Why did Agatha Christie get homeschool?

Answer 1

For some reason unknown to most of us, Agatha's mother had decided somewhere between her older children and Agatha that school was oppressive to a learning environment. Although her sister Madge was brilliant, her brother Monty had some difficulties as a young man and an adult. He couldn't seem to hold a job and was often needing family money to get him out of financial scrapes. This is not to say that Monty wasn't smart, on the contrary, he was quite smart. But his ability to maintain a responsible life was fractured. Since he at last ended up with an older woman to take care of him, I have wondered if he was just a sensitive child who took being sent off to boarding school as a devastating blow. Agatha's mother was a perceptive and intelligent woman and it's likely she found fault in how she managed him early on. None of this, if true, made an impact on Agatha, as she sent her daughter off to school and even boarding school. She even left her for several months while she went on an architectural dig with her second husband. This was not unusual for the English for those times, I only mention it because Agatha apparently did not make an effort to duplicate her own experience in her daughter. She never made disparaging remarks about being taught at home, in fact she enjoyed it. The reason for her choice will, perhaps, remain a mystery.