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KV...my experience of home schooling is somewhat different to yours, and, by the way, I didn't use the term criminal...you did.
I came across a family earlier this month, with 5 kids, all under 12, who were home-schooled, and they lived in a Yurt in a muddy field, with no mains electricity or water.
While teaching a very young child to read and write maybe doable just about anywhere, ( I could read and write when I first attended school in September 1958, for instance ) what are this family going to do when it comes to GCSEs, etc ?
I am sure that you were not shackled to your bed, and lived in dark and foul-smelling surroundings
My point is that for home-schooled kids, they tend to disappear off the radar, and local authorities are unable/unwilling to make sure that their education is up to standard.