​School at Home: Multiple Choice Vocabulary Test

In many countries you can be certain that officials would soon be (0)       C       on the door if your parents decided not send you to school! Perhaps your parents could be (1)________ to court and made to pay a large (2)________, while the authorities would make sure that you (3)________ school in the way as all the other children in your country.

There was an example of this quite recently. The parents of young girl had started to educate their daughter at home rather than (4)________ her through the compulsory school (5)________ because they believed they could give her a broader education themselves. Unfortunately for them, in Germany this is illegal.

In Britain, however, the law simply (6)________ that parents must (7)________ their children with a full-time education from the age of five, and home education is becoming an increasingly (8)________ choice with parents. Considering (9)________ levels of bad behaviour being (10)________ in our schools, the parents who choose to educate their children at home may have a strong (11)________. Certainly, the children involved seem to prefer it, even if this is simply because they are not (12)________ with the problem of coping with teachers or students they don’t like at school every day!