Fed up with your kids’ school? Home educating might be easier than you think

Dominic Frisby explains how he came to make one of the most important investment decisions of his life – to home-school his son.

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School may not be the best place to educate your child
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I wanted to tell you a story in this week's Money Morning about an "investment decision" that my eldest son and I made precisely a year ago this week the week before schools go back (at least in our neck of the woods).

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Dominic Frisby

Dominic Frisby (“mercurially witty” – the Spectator) is as far as we know the world’s only financial writer and comedian. He is the author of the popular newsletter the Flying Frisby and is MoneyWeek’s main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies and cryptocurrencies. He has also taken several of his shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

His books are Daylight Robbery - How Tax Changed our Past and Will Shape our Future; Bitcoin: the Future of Money? and Life After the State - Why We Don't Need Government

Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art. You can follow him on X @dominicfrisby