Homeschooling is on the increase. In the UK there has been an increase of at least 61% of children being schooled at home in the last 5 years. In Lancashire the amount of children being taught at home has gone up by 829% since 2002, and in Scotland the amount of homeschooled children has gone up by 39% in the last year. There is a large group of parents choosing to teach their kids in the home for various reasons. It could be because they do not agree with the public school system as it is run. There are parents who educate at home, because they have deaf or otherwise handicapped children. Some parents teach at home for religious reasons, and then again other parents homeschool their children, because they want to do an excellent job, and they don't want to leave that responsibility to an under-paid teacher.

In the last few years the UK has had various difficulties within the educational system. Teaching is a difficult and demanding job. Children are worse behaved now than ever before, and teachers often feel powerless to do much about it. Unfortunately many parents don't know how to discipline their children either, and would rather leave that up to the teacher, thus leaving a negative round about with no place to get off.

In the UK there are no laws that say children cannot be homeschooled, but parents are expected to do a good job if they decide to teach at home. There are existing homeschooling groups that are more than willing to help get the project started; there is much counsel on line about homeschooling, and studying about is a good first step to take. Homeschooling is not as difficult as it might seem, and most parents do not have 30 kids to teach.

In the UK, the government do not help homeschoolers financially. There are some already planned homeschooling programmes, that can be found on line and they explain everything you have to do as a teacher. A curriculum is needed in order to know exactly what to cover each month of the year. It is important to have a goal, and to reach it on a constant basis. It would be wise to have a checking system, in order to check off what the kids have learned.

As a family, everyone must be respectful of your decision, and also avoid getting in the way during school hours. It is best to have a certain area of the house set aside for teaching and studying. Having a computer available for the student to use is very helpful, and a library of at least a couple of shelves, where books like a Dictionary, Encyclopaedia, World Atlas etc. are kept, would be a good idea.