The nearest private school here is a Christian-only school.
Because half of the classes are based on Jesus and stuff.
There is one reasonably good Private school near me, which is also a boarding school for non-local students.
But, they like to insist that they are much better than any of the local public schools.
Yet at my current school, a secondary school, years 7-11 (Ages 12-16), they achieve equal or better grades than this private school.
And because this private school is also a Sixth Form College, so it has Years 7-11, and then 2 extra years of non-compulsary education, a.k.a Years 12-13 (ages 16-18), they boast that they beat all grades in the Colleges around the area.
But, again, the local college, which is part of a quarter-county-wide group of (2) colleges (Ages 16-18), which I shall be going to come September, actually achieves better grades than this Private school.
Homeshooling is traditional, it was around long before these stuffty public schools.
If by tradition, you mean when it used to be that girls would be taught at home by their mothers on how to be housewives, while boys went to work with their fathers in the fields, then yes it is a tradition.
And then when schools were created, only boys went to them and girls stayed at home to continue to be taught how to be a housewife.
And then girls schools opened up, and boys and girls both went to seperate schools.
And then the governments made schooling compulsary at schools and schoolhouses.
And then unilove schools started to be created.