Home Schooling

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

I'm intrigued by the references on the main list to JKR saying that 
children of wizard families are home schooled until Hogwarts time 
(main list question: what happens to Squibs?).  Is this confirmed?

Based on not very much information, I would say that the home-
schooling movement is much more advanced in the US than it is here in 
the UK.  For people to home-school their children is I think pretty 
unusual here - those that I have met have mostly been fairly special 
circumstances.  A lot of the materials used are American (which is 
partly why I think there is more happening in the States).

People here are often mildly hostile to home schooling on the grounds 
that it removes children from important social contact.  In a UK 
context the fact that wizarding folks avoid contact as much as 
possible with Muggles would make them seem pretty much home-schooling 
types, i.e. afraid to expose their children to the 'real world'.

David