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When the BBC reported this week on the British government’s new Schools Bill, the framing was straightforward: following the horrific murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, Parliament is moving to tighten oversight of children educated at home. The bill would require local authorities to maintain compulsory registers of all homeschooled children, expand their power to demand information from parents, and intervene more readily when officials believe education is “unsuitable.”