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Home Schooling
Full-time education in the UK is compulsory from the age of
ve to eighteen. However, that does not mean pupils have to
go to school. There are about 50,000 young people who have
their lessons at home instead, quite legally. This is ‘home
schooling’.
Parents decide to take their children out of school for different
reasons, like illness and need of special care or a very long
distance to the nearest school. Some children have simply been
unhappy at school, or have failed to make progress. Whatever
the reason, the law allows them to study at home, although
inspectors regularly visit to check how they are getting on.
Hayley and Jenny have not been inside a school for two
years but they have not neglected their studies. They follow
individual timetables they worked out with their mother’s
guidance. She is responsible for teaching them Maths,
English, History and French. Their father teaches them
Science and Geography. They study the other subjects online,
with the help of friends and relatives.
‘Dad goes out to work, so we have lessons with him in the
evenings and at weekends,’ explains Hayley. ‘That’s OK.’
The family home is a huge farmhouse in a remote corner of
north Wales. ‘The girls weren’t unhappy at school but they
spent so much time getting to school, they were too tired to
learn,’ says their mother, Julia. ‘We had a family conference
and in the end we decided to try home schooling. So far, it’s
been a big success, but the girls know that if they want to go
back to school at any time, we will let them. We follow the
normal school curriculum, and they will take all the normal
school exams.’
One big advantage of home schooling is that that students
can study the subjects they enjoy in more depth. For example,
Hayley is studying Physics at university level, with the help of
her dad and an online tutor. Jenny, meanwhile, is a talented
keyboard player who has already passed her Grade 8 exam.
There are disadvantages too, of course. ‘Social isolation is
something I worry about,’ says Julia, ‘but they both seem happy
and well adjusted. They both have friends who live locally, and
in the summer they go away to summer camps where they
have no trouble mixing with people and making friends.’
Home schooling is certainly an unusual way of life but it
seems to suit Hayley and Jenny.
1 50,000 children
A do not attend a school.
B live a long way from their nearest school.
C are failing at school.
D are not well enough to go to school.
2 Hayley and Jenny
A wanted to change schools
B have never been to school.
C were bored with school.
D had a long journey to school.
3 The girls study
A whatever they like.
B Science and Music.
C the subjects their parents know about.
D the same subjects as they would study at school.
4 Their mother worries because the girls
A know many people of their own age.
B might be lonely.
C go away every summer.
D fi nd it diffi cult to make friends.
5 The article is mainly about
A a Welsh family.
B the British education system.
C an alternative to ordinary school.
D living in a remote part of the country
właściwą, zgodną z treścią tekstu.
Home Schooling
Full-time education in the UK is compulsory from the age of
ve to eighteen. However, that does not mean pupils have to
go to school. There are about 50,000 young people who have
their lessons at home instead, quite legally. This is ‘home
schooling’.
Parents decide to take their children out of school for different
reasons, like illness and need of special care or a very long
distance to the nearest school. Some children have simply been
unhappy at school, or have failed to make progress. Whatever
the reason, the law allows them to study at home, although
inspectors regularly visit to check how they are getting on.
Hayley and Jenny have not been inside a school for two
years but they have not neglected their studies. They follow
individual timetables they worked out with their mother’s
guidance. She is responsible for teaching them Maths,
English, History and French. Their father teaches them
Science and Geography. They study the other subjects online,
with the help of friends and relatives.
‘Dad goes out to work, so we have lessons with him in the
evenings and at weekends,’ explains Hayley. ‘That’s OK.’
The family home is a huge farmhouse in a remote corner of
north Wales. ‘The girls weren’t unhappy at school but they
spent so much time getting to school, they were too tired to
learn,’ says their mother, Julia. ‘We had a family conference
and in the end we decided to try home schooling. So far, it’s
been a big success, but the girls know that if they want to go
back to school at any time, we will let them. We follow the
normal school curriculum, and they will take all the normal
school exams.’
One big advantage of home schooling is that that students
can study the subjects they enjoy in more depth. For example,
Hayley is studying Physics at university level, with the help of
her dad and an online tutor. Jenny, meanwhile, is a talented
keyboard player who has already passed her Grade 8 exam.
There are disadvantages too, of course. ‘Social isolation is
something I worry about,’ says Julia, ‘but they both seem happy
and well adjusted. They both have friends who live locally, and
in the summer they go away to summer camps where they
have no trouble mixing with people and making friends.’
Home schooling is certainly an unusual way of life but it
seems to suit Hayley and Jenny.
1 50,000 children
A do not attend a school.
B live a long way from their nearest school.
C are failing at school.
D are not well enough to go to school.
2 Hayley and Jenny
A wanted to change schools
B have never been to school.
C were bored with school.
D had a long journey to school.
3 The girls study
A whatever they like.
B Science and Music.
C the subjects their parents know about.
D the same subjects as they would study at school.
4 Their mother worries because the girls
A know many people of their own age.
B might be lonely.
C go away every summer.
D fi nd it diffi cult to make friends.
5 The article is mainly about
A a Welsh family.
B the British education system.
C an alternative to ordinary school.
D living in a remote part of the country
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