ln many countries you can be certain that officials would soon be 0) knocking on the door if your parents decided not to 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 same way as all the other children in your country. There was an example of this quite recently. The parents of a young girl had started to educate their daughter at home rather than send her through the compulsory school 4) ... because they believed they could give her a broader education themselves. Unfortunately for them, in Germany this is illegal. ln Britain, however, the law simply 5) ... that parents must provide their children with a fulltime education from the age of five, and home education is becoming an increasingly popular choice with parents. Considering the higher levels of bad behaviour being 6) ... in our schools, the parents who choose to educate their children at home may well have a strong case. Certainly, the children involved seem to prefer it, even if this is simply because they are not 7) ... with the problem of coping with teachers or students they don't like at school every day!