A millionaire father has invested £150,000 in building a school in his back garden for his children after becoming frustrated with what he calls the "rigid" and "oppressive" British education system - and has now employed two teachers.

Property mogul Samuel Leeds, 34, decided to remove his three eldest children - aged eight, seven and five - from conventional education due to his worries about the lack of financial and entrepreneurial teaching in their syllabus.

The father-of-four spent six months building the 600 square foot learning facility, where he now hires two full-time educators and teaches finance classes himself. The school has capacity for 12 pupils altogether; presently those attending are his own offspring plus his nieces and nephews, the Manchester Evening News reports

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