'I took my anxious daughter out of school - now she is thriving'

A mum took her daughter out of school because of her anxiety - and said she is now thriving being taught at home.

Seana-lee May, 30, has been home-schooling her daughter Millie-Rae full-time since September last year. The mum-of-three, 30, originally took her 11-year-old out of school during the Covid pandemic.

Millie-Rae was then home-schooled for a year until high school. But when she went back, she attended school for just five days before refusing to go in.

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She was 'kicking and screaming and refusing to go', Seana-lee said. She decided that home-schooling full-time was the only option for her daughter and has been teaching her ever since.

Seana-lee said that Millie-Rae is performing better in every aspect of her education and doesn't think she will send her back into the mainstream school system. She gives her daughter three, one-hour lessons between 9am and 12pm before a one-hour lunch break, then another one-hour lesson between 1pm and 2pm.

The mum from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, said: "Ever since she started school she had a period of kicking and screaming. She would refuse to go to school and she was falling behind.

"When it came to high school she was so excited to go back to school but it lasted five days. She started kicking and screaming and refusing to go."

Millie-Rae left school during the pandemic as Seana-lee was concerned about the virus. She is one of 5,330 children in Wales not being taught in school.

Millie-Rae was home-schooled for a year before she started high school. Seana-lee said: "I tried working with the school but they weren't responding so I decided to take her out of the school system.

"I am single parent so