Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
So your earlier remark was too vague. What you meant to say was 'Home schooling can sometimes be a device for ‘off rolling’ (getting difficult kids off the school roll) used by schools with a good reputation to protect their headline figures'.
(Add Virginia Woolf, Robert Browning, Tennyson and John Stuart Mill to the list of 'home-schooled' people who did quite well regardless).