Not sure if I'm allowed to quote but here's some of it:
'School phobia? is a dreadful label for some children's perfectly understandable response to being compelled to go to school against their will. They are not phobic, any more than a conscientious objector is a coward; they are refusing ? and in most cases very nobly. Over the years, I have spoken to many worried parents of school-refusing children. The outrages these children have been subjected to in the name of ?education? disgust me. They have been saddled with a pseudo-medical label that has deliberate connotations of ?mental illness? ? with all the stigma and the implied (and not-so-implied) menace that goes with that. Their perfectly reasonable dissent, and their desperately courageous resistance to being hurt and harmed has been cynically redefined as ?overdependence,? ?psychological instability,? and ?immaturity.? They have been psychologically tortured under the guise of psychiatric or psychological ?treatment? for a non-existent ailment. Their parents ? also demeaned by labels such as ?overprotective? ? have been threatened with court action unless they physically force their terrified, traumatised children into school every day. Many such parents who have sought my advice have themselves been in a terrible state of stress and trauma. Why don't they just comply? Because they know that forcing their child to go so school is immoral, psychologically harmful, and inimical to their child's education.
Or do they know that? Parents often do not seem to know it consciously. Or if they do, they also ?know? the contradictory idea that it is right and important for children to be schooled, because the law, the psychiatric, psychological, and educational professions all say so. They may be nice people in many respects, but as a result of their own parents' coercion, they are simply unable to see how damaging and wrong it is to force a child to go to school.'