Hi julienoshoes,
I'm a trainee journalist doing a postgraduate course at Cardiff University and so the article would be appearing in our inhouse newspaper marked by our tutors, with with the possibility of giving it to a local newspaper (the South Wales Echo or Western Mail).
I completely understand your concern, and although it's very hard to prove online that I'm not the kind of journalist that would deliberately lure someone into a false sense of security and then, as you say, churn our "the same old biases and inaccurate statements", I would say that I have a friend back home who was homeschooled, and I understand why parents consider this an attractive option, what with the ever-increasing amount of problems and bullying children can encounter, so I am truly sympathetic to the issue (although as I mentioned, it is very hard to prove this via a forum).
Although I don't have a personal experience of homeschooling and am currently in the middle of researching it, without finding out the views of someone who has, or is, homeschooling in Cardiff, I'm not able to continue with the feature as the article depends on Cardiff home educators' experiences, and what they think of the Cardiff education system.
I would be so grateful if you could pass on this thread to other home educators, as naturally the council doesn't disclose contact details, although they told me there were 82 home educators currently in Cardiff - so they do exist, heh!
Many thanks again, and I do completely understand your reservations - if it would help at all, please feel free to ask me for any other details about either myself or the article.