This is not exactly a brilliant piece of publicity for home education:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3453184/Theresa-Riggi-banned-her-kids-from-playing-with-other-children.html
Before anybody says anything silly; no, I do not believe that this is typical of British home education. It might not exactly endear the practice though, to those who know nothing about it but what they see in the papers.
Home education case
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