I feel for you Mark. I live in the UK where homeschooling has not yet been banned & in fact homeschoolers in the UK don't even have to allow state representatives to check on them although as you have found out, it is better to play ball with the state & let them think they are I'm control. Both of my children are still in state primary school but myself & my partner both want to get them out before secondary school as we both despair at the way society has been/is being engineered. I really hope you manage to sort things out in Portugal so you can feel free again. It's a sad state of affairs that the people who are trying to do thier best to make the world a better place are victimised while those that blindly follow & do what they are told are left alone & often rewarded.