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Taken together, these clauses establish a presumption that any family educating outside full-time mainstream schooling must be indefinitely overseen by the state, subject to compulsory data disclosure and liable to escalating demands that ultimately lead to criminal sanction. Is it right to imprison parents for doing this? This is not a light-touch safeguard but a profound inversion of the principle that parents are primarily responsible for their children’s education, with the state stepping in only where there is a cause for concern. Under these proposals, the state steps in universally, compelling all parents to prove their adequacy on bureaucratic terms, even absent any specific risk.