A mother says she lost friends after taking her kids out of school and moving her family of four to live off-grid in a 9ft ‘old horsebox’ – but she has no regrets.
Angie Burkey, 45, was heartbroken when her youngest son Fox Burkey began to struggle with being in a classroom due to his autism and eventually opted to take him out of school when he was six.
The mother-of-two decided to home educate Fox herself, using the flexibility of being self-employed, as she runs a holiday cleaning business with her husband Danny Burkey.
Angie and Danny, also 45, soon realised the only thing tying them to Cornwall was their rented house and so took their eldest son Phoenix out of school too.
She said: ‘He liked school actually, he just ended up getting out because it was easier and we could travel.’
After an ‘absolutely horrific’ winter living …