Hi,
I have been lurking about education threads for a while seeking alternatives for my early secondary years child. I am curious to know what if anything is missing from the obvious options that I have found..
Full time school suits many families and children well, the current homes schooling situation is clearly not working for many of them. I assume that whether sooner or later, this form of schooling will re-establish itself as was, or very close to.
Full time Home ed in its many forms from child led to online schools and everything in-between and round the sides, is presumably less altered educationally but still socially impacted. As isolation measures lift, it will probably get back to normal sooner.
I'm interested in whether there many people out there who feel that a flexible approach would work for their children - and if anyone has experience of making this happen.
The absence code system (kids have to be marked as absent when flexi schooling to my knowledge) and concerns about academic league tables seem to have killed of the prospect of state school flexi schooling being widely available.
Are there those who wish for an alternative to the all or nothing approach - eg Home school plus PE, Practical Science, Mentored Social interaction, even pastoral care ? Does anyone know of this happening ?
Please feel free to disagree, contradict and generally risk being a bit brusqse with me, I just think it's a good time for a wide ranging debate about how we as a nation can approach education - our families are all different and we are in the middle of a huge national edudational experiment - albeit for horrible reasons. It must have got a few people thinking, and a proportion might want something different to what we had.
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jebthesheep · 09/06/2020 12:08
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