UK: Bullies driving thousands of pupils to study at home

If you ask Americans why they homeschool, you'll get reasons like religious training, higher standard of academics, better student-teacher ratio, more positive role modeling of socialization.

In the UK, a common reason is bullying. Bullying is a problem in the US, but often considered a strengthening experience for kids to work through; it seems to be looked on as a good way for kids to "learn to get along in the world" and stand on their own two feet, and is therefore a positive reason for choosing public school. I mean, you hear of a child being homeschooled because of a bully every once in a while, but it's the least common factor, at least from what I hear of the homeschoolers I know of. For bullying to be the most oft-cited motivating factor for pulling kids out of school, it must be pretty bad in the UK.

Read more here. I found this article at HomeschoolBuzz.