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StudentNurse3 · 2022-09-22T10:33:22+00:00

My DS has been home educated from the start. He is 15 now.

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StudentNurse3 · 24/09/2022 22:20

5zeds · 24/09/2022 21:22

@StudentNurse3 Yes, he is autistic. I don't see many of them these days! But a large proportion have additional needs. Out of his close friendship group, I think almost all have some kind of additional need, whether that be autism, ADHD, dyslexia
This is our experience too. Do you think if schools were more suited to these difficulties that you and he would have enjoyed him going?

Yes, quite possibly. I have had lots of happy times home educating him, but also times when I would have loved to delegate it all to school!

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StudentNurse3 · 24/09/2022 22:25

NumericalBlock · 24/09/2022 22:07

That's it exactly, there isn't just one route to get a job or a career, and the pressure at 13yo to choose what subjects for gcse so that you can do the a levels you want to do the degree you want is immense!

I am mostly enjoying it, struggling a bit as we've just moved away from our lovely friends and our 'village' so to speak, but we're closer to family which the kids are loving! We were busy the first half of September so we've literally just started new groups last week! But the people we've met so far have all been lovely :) we're all over forest school, I am an fsl3 so will be running some in the near future I hope! Work I love that I can drag them to with me 😁We have beach school where we are too and it's amazing, so looking forward to it!

We are big on sensory play still too, both DC love anything involving water and soap so we get immersed in that often!

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Sounds wonderful. I can imagine it being quite daunting moving away from your home-ed community but great to hear you have started to make new friends. Oh, lovely that you'll be running forest school - what fun! You have so much to look forward to! ☺️

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BillHadersLeftEye · 24/09/2022 22:36

Locely thread.
We flexi-school at the moment. Might shift to full home Ed in the future.
I just wish there was less focus on the school system being the only acceptable education (2.5 hours a day actually learning in amongst the admin - what a waste of time) and less rush to churn them out at 16 or 18

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StudentNurse3 · 24/09/2022 22:55

BillHadersLeftEye · 24/09/2022 22:36

Locely thread.
We flexi-school at the moment. Might shift to full home Ed in the future.
I just wish there was less focus on the school system being the only acceptable education (2.5 hours a day actually learning in amongst the admin - what a waste of time) and less rush to churn them out at 16 or 18

Yes, I agree. It doesn't suit all DC. There should be more flexibility and different routes and not the insane pressure to pass set numbers of exams at set times or else!

What is your schedule for flexi-schooling? Was the school very open to it? How is it going?

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