{"id":1056796,"date":"2021-11-26T09:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1056796"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:29:00","slug":"major-rise-in-homeschooling-in-england-over-philosophical-and-health-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-rise-in-homeschooling-in-england-over-philosophical-and-health-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Rise in Homeschooling in England Over &#039;Philosophical&#039; and Health Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-rise-in-homeschooling-in-england-over-philosophical-and-health-reasons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1056796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1230549403-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">England has seen a significant rise in the number of children being homeschooled over the past academic year, with parents citing concerns over health, as well as philosophical and lifestyle choices, as being the main reasons for taking their kids out of school.<\/p>\n<p>A survey from the&nbsp;Association of Directors of Children\u2019s Services (ADCS)&nbsp;published on Wednesday, detailed the increasing popularity of elective home education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/adcs.org.uk\/assets\/documentation\/ADCS_EHE_Survey_2021_Report_FINAL.pdf\">survey<\/a> found that the number of children who were being educated at home at some point during the 2020\/2021 academic year increased by 34% over the year before. In all, the overall settled rise of total children being homeschooled at any one time is estimated at around 7% in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The major increase in the cumulative number of children being educated at home, as well as the discrepancy between that increase and the overall increase in the number of children being homeschooled, was attributed to so-called \u2018churn\u2019, with kids being taken out of school for a limited period of time, but then returned later on in the year.<\/p>\n<p>When councils were asked for the top three reasons given by parents and carers for opting for homeschooling, the number one reason cited was concerns regarding the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The second most popular reason for homeschooling was \u201cphilosophical or lifestyle choice\u201d. This was followed by more general concerns about the physical and emotional health of the child.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation lamented the fact that local authorities lack the power to interfere with certain aspects of homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing more families refusing to engage and quoting parental guidance regarding rights to educate their child and a lack of powers for [local authorities] to enforce cooperation and information sharing to meet their statutory duty,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The report also demands that mandatory regular home visits be implemented \u201cso the child is seen\u201d and to \u201cobserve the work taking place\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8362573099415\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stop Handing Out Taxpayer Cash to Groups Pushing \u2018White Privilege\u2019 Myth, Demands Tory MP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3pyTtFmXX\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z3pyTtFmXX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1384071018373918720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The rise in homeschooling comes during a period of increasing politicization of Britain\u2019s education system.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the National Education Union\u2013 Britain\u2019s largest teaching union\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/04\/teachers-union-schools-need-activist-training-to-combat-whiteness\/\">called for<\/a> \u201cactivist training\u201d on issues such as \u201cwhiteness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Critical Race Theory-style recommendation stated that there is \u201csilence around British imperialism and racism\u201d, and that there is an&nbsp;\u201curgent\u201d need to \u201cdecolonise\u201d all phases of education in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The union has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/05\/soviet-indoctrination-teach-white-privilege-to-toddlers-unions-demand\/\">demanded<\/a>&nbsp;that toddlers receive lessons on so-called \u201cwhite privilege\u201d, something which the then&nbsp;chairman of the House of Commons Education select committee, Robert Halfon MP, compared to \u2018Soviet indoctrination session[s]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/20\/issues-facing-working-class-white-children-are-unfashionable-and-taboo-as-they-fall-behind-minorities-in-testing\/\">report<\/a> published last year found that white working-class children have been systematically disadvantaged by the British education system, with white working-class boys, in particular, being most disadvantaged out of any demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Education has also become a political battlefront in the United States, notably in&nbsp;Loudoun County, Virginia where parents have called for a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/06\/10\/parents-bill-of-rights-calls-on-loudoun-county-school-board-to-scrap-critical-race-theory\/\">Parents Bill of Rights<\/a>\u2018 in response to the district injecting tenets of the far-left Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the backlash against the leftist indoctrination, President Joe Biden\u2019s Justice Department began investigating local parents who complain at school board meetings as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/21\/ag-merrick-garland-admits-he-took-word-of-national-school-boards-association-to-target-parents-as-domestic-terrorists\/\">domestic terrorists<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.078125\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;White Privilege&#8217;? Working-Class White Kids MOST Disadvantaged in UK Schools as System Prioritises Minorities <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/94S0uEmAyt\">https:\/\/t.co\/94S0uEmAyt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1307692994175279104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England has seen a significant rise in the number of children being homeschooled over the past academic year, with parents citing concerns over health, as well as philosophical and lifestyle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}