Why we had to home educate Peter

It all started a long time ago but come to a head in the year 2003,In the months leading up to June 2003 Peter age 7  had won a number of chess tournaments including some adult chess tournaments.So it become very clear that Peter had a special  gift for chess so our idea was that Peter should get off site chess education with a private chess coach for one day a week on a school day.I  asked the head teacher if Peter could do this she agreed to this with out any fuss at all! i was quite amazed any way we did this with Peter taking time off from school with the private chess coach and it was working really well,So i thought lets get it all done right in writing that it is ok for Peter to do this.I asked the head to do this and this is when it all went wrong she started to stall and said she needed time to think about it all and would need to contact Hampshire County Council.Which she did and they wrote us a letter saying you could not have more than ten days off per year.The letter was from Hampshire County Councils barrister a Ms Keri Tayor.I spent a great deal of time at the school with the head trying to get her to allow Peter to have off  site chess education but it was in possible she had become scared of her LA! We where also told that if Peter took time off for chess it would count as missing school and Education Welfare would take action against us. so after a lot of soul searching we decided to home educate Peter and had no idea how you would go about it so on June 23rd 2003 Peter started home education!