I don’t think they had any ideas about how good home education could be in the respects of what you’ve mentioned here. He seemed surprised when people contacted him about the communities and groups etc.Going back to the Home schooling...I Home educate mine and can promise they get a lot of socialisation, to the point we have to cut back sometimes to get any formal learning done. We have sports days, we have end of year shows, we have proms and Home ed dances and parties. We go on home ed holidays, forest schools, workshops, there are even home ed residentials. We have the majority of things people say our kids might 'miss out on'.
I very much doubt he is going to have the time and commitment needed to become part of the Home ed community though! My days are spent going from one thing to another, making sure groups are running, paying for groups, researching other things they can do, field trips, lesson plans. I don't see how he's going to have the time for that, for making sure she can forge friendships with other children, if he's also going to be going from one place to another as much as he does .
Home ed does have its place, and I seriously eye roll every time I hear 'but what about socialisation?' yet I can't see how this will work. If you are going to do Home ed, you have to accept it is going to be a full time job, and for a lot of people, on top of a paid one.
Ps I only joined tattle recently while reading the bbc presenter thread but then came across this. I'm finding it very hard to put my phone down!
I think more like they thought they could shove a few worksheets or writing practice in front of Indie a few times a week and call it Education because she is young. He is not intelligent enough to realise what children do in the early years help build their foundations and understanding to learn in the future.