Is there any evidence that home education/ taking your child out of school improves outcomes for SEN children?

So I worry about getting to burnout and then withdrawing when it’s too late,

I’m not home schooling but my fear is my ten year old goes to secondary and can’t cope. We are in mainstream private we’ve had uniform adaptations, we do a lot a lot of scaffolding at home. There are now full on routines in place to get her to school. If anything goes out of place we get EBSA.

so far we’ve had two terms of it pretty much working. But I worry about secondary / the social side a lot because I know what girls can be like, at the moment her uniform difference isn’t seen by the other kids. No one says anything to her - but come secondary what will it be like? She’s autistic, demand avoidant and has auditory processing issues too,

I think it depends entirely on each case.

Some children cope better than others without some company their own age, and an only child is in a different situation to one with siblings.

Not all parents have the ability to teach, or the temperament, since teaching your own child is not the same as teaching a class. Let alone being able to afford it.

I think sometimes it's necessary to withdraw them from school to avoid further or permanent damage.

But I also think some people run away from the problem too early and it's worth sticking at it a bit longer because it can help their resilience - as much as I hate that word! With adjustments, a heap of understanding, days off, and so on (but again not everyone can afford it).

The hardest bit for parents is that it's not an exact science. Only time can tell if withdrawing them/persevering with school was the right thing for a specific child. And still, you will never be sure. You can only try your best and trust your instincts because you are the person who knows them best.

I took mine out far too late. They were then diagnosed with severe depression at the age of 8 following what was essentially a suicide attempt. I will always regret not pulling them out sooner, however I did feel like I had to try absolutely everything to make it work at school. Whether she ever manages to return to one, who knows. I can't even say that it was down to lack of support as the school did everything they could as well!

I started talking about suicide at 7 years old. I could not cope with school. Too loud and busy and when I get over stimulated I don't absorb any information at all.

When home schooled I would get up really early in the morning and diligently complete all of my work.

It depends on the kid. I was the type to eat my veges frost because I enjoyed delayed gratification.

But to this day I can't learn unless alone in a silent environment. I struggled even with a tutor and did far better when left to my own devices.

Being ND means I struggled with other kids anyway. Being home schooled didn't make it worse.

I do however think that there nerds to be serious oversight because it can make it easier to hide abuse when a child isn't going to school. So unfortunately for me, homeschooling helped me with school work and learning, but also meant that I never got the help I needed re home life.

I think some pull to early and some who don’t need to do because they don’t want the fight.

I’ve also seen it become a slippy slope where one child in a house of 6 was homeschooled as their current school did not fit and then one by one all the other children suddenly couldn’t cope at school either spread out between reception and gcse.

Do I believe that suddenly six children needed to be homeschooled within a 4 months period. Nope not at all. I think it became easier to have them all home than running around to some at school some not some in primary and some in secondary.

Do I think knowing these children that they will achieve qualifications? Nope. Will then go into the trades? So far I’d say no to that as well.

The parent openly posts daily what their learning is and one should be doing GCSEs right now and isn’t doing anymore than some baking and kiddie game coding on a pc from the posts.

Only one of the six children again has a diagnosis.

I can't imagine its measurable. Too many variables.

I can not really answer your question as my daughter is still in school however she had to have a long period of time off for health issues and went from 3 years behind to age appropriate in the year she spent the most time at home incident going from not able to read to a free reader in 8 months.

It is a really difficult one and a position I found myself in. My son is autistic and wasn't coping in school to then point her wasn't attending. We tried lots of things and it didn't work - and forcing him in (which we couldn't physically do) was just going to make his life unbearable. So we deregistered and taught him at home.

It hasn't been easy and I think we and him would have preferred to have him attending school but unfortunately he falls into a grey area where he can't cope with mainstream but he doesn't fit into a specialist school. This last year though he has attended a small 14 to 16 college course after being out of school nearly 3 years. It's not perfect but it's been really good for all of us.

But there are lots of children out there which have been failed by the system who are now struggling at home to. I was in a lucky position where I could be flexible in my job to support him but for many families the stress and impact of a failed education system is huge. Equally there are many children who have thrived and has been the best decision for them.