What is the likely effect going to be on my friends and extended family?
Most people are badly informed about both the legality of home education and the day to day practicalities of how home education works. dispite this, for reasons that remain unclear, some people react very negatively to the news that someone close to them intends to home educate. During my research for my first book (home based education 1) I found a clear pattern to the reactions of members of extended families. Often members of your close extended family will assume that home education is difficult, expensive legally suspect and unlikely to produce confident well balanced and properly educated young adults. Overall they are likely to be fearful for your children’s future. yet the reaction of people close to families who home educate seems to go further than simple concern. This, sometimes quite vehamont reaction, has led many who home educate to conclude that their rejection of school is taken to be a challenge or rejection to the parenting decissions of close family and friends. In
