Ask my teenage son Max to name his favourite places and he’ll tell you that one of them is school.
There, he gets to learn with a glass of chocolate milk in his hand and his beloved pet tortoise and budgie at his side, with the promise of a dog walk at lunch.
Aged 14, Max is one of a growing number of children who attend private online school from the comfort of their own homes – not to be confused with home educating, where Mum and Dad are the teachers.
The school beamed into his bedroom each day is the £8,800-a-year Minerva
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