Parents who homeschool their kids replace 8+ hours of bus time, home room, large classes, and general instruction, with a few intense & personalized hours of tutoring in the context of the home & family, leaving room for extensive reading, play, travel, and creative exploration.

Home educated children develop socially in a different way to schooled children. They spend more time in their families and they tend to spend time in age-mixed groups.A group of 30 age-matched peers is only a thing because of school, it's not an ideal. 5/

Ultimately home education is a fascinating insight into how different education could be, and how children learn when they aren't forced. If you are lucky enough to work with a home educating family, go in with no assumptions and you'll learn loads. Prepare to be challenged.10/

Don't think I've felt as strongly about a Bake Off contestant as I do Nellie since Dame Nadiya herself. Give her all the books and shows! #GBBO

Nelly is an icon and one of the funniest people to ever step foot in the tent, she deserved better #GBBO #bakeoff

Someone had better get Nelly her own tv show immediately. She’s THE most lovely person ❤️ The world needs more Nelly #GBBO

Dispatches can reveal how King Charles and Prince William are making millions from the taxpayer. In a joint investigation with The Times and The Sunday Times we have uncovered lucrative deals with the armed forces, schools and even the NHS.

It’s been two days since Channel 4 Dispatches and The Times and The Sunday Times’s investigative team reported that King Charles and Prince William are secretly making millions from the NHS, armed forces and UK charities, and not one member of the royal rota has published proper follow up coverage.

When Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza, the world wouldn’t believe it and Israel blamed a misfired rocket from Hamas… Israel has now destroyed all 36 hospitals in Gaza including its largest medical facility the al-Shifa Hospital… THIS IS A GENOCIDE...🇵🇸💔

Feels like the media narrative post budget has now entirely focused on farmers. Meanwhile the two child benefit cap currently affects nearly 2 million children. Child poverty isn’t just a statistic – it’s a crisis. A crisis of political choice. Crisis of clothing, heat & food.

VOTE SARAH AND VITO

@_rubberbaron Jeremy Corbyn Just how is welfare crippling the country

Chris and Dianne have achieved something no other couple on #strictly have. It is simply breathtaking to watch him glide over the dance floor with no reference. Such an emotional routine and nothing short of extraordinary #StrictlyComeDancing

Angela Rayner has given the go-ahead for the Marks and Spencer Art Deco building on Oxford Street, London to be demolished and turned into a characterless, dreary and environmentally wasteful rebuild. Architecturally elegant buildings like this should be adapted, not destroyed.

Vito must be one of the most successful choreographers that’s ever graced the #Strictly dance floor - this is his 3rd year & his 3rd final - extraordinary talent & a bundle of energy

Bloody Hell! This hideous news story is, again, focusing on #HomeEducation. Home Ed didn't fail that poor child, the Family Court & the LA did. Both my kids were Home Ed for a few years & it was one of our best ever times. I worked closely with the LA & we had a ball!

At the moment, there’s a LOT of ignorant comment about home education from people who clearly don’t know much about it. Do we really want to live in an authoritarian state? #homeeducation #homeschooling

Sara Sharif was not killed because of home education. Sara Sharif was murdered because her known violent and abusive father had custody, and no one followed up reports of her abuse. She was murdered in AUGUST - being at school wouldn't have prevented that.

Home Education has become the Government’s convenient scapegoat for systemic failures. Instead of weaponising home education to distract from institutional negligence, how about addressing the multi-agency failings that cost Sara Sharif her life? What difference would it have