Government school teacher Leisa Smith is leaving public education this month after becoming "frustrated" and "appalled" with the system.

The primary school teacher is leaving her job to set up her own home school because she said she believed too many children were being allowed to fall through the cracks.

She said she already had a number of parents voice interest in transferring their youngsters to her school for the start of the new term in September.

Ms Smith told of her intentions at a heated meeting on Friday night held by home school parents and teachers to discuss Government's plans to impose tighter regulations on the alternative schooling.

Campaigners are fighting against proposals to limit home schools to only four students, and a stipulation that schools with more than four have to be licensed institutions.

They claim many home schools will no longer be viable with four students, and the majority would have to ask some students to leave.

However, they said they were against becoming licensed institutions because they would then have to be regulated by Government standards and planning law, which was totally against what they stood for.

"For many years I have been frustrated and for many years have not known how to handle my frustration. I'm tired of seeing children falling through the cracks and tired of seeing my co-workers not standing up for what they are supposed to do," she said.

The home schoolers are lobbying Government to rethink their plans, and are planning to present a petition to Education and Development Minister Paula Cox outside the House of Assembly on Friday.

They claimed that they did not mind showing Government test results of their students on an annual basis, but wished to have a greater number of students in their classes, suggesting a maximum of 12.

The Education Ministry claimed that while it appreciated parental choice, it had an obligation to ensure the learning environment was safe and suitable.

Ms Smith, who did not wish The Royal Gazette to disclose her public school, told the meeting that her son was failing at school and was getting poor results. As a result, he became a difficult child from being a perfectly "responsible little boy".

She added: "I'm a parent and I'm a very outspoken person. I went to the school and had meetings, and what disturbed me was that my co-workers who were supposed to have the same philosophy, had a very different philosophy from me.

"I was told they weren't able to pick up a phone to call me because they had too many children.

"So, I decided I could no longer perpetrate a fraud and I could no longer work for people when I don't know what they are doing.

"I'm at the point where I'm leaving, and I'm leaving with some of my children. My phone has been ringing off the hook. My resignation is in."

Ms Smith said she was an advocate for home schools and said some parents were choosing it because the public and private systems were not working for their children.

And of the public system, she added: "It's not getting better. It's getting worse." The teacher then encouraged home school parents and teachers to fight the Government's plans.

She added: "Do not sit on this. So many parents want it. I have been talking with my co-workers and they are switching, too.

"They know now that there is an alternative and they believe in it. They are saying that the alternative is showing results."

A statement on home schooling released by the Ministry of Education said: "The Ministry accepts an individual parents' right to determine the curriculum for their child.

"However, when a person is providing service to the public, we consider it appropriate for them to be regulated more closely.

"It is still our view that where more than four students are being taught in a home, that facility must meet all the health, planning and fire safety regulations required by law."