Good God. What Chris appears to be saying is that the girls are doing distance ed. So if the kids are doing distance ed, they should be doing all core subjects, which are what he is claiming are useless and outdated. They will have to turn in their work each week in order to fulfill the requirements of the course. I don’t recall if you’re asked/required to submit work to the governing body or if your enrolment is enough to satisfy them that your child is being educated sufficiently. That would make his noise about the department null and void.
If these kids aren’t being educated then they will not have the ability to ever enter tertiary education. I highly doubt Isabelle got a 9 as she’s hardly able to string a coherent sentence together (thanks to the dimwit parents). What she reads in her spare time doesn’t suggest to me that she’s studying English or English Lit at A Level.
I really hope we’re all wrong and that those kids are doing schoolwork via an online course attached to an actual school. They would have access to online lectures and email access to help with the work. They would need to be highly motivated to work on their own or the parents would need to watch the lectures so they are able to sit and help with the work. I can’t imagine any of that being the case.
None of those kids are academically gifted so working on their own in their rooms is unlikely.
) & sometimes none at all. If they were enrolled into an online school/tutor programme, those hours would be consistent. Why don’t they just admit they unschool and basically let their kids get on with it? I’m beginning to wonder if the LA are on their backs which may explain this ‘drastic change’ & they are going to run away for the rest of the school year to avoid a compulsory back to school order. 
as much as he is. 
