Good things and bad things about home educating

Good Things
Your kid won’t have nits all the time
You won’t have to make yourself hoarse every morning shouting, ‘It’s gone eight o’clock’ at a sleeping teenager.
Your child will retain the ability to pronounce medial and terminal ‘t’s and not replace them as a matter of course with glottal stops.
You can enter your child for whatever combination of GCSEs you both want.
You don’t have to make yourself presentable for the school run every day.
Your daughter or son can continue playing with dolls or toy cars, without feeling that they must stop at a certain age lest their friends think them babyish.
Your child will not have to rub shoulders with children called Brandon, Jadon, Taylor, Tyler, Kylie and Paige.

Bad Things
Despite what you tell the LA, your kid will not have a very extensive social life. He will become out of touch with what other kids find important.
Unless you get your arse into gear, he will end up with no qualifications at all.
Your family and friends will think that you are weird.
The only people who will approve and be your friends are other home educating parents, many of whom genuinely are weird. (Unlike you).
Your kid may not have to hang out with children called Chantelle, but you will find now that she is likely to be knocking around with people called Andromeda and Sky.

You will spend hours on the computer, like some kid obsessed with facebook. You run the risk of sitting up until two every morning commenting angrily on forums and blogs.