UK Home education and suitable education

I wish I could have been home educated. I grew up in the UK and I attended high school in the UK. I had gone to junior college here in the UK too. I moved to the USA for over 16 years as well. I reside back in the UK at present. When I was at high school, the internet wasn’t invented yet.

Here is a segment of info on UK home education.

By law, the parent of every child of compulsory school age must make sure the child receives an education that is ‘efficient, full-time and suitable’.

Efficient education
There is no legal definition of what is considered to be ‘efficient’.

The government’s Department for Education (DfE) suggests that this can be interpreted as meaning “education which achieves what it is intended to achieve”.

I had known from the first year of high school that I would like to have become a small business owner as an adult. Look at the sentence above, in regard to efficient education. I can say without a doubt, that if I had been home educated, I would have attained my goal of becoming a small business owner sooner rather than later in life.

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