To find the homeschooling fad really braggy

I wish people would stop saying home schooled. It's almost never "home schooled" in the U.K., it's home education.

The point is to be a very different environment than schooling children.

Some children thrive anywhere, some suit formal education, some suit a different approach. I think it's reasonable to accept the education system will not be appropriate for every child. If someone wants to home educate, good luck to them.

We are nearly at the end of home edding. DS2 sitting final 2 A levels next year. We are the 'quiet ones'. I have never followed any influencers or anything of that kind...just got on with it. We are not rich and our children have no SEN. We have found some people quite hostile over the years but have never let it bother us. I don't 'judge' people for sending their children to school.Obviously we are all different. I would avoid the influencer/ social media stuff then you won't be annoyed.

I'm interested to know how this works from the class teacher's point of view? Given the cumulative nature of learning, how do they juggle the lessons around the child who has significant gaps in basic knowledge because they weren't at school when the topic was introduced? Or more than one child, missing different things? It's difficult enough when it's unavoidable through illness, but this is deliberately creating work for the teacher (who they don't trust to educate their child fully).

Child led...right okay that's somewhat worrying, but if you can do it crack on.

I voted YABU because I only know one family who homeschools and they are not at all braggy about it - quite the opposite, they dearly wish that their child could attend school. Where are you meeting all these braggarts?

@ThisGentleRaven Well seeing as I neither home school any children or brag, thats hardly going to be the case. But you do come across insecure and defensive. I don't feel the need do obsess over other people making different choices to my own, I don't think anyone who is happy in their own life does.

What ?? I find the home ed community one if the most content and less invasive ever . I’m yet to see what you mention . I home ed my sen child years ago and my younger kids go to school now ( oldest is a adult ) . I’ m not sure if I’m missing a new trend or something but the home ed community really keeps to itself mostly .
I’ve always found the school going children parents tend to be the ones really not understanding the concept and often throwing punches and I think this post and its replies prove it with lots of ignorant remarks about GCSE’s and A levels . As someone who did both , I wish you realised it’s not a competition .

Not anything I’ve noticed, but then given home schooling is my idea of utter hell I don’t pay any attention to home schoolers. Sounds like you might be a tad jealous OP?

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Insecure? Because i touched a nerve with you?

I only follow cats too.
I don't mind their bragging.

I don't get any homeschooling videos in my feed at all. On any network.
I do get endless videos about how to break in pointe shoes and lots of videos about cats.
I suggest skipping all the home schooling reels quickly and watching more videos on cats and hopefully they will fade away from your feed x

My dc are home educated and I don’t care how anyone else chooses to educate their dc - the vast majority of parents want their dc to be safe and happy and for them to have a fulfilling childhood - I don’t feel the need to judge or comment on their choices. I might get snippy if they do not show me the same courtesy. I don’t post anything about my dc on social media.

I was home educated. My parents were low income and worked different shifts to each other, and none of the other home ed children I knew had remotely wealthy or privileged families. It's interesting to see how people view home educators. They're either feckless and neglecting their children, who will never be able to compete with school educated kids because of all the disadvantages of home education, or they're wealthy and privileged, giving their children unfair advantages and rubbing it in everyone else's faces! Make your minds up...😄
When my parents pulled me out of school, they got a lot of very negative reactions. Many people we knew got very defensive and almost took my parents' choice as a personal affront. People made a lot of doom laden predictions about my future. None of them came true. Thankfully I did well educationally and (more importantly in my opinion) had a happy childhood with plenty of friends, which hadn't been the case when I was at school.

It's rather sad you're so defensive and insecure.

I don't follow any influencers as they're, mostly, full of shit however find some homeschooling parents are a bit performative "oh we homeschool" when asked why they are on holiday with their kids mid term and then spend time at breakfast outlining, loudly, the day's plan to their brood ensuring we can all hear.

No I work around my partners shifts

I don’t know anyone who has home schooled their children, which isn’t surprising as, according to AI, only 1.4% of children are home-schooled.

But unless a child is totally exceptional in some way, it is an incredibly inefficient use of resources. Schools, like workplaces, were invented for a reason and also, by definition, socialise children, as they have to mix with other children.

And how does home Ed prepare children for uni or the workplace?

But it surely means you are wealthy enough not to need to work.

I agree with a PP. It's the ones who are educating at home because their kids are unsafe in schools, lockdowns are a new thing and woke teachers are making kids trans brigade that bug me. Posts are often littered with spelling and grammar mistakes. I dread to think what these kids will do in the future.

My child isn't only restricted to parent approved hone educated socialising. He goes to sports clubs, cadets, library club, the gym, youth club and hangs out with friends (none of which are home educated) like any non-home educated child.

People who do it out of choice rather than necessity are generally pretty odd.

“A interested parent” checking what they’re looking at isn’t actively teaching them critical thinking skills though is it? Parental controls restrict content, they’re not a means of fact checking or teaching balanced discussion.

Home education is fantastic when done well. But being able to offer that time and expertise is a position of privilege. Like private schools, the choice is there but not everyone can access it.

I'm not sure it's necessarily that. If there are influencers who are making their living that way, they will of course be selling a particular image of home education to get more followers. It may be less that they're bragging and more that they're doing what works to earn a living (in some cases - sure some are probably just bragging!)

Actually my home educating friend’s children are far more widely socialised than my schooled children. They go to three different sports classes (only one of which is in school hours/for home ed children), cub scouts/girl guides, a church group for kids, the whole family goes to a midweek church group of mainly elderly people where the kids are expected to speak to adults and make conversation and they’re all part of two bands/orchestras. One helps run a rainbows group for little kids and one is part of a home education Forest school activity. And they play out with the neighbourhood children.

They are definitely not just hanging out with other home educated kids.

I know a few home educating families, and for the most part, they’re home educating because they have children with SEN who weren’t coping with mainstream schools. Rather than choosing home educating for ideological reasons.

There is one of those who also falls into the loudly wholesome and braggy category described by OP, but I do feel that, at least for this parent, that this is driven largely by a need to justify their choices to others. Especially as they’re like that with just about everything else they do as well.

So I think the pp who suggested that sort of behaviour is often driven by insecurity has a good point.