolate buttons being banned); on the other hand, groups where nattering parents flatly refused to acknowledge the state of anarchy raging about them – extolling the virtues of “liberating creativ