Can you home ED if you both work?

[JohnMcCainsDeathStare]

Something I am thinking as a back-up option, particularly with my DS1 who has ASD and anxiety. I hope that the local schools will suffice for secondary and he has got SEN support but is home Ed possible between two part-time working parents at secondary level?
There are subjects we can teach but we would definately want to join a Home Ed group as well if this is the case.
So is this possible?

Depends what hours you work?

Fairly standard but we are both scientists so we can do a significant amount remote if we focus practical work at work and text/email based work at home.

I can't imagine how. If you work from home, you're working. Therefor unable to educate your child in a fair and realistic way.
I'd should think most HE parents do t work during the core 'schooling' hours.

Only you know if you have enough time 🤷‍♀️ surely one of you needs to be there everyday. I have 3 teenagers and they would be on the PlayStation all day unless I was there to teach them. Are you able to teach at GCSE level? I certainly couldn't.

If we were HE we would be working part time. We could potentially do maths and physics (non lab aspects) up to GCSE. We could also cover PE in terms of fitness not the formal GCSE

Might you and your child be better off if you both worked full (ish) time and looked at private school?

How about a fee paying online school? I have no idea of cost but a friend uses this company and her dd is extremely happy. She is, however, supposed to work independently. Lessons are live but can be watched later. Students can ask public or private questions at any time.
interhigh.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQiApvbhBRDXARIsALnNoK25SVQGaVhjcAfrf7XBo4t4x1a_lDFamVmsqUFT8jfPuSxDPfCwyE4aAue1EALw_wcB

In all honesty I think you're trying to cram
Too much in to do either very well

What about English and History teaching? Or foreign languages? I think home edition works best where each parent has different academic strengths and can buy in tutoring for areas where neither is particularly adept.
There's no real reason why you would have to stick to core school hours all the time, but if you and dh could work on different days, that would maybe work better if your child prefers normal school days.
You have to consider whether you'd have the energy and enthusiasm after a day at work. Also being knowledgeable doesn't mean you will necessarily be able to teach your DC. I'd do a lot of research into GCSE requirements and see how responsive your child is to being taught by a parent. Sometimes with my DC they would argue with me when I was trying to help them, then do exactly what I'd said to do, as soon as the teacher said it!

If we did HE we would join a group with other HE people. That way they would have some classroom experience and I thought that generally you can pool resources and expertise for those who have specialism and hire tutors to share and fill the gaps.

I'm sure your employers would not be impressed if you were teaching at the same time as you are being paid to work

What about other subjects like English? That you made a spelling error on definitely is a worry and don't try to explain it as a typo.

I would arrange aspects like that beforehand that and the fact I'm typing on a phone which I'd as laggy as hell HE part time isn't the same as moonlighting and I'm only exploring the possibilities. It's not like I would expect to be paid for it.

What I really need to know is to hear from other HE people. I just need to get some idea of what the practicalities are.

I think it depends if you were working 2x full days and your DP was doing the same but different days, so you basically tag team the HE. It's a bit different if you work 10-3 every day, same as your DP.

It depends on the SEN, but if things might take longer to teach, surely you need more time at home to HE, not to squeeze it in around home working, emails etc.

I would also expect that HE groups meet during the day as the vast majority would HE during daytime hours. Tutors might work evenings and weekends though, but I guess you wouldn't want to be working all week, then having your kid with a tutor lots in the evening and weekends as you wouldn't get to see them much.

Maybe take some annual leave and go along to a local HE group and chat to them?

We both worked part time around ours when we home edded. I did 18 hrs per week over 3 short days, DH did 3 days lecturing and 2 days from home. The latter days could be weekend/evening work as and when.

There was one day that we clashed on and used a childminder, kids were 7 and 5 at that point. It was lovely, we both had an active role in being with them instead of it all being on one person's head.

Whether I worked or not I wouldn’t want to home educate tbh.

Why don't you post on the home education section?

If you want to find out from home ed people, have a look on some of the facebook groups - lots of useful info there. They tend not to hang out much on mumsnet

You’d be better asking on the home education board. Plenty of parents work part time and home educate, i would imagine helps if you have someone able to help with child care during your working hours for younger children but it’d probably be easier from secondary. I assume the majority of responses here are from people who don’t home educate as there are no ‘core schooling hours’ nor do you need to be ‘teaching’. Depending on how structured you wanted to be and how old your child is it might be worth looking at online learning, workbooks, having projects to work on, watching documentaries if you’re working from home, although you don’t need to be ‘doing school’ during set hours. There are loads of home ed workshops and activities round here and I’d guess in most areas so it’d be worth considering whether you’d be able to take him to things that’d interest him and allow him to meet other home educated children.

If you’re on Facebook most areas have a local home ed group where you can find out what’s available in your area.

I second the suggestion to look at an online school. My friend and her partner work shifts so they are home part of the day, their 12 year old is in an online program so when they're home they are more supervising rather than having to teach. Seems to be working well.

What about other subjects like English? That you made a spelling error on definitely is a worry and don't try to explain it as a typo.

Or what? What will happen if OP explains it as a typo?

Come to the home ed board OP. Then you won't have to read nonsense like that and it is nonsense given that there are regular threads on here about teacher spelling mistakes and mistakes in school correspondence. Do all of those mistakes mean none of those teachers have any teaching capabilities?

OP I have a child with ASD who simply could not continue in a school environment. Sometimes there is no choice left and people need to understand that. Mainstream school does not work for all children.

We use Wolsey Hall. Inter high was not for him as he still had to engage in an on line classroom environment and he was too anxious. We are doing well with Wolsey Hall, they don't harass you to engage with them but at the same time are very responsive when you do need them. It's working well for us.

wolseyhalloxford.org.uk

I might check out the HE board, however this is still very much a plan B for secondary education. I hope to have him I'm mainstream school as does he.

Anyone else have an Autocorrect that's a bit nuts?

People do but it will be very hard. If you try it make sure to think of a backup plan for if it is just too much.

TBH unless it's something YOU really want to do I would exhaust every other option first.

My eldest has ASD really struggled at primary school leading to school related anxiety and CAMHS input.

I was dreading secondary school and couldn't imagine her coping at all, but really didn't want to HE, plus both DH and I work.

I applied and got an EHCP for her, got her into a supportive mainstream secondary, and after a few teething problems in the first term she is actually doing ok and says it's much better than primary school!

Obviously she has a long way to go and I'm 100% sure the road ahead is going to be difficult for her, but I'm astounded every day at how well it's going so far.