To think this child should be in school?

[LondonNightOwl]

How long is reasonable for a child to miss school when visiting a parent in another country ? Child (junior school age) of a friend is currently staying with parent in the UK. Child normally lives in another European country - child is staying in the UK until October currently (arrived in April) and friend has no plans to register him at a school. Is friend allowed to do this (as in keep him out of education for 6 months?)

Friend works f/t so won't be homeschooling

Some US schools broke up a couple of weeks ago.
If the parent is working 9 - 5, what hours would the home education take place? Or would the neighbour do it?

hanging it can be done on a evening and/or weekends. When homeschooling you don't have to do 6 hours per day. Or Monday to Friday.

That's the beauty of it. Because it's 1-2-1 learning you don't even need to spend the same amount of time as they spend at school.

Also in home ed you don't have to waste time on things like revisions and preparations for tests, tests themselves, waiting till everybody's finished to move on to the next task, etc.

You don't know if the child's education has been carried on, whilst the Dad was off work and if it will continue in the evenings/weekends.

I don't think that every child would necessarily get anything out of going to school, under a different system/language, for the remaining four months.

The ad hoc childcare, is the real concern.

How old is the child? 9-10yo needs much less "care" than let's say 5-6yo.

I don't get why he doesn't just enrol the child in school

Different curriculums, different styles of learning and teaching, different priorities.

Even the difference between the Irish and English (and I say English not Welsh Scottish or northern Irish cos I don't know those) is quite marked and their the most similar.

There might not be any place in a local school for the child to be enrolled anyway. The childcare aspect is the more concerning thing anyway - how old is the child?

Like other posters said it depends on which country the child is from. I am from another EU country and we don't start school until 7 and when we do the summer holidays are from end of May until 1 September.
Plus only England has this 'school police' where one missed day turns into massive drama and you have to pay fines for not attending

Children don't have to be registered at school in the UK. It's the parents responsibility to educate their child, and even then you don't have to follow the national cirruculum.