To find the homeschooling fad really braggy

Every child needs a parent around? I'm not sure what your point is.

I work round my husbands shifts. Only part time but by the time I had paid for school wrap around and holiday care I wouldn’t earn much more if she was in school.
Why- because after lots of research we feel it’s best for our daughter and our family.
She will socialise plenty thanks- home ed groups, scouts etc, weekend and evening sports or drama clubs, neighbours, family friends etc. And she will socialise with people of all ages that she chooses not the same kids with no choice whether they are nice or are bullies.
If she wants to play football then she can join a team same as any child?
If you would hate it then it’s not the right thing for you clearly but that doesn’t mean it isn’t for other people.

They obviously need a parent around to do all that, which was the point

Or they can use home ed settings, forest/farm schools or childcare.
The child can make friends with neighbours, other home educated children, children from dance or sports classes, Brownies or Cubs.
They can play football at the park or join a football team like any other child 😂

Unless you can juggle shifts, it means that one of you can afford not to work. Also , why would you? Where will your child find friends? Play football? Socialise normally? I would have hated the one on one, no escape for either of you.

My friend is like this, I've unfriended her on FB as most of her posts are anti school. About kids being turned into robots, being trained by the government and other similar things. I think she is probably in the newly converted group and also perhaps feels insecure. I support home ed and would do it if I felt it was right for us, currently it isn't but that may change! I have been supportive of her choices and am genuinely interested in the outcomes. She does unschooling and perhaps that makes her more 'radical' than other home edders. She is against any form of testing, even if it's done by home ed families. And honestly yes I do feel like she can be quite smug and I feel judged, because I know she thinks school is an inferior choice and it is overall bad for kids.

That bill is dreadful.

If I hadn't been able to withdraw my child from a school environment that was harming him so much he was trying to kill himself then he would be dead now not at university living a successful life.

The state has done so much harm to children like mine in education i couldn't trust them. The state should not have total control like that.

It’s like anyone who evangelises their life choices, regardless of what those choices are - it can be annoying.

I home educate my children, it wasn’t something I thought I would do but was left with little choice. There is a lot that just doesn’t work in the current system for so many kids.

I can’t say I’ve met another home educating parent that’s been braggy about it or that hasn’t given a huge amount of thought about the education their child is receiving.

You are always going to find people online who think that they are some kind of superior parent for home educating or for whatever else they have made their personality about. Same as those who are completely the opposite and are convinced that home education is the equivalent of child neglect.

In my experience, mostly people are either interested in how it works or couldn’t care less.

Another home education bash thread....yawn.

It's up to the headteacher to decide how to operate so I assume they would discuss it with the teacher in order to manage workload.
For example some schools might designate particular days as core days where everyone is in school, and then have others as available for flexi.

Name begins with R?

Yeah I dread to think what this future generation will be like once they enter the working world.

I also feel like these faddy homeschoolers aren't really considering what happens when the kids grow up. It's all very nice and cutesy when kids are learning basic 2+2 and making artwork from autumn leaves but what about a few years down the line when they need to be taught algebra and quadratic equations? I was really good at maths but there's absolutely no way I can remember any of that stuff to teach now!

Thankfully the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a start, and the sign that things ARE finally changing, it will be slow, it wont' be straight forward, but it's a sure start of better things to come.

It was about time and finally the government is starting to step up.

I've been a secondary teacher for over 15 years.
I am very happy with my choice to send my own children to school, but I can see quite clearly how the education system isn't a great fit for all families. Since having my children I can understand more how important it is to make that right choice for your own children.

The only element of ehe that makes me uncomfortable are the parents that have limited parenting skills, very low education and yet withdrawn to ehe so that they can avoid the school system. These aren't the ones with the wholesome Instagram posts of outdoor play though!

Ha! I think I know who you mean. Agree it's the most annoying.

What also annoys me are parents who can't afford it and yet they moan about mainstream not providing individual teaching, vegan food and all sorts of things they chose for their kids. The expectation mainstream would fully cater to their choices is frankly bonkers.

I think we're going to have a struggle of so many poorly adjusted individuals in about a decade for so many reasons, including fad 'homeschooling', it's pretty bleak.

I can tell you that as two highly educated parents, home educating was actually the last thing that ever occurred to us that is going to happen to our child. But it did. No one is vaccinated against life events

I can ‘dare’ quite easily.

Because I know the stats.

And the majority of children who slip compketely through the gaping holes in health and social care are doing so in complete plain view, and they’re under 5x

You clearly do not. Nor have you considered the fact that children aren’t off the radar just because they are not in school….i’ll leave you to have a stab at exercising your imagination

I've aupaired and taught SEN kids to read and write by sheer determination and will. They were failed in school. How about that

Not bragging at all and not rich
Partner is a highly trained and experienced teacher himself, I have a Masters in a very broad discipline

I'm going to start this by saying that I am a home educator who runs a blog and posts on Instagram about our "homeschool". On my blog I collate all of the educational activities put on for home educators by cultural institutions in London each term, as a resource for home educators in London. All of this information is available on the museum websites, but since I'm looking it up and sharing it with various groups anyway, I thought I would put it into a blog post, to make it easier for home educators to find it. It started for local friends, but is growing into something bigger. To add to this, I write reviews of those activities online, so that home educators have an idea of what they are booking on to.

On my Instagram account, I share reels of those cultural activities, as well as posts about what home education looks like for us. The intention isn't to brag, but as outreach for the home ed community, and also to dispel myths about home ed. There is a lot of misinformation about the home educating community and so over the years, there have been campaigns for home educators to show what their "homeschool" looks like.

As a community, we can often feel under threat, rightly or wrongly, and this is one way we try to approach that positively.

Like any community, we do have issues, one more recent one is with people trying to make a name for themselves and monetize their content as influencers, although I guess that is a wider societal issue.

We do have a lot of people in our community, whose children have been really damaged by the school environment. I have seen children as young as 5 join our community, who have been traumatised by school, and have a lot of issues to work through when they first leave school. They are often neurodivergent. I taught Reception through to Year 2 before having children, and it really does break my heart. I do wonder what the school was doing. There are many ex-teachers in the home ed community who feel the same. The numbers of home educators are going up, because of current issues with the school system, which the government seem reluctant to fix, because it would be expensive. The same issues are leading to issues with teacher retention.

This does lead to there being many home educators who are anti-school, which is understandable really.

Home education should really be a free choice. It isn't right that families are being pushed into something like this by a system that is failing their children. Right now, too often it isn't and as a community, we are left to pick up the pieces.

The problem is the amount of time wasted by the teacher who then has to catch up for what has been missed that day. When it's primary school and a day they learn about history mainly, it's not too bad, when it was a focus day in Maths and everybody has to wait, it's a waste of everybody's time. It should not be allowed, or teachers should just ignore the child - but they are educators, they care, and of course they wouldn't do that.

Kids finish at 3pm in England, theres more than enough time to follow private interests.

I can't see why an entire class has to be put on hold for one child, they are over-crowded as it is.

Flexi schooling is a fab medium

A few days in school, a couple at home.
We do 1 home 4 in school.
I can afford to work and input into my child's life educationally giving them the 1-1 variety to follow interests interactively of just small scale focus and embed learning in a home environment.

School gets the full funding and teacher knows there's 1 less child in class on a set day.

It's a legal right to ask and is agreed on a case by case basis from the head teacher.

I'm a big fan and its my hope to do this the whole school through.

I'm an 'accidental' home educator. Accidental because I was forced into it when my 10 year old boy had a break down due to undiagnosed SEN and school refused. I ended up then also home educating my daughter.

I don't think my children are exceptional but the classroom didn't suit them because of their additional needs. We had to adapt at home over the secondary years which was fairly easy because there are lots of resources available.

My kids did manage to keep up their sports/ friendships reasonably well.

My son did OK in his GCSEs then transitioned easily to college for A Levels and now is in his second year at university in London (away from home) and is loving it and has a part time job too.

In terms of his 6th form and A Levels the teachers said he was much more capable than his schooled peers to undertake the independent study needed to excel (he ended up with 3 A*s at A Level) and I think this is a real benefit.

You sound jealous.
Home education isn’t a utopia for all, but when it goes well it’s amazing, and it’s good to hear those cases as they’re inspiring and show us what can be done.

FWIW having got to know many people through HE the majority are SN, diagnosed or otherwise, and the others are ex teachers who didn’t want their own children to be taught in mainstream schools….

Well that is certainly the argument for it. Overall, I'd say the benefits of school outweigh the negatives, but brainwashing happens in schools too. My stepson's PSHE lessons often raise a conversation at the dinner table.

I think on the whole they're just new, excited, idealistic and not yet worn down by getting them thru GCSEs. In general if they join the support groups they'll be reminded to keep their eyes on their child's future (age dependent).