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to think home ed families are going to have to accept more oversight?

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DrZaraCarmichael · 11/12/2024 18:09

To try to prevent more cases like Sara Sharif. Taken out of school - where teachers were raising concerns - and then apparently fell off the radar.

Yes children's services have to look long and hard at themselves but taking a child out of school, especially when there has been previous SS involvement, has to raise a whole field of red flags surely??

I can see how families who are home educating for the right reasons and who have nothing to hide will see this as intrusive and unnecessary. But something has to change, right?

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Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 10:20

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 10:11

Peonies007

Do schools in your country have the issues with disruptive behavior that exist in British school? I think a lot of the draconian measures in schools are an effort to deal with this problem, when I was a secondary school we had lesson after lesson ruined by pupils most teachers struggled to manage and with a handful of really quite violent pupils there was an unsafe atmosphere. Now schools are attempting to be much more disciplined, it's just the way it's done is causing other problems.

Not really. But then schools don't have to measure skirt length or tell kids to tuck in shirts or have poorly kids in. So teens generally don't rebel much. School days are shorter (only got to 7 hrs days at about 16).
I remember from my school days, we had one kid who would be very clearly severely ADHD by measures today. He got told off by teachers but I don't remember him disturbing learning much.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:16

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 10:15

I really suggest you read the thread, you clearly know very little about this and it's tiresome.

as said, i have no intention of reading other opinions, i am giving my opinion, your opinion is tiresome to me, my opinion is valid

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 10:15

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:11

who can afford to home school,?
the middle classes, who will wring their hands at this.
and are doing so imo
and are outraged that they might be judged

I really suggest you read the thread, you clearly know very little about this and it's tiresome.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:15

Soontobe60 · 14/12/2024 10:14

How do you tell the difference though?

that is the crux of the matter imo

Soontobe60 · 14/12/2024 10:14

Chowtime · 11/12/2024 18:20

How many times do I have to attempt to explain this simple matter.

Sara Sharif was taken out of school to be abused. She wasn't taken out of school to be honest educated - that was a lie.

Leave the home schoolers alone and save your energy for the abusers

How do you tell the difference though?

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:14

sounds good @Peonies007

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 10:13

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:07

i dont need to hear @benefitstaxcredithelp
i have read enough elsewere on this issue
here, today, I am anonymous and so giving my opinion. presumably you have skin in the game and dont like my opinion.
a german man telephoned in to jeremy vine show and said Home schooling is simply not allowed in germany

Germans have totally different system though!
Starting at 6, short school days, various other types of schools too. Academic/vocational track choice at 11.
So non-academic kids don't need to do A levels but learn to be engineers/builders etc from young age.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:11

who can afford to home school,?
the middle classes, who will wring their hands at this.
and are doing so imo
and are outraged that they might be judged

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 10:11

Peonies007

Do schools in your country have the issues with disruptive behavior that exist in British school? I think a lot of the draconian measures in schools are an effort to deal with this problem, when I was a secondary school we had lesson after lesson ruined by pupils most teachers struggled to manage and with a handful of really quite violent pupils there was an unsafe atmosphere. Now schools are attempting to be much more disciplined, it's just the way it's done is causing other problems.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:09

i do know enough about the school system, how they are a form of safety net for vulnerable children. it is a major part of their role. without this where is the safety net.

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 10:08

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 09:58

no i havent read the thread
why do i even need to
i was just giving my opinion

home schooling needs dialling back - it CAN be Unsafe and an excuse to harm the child

No serious case review ever happened where child was home educated and not known to SS already. So they weren't not seen, they were known but abandoned by SS.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 10:07

i dont need to hear @benefitstaxcredithelp
i have read enough elsewere on this issue
here, today, I am anonymous and so giving my opinion. presumably you have skin in the game and dont like my opinion.
a german man telephoned in to jeremy vine show and said Home schooling is simply not allowed in germany

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 10:06

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:36

I can believe it, the intense focus on attendance produces some nutty behavior, and the nutty behavior explains why it is difficult to to trust paid adults with legal powers over our children to act in their best interests.

There is of course that weird illness that started in 2020, which has now of course dissapeared (it hasn't).
My kids and husband got it really bad in February. Husband is never sick but fainted this time. All four of them for almost two weeks was sleep and watch TV. Then it took another 2 weeks to feel good enough to rejoin the clubs etc. They 'missed' education but we place high value on good health and recovery and also not infecting other people. I'm sure school would be going on about attendance. Not their fault, it's government thing.

benefitstaxcredithelp · 14/12/2024 10:05

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 09:58

no i havent read the thread
why do i even need to
i was just giving my opinion

home schooling needs dialling back - it CAN be Unsafe and an excuse to harm the child

Because you’ll hear from many HE families who think your opinion is nonsense and that HE is nothing to do with the sad death of this child. She was a school girl who was failed by the SS, courts and education system. The discussion on here has been a good one in general.

You’ll also see that ‘homeschooling needs dialling back’ is an incredibly naive idea when schools are not the safe place they should be and are failing far too many of our children today. Mentally as well as academically. 30-35% of pupils come out of 12 years of education’ with no qualifications. You clearly know nothing of what home education is.

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 10:02

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:46

Peonies007

The education system in the country you're from sounds wonderful.

It's not perfect by any means but much better for a child. Rarly years framework extended up to 7yo would be a start and it wouldn't cost anything! Checking that each child is school ready (proper eye and hearing tests for eye tracking and auditory processing) would be a start. It doesn't have to cost much at all, but political will just isn't there.
My mum and sister are forever horrified about starting age and length of school day.

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 09:58

benefitstaxcredithelp · 14/12/2024 09:41

😂 have you even read this thread?
“simply not allowed” ok 😂

no i havent read the thread
why do i even need to
i was just giving my opinion

home schooling needs dialling back - it CAN be Unsafe and an excuse to harm the child

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:46

Peonies007

The education system in the country you're from sounds wonderful.

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 09:42

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:36

I can believe it, the intense focus on attendance produces some nutty behavior, and the nutty behavior explains why it is difficult to to trust paid adults with legal powers over our children to act in their best interests.

You can see other countries who manage to produce decent teens without all the ridiculous attendance/behaviour etc policy.
Culture is different though and kids are part of everything (back to funerals, weddings, church etc). They are also allowed lots more independence. My 10yo nephew can cook pasta for example, chop wood for fire. He walked himself to school age 7, after first few weeks of starting.
Myself I started secondary school and wanted to board (Nothing like english boarding school though). I didn't fancy 45min bus every day and was independent rnough. Lots of kids do it. I then arrived in UK not knowing anyone at 18.

benefitstaxcredithelp · 14/12/2024 09:41

HelenWheels · 14/12/2024 08:47

the will have to accept more oversight
and should know why
in other countries home schooling is simply not allowed

😂 have you even read this thread?
“simply not allowed” ok 😂

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:36

I can believe it, the intense focus on attendance produces some nutty behavior, and the nutty behavior explains why it is difficult to to trust paid adults with legal powers over our children to act in their best interests.

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 09:32

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:29

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I think another reason there is a lot of school absence at the moment is schools are very miserable places for a lot of children, Mossbourne may be an extreme example, but lots of secondary academies have a similar approach and philosophy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjd383z9lyo#:~:text=A%20leading%20school%20academy%20trust%20is%20facing%20allegations,the%20Mossbourne%20Federation%20schools%20in%20Hackney%2C%20east%20London.

My friend says her niece's school insists on children showing their vomit before they can go home sick. She is 16.

Gherkintastic · 14/12/2024 09:19

SusieSussex · 14/12/2024 08:51

Schools aren't allowed to off roll kids to improve their results and would get into trouble with ofsted if they did that. Latin might not be the best choice for someone who needed functional English

Schools aren't allowed to off roll children, but they most certainly do. I consider than my daughter was off rolled, I complained to the governors, they bounced my complaint back to the school, I complained to ofsted and as far as I know nothing came of it. Anyway I wouldn't send her back there even if you threaten to lock me up and throw away the key.

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 08:58

SusieSussex · 14/12/2024 08:51

Schools aren't allowed to off roll kids to improve their results and would get into trouble with ofsted if they did that. Latin might not be the best choice for someone who needed functional English

Doesn't mean it doesn't go on
https://www.servicestoschools.org.uk/Article/72081
Maybe not the best example with latin, but maybe..
this child is predicted D in geography (even thought they love subject), bs this child is predicted A (not much interest in subject but can ace it).

SusieSussex · 14/12/2024 08:51

Peonies007 · 14/12/2024 08:31

Also, if education is that important, why are schools allowed to exclude? Talking mainly about pre-GCSE, where schools exclude bc child isn't getting good grades and school don't want their results spoiled? Why do schools dictate which GCSE's subject will kids take (this one does latin, that one only functional level english).
Where do those kids go?

Schools aren't allowed to off roll kids to improve their results and would get into trouble with ofsted if they did that. Latin might not be the best choice for someone who needed functional English