Comment by graemep

> Because the absolute number one factor determining student outcomes is the ratio of students to teachers; the fewer students per teacher, the better.

Home educated kids often teach themselves so the student teacher ratio is infinity so terrible!

Both my kids taught themselves some subjects (had tutors for other, had me for some, so lots of one to one too). They did just as well in the subjects they taught themselves (8 and 9 in GCSE Latin, which as they did not have a tutor and I am terrible at languages is very much self taught).