The clumsy title of this blog is actually deliberate, as I wish to compare two cases of children not attending school.

Many of you will have seen the headlines a few weeks back about ideas to stop benefits of parents whose children consistently truant.  This is not a political blog, and I'm not going to debate the proposal - which is nothing more than an idea at this point anyway.  However, it made me think about this in contrast to children who never go to school - home schooled children.

I ha...
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