Dd desperate to be home schooled but what work could I do from home?

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My Year 8 has for two years now been asking me to be home schooled. After the latest incident that has sent her anxiety sky rocketing, I think we should go ahead and do it.

The main problem is that I don’t know what work I could do from home (and earn enough doing it).

I am currently working as a school administrator. In general my experience is either in admin, and I have also been a primary school teaching assistant and teaching English as a foreign language teacher. I speak to foreign languages but they are bog standard EU languages and not particularly sought after.

I would like/need to be able to earn in the early 20Ks at least.

Any suggestions ?

Have you looked into working as a freelance virtual assistant OP?

Boulebaker I too know parents who HE who are self employed. OP is asking for advice on what kind of work she could do to make thsi possible?

OP I am sorry the home working I do would be an option if you were looking to doing this in 2-3 years time as you have to train and get some experience first. I don't know anything you could just slot into.

if you do school admin could you look at clerking 3 or 4 schools. Then its a few meetings to organise care for and the rest can be done at home around learning times. I think the thing to remember about home schooling is you aren't tied to 9-3 for 5 days a week, you can be much more flexible. When LA provide education other than at school, they only give 5 hours tuition and that is considered a FT education by them.

isittheholidaysyet I think you have broken the issues down well. But I am a bit aghast that you suggest leaving a 12/13 year old alone home every day while the OP works. That is a lot of hours to be alone with no one around, and especially for a child who already has issues with anxiety.

jenny

I thought I'd specifically said the opposite!
Sorry if it wasn't clear.

and leave her self-study to do whilst you are at work, if you had someone to look after her.
A grandparent for instance, might be happy to supervise the child at grandparents house, but not feel up to organising education.

Remember, she is year 8, so if someone is in the house with her, she can get her own drinks and snacks etc, it's not like a 6 year who needs constant attention and close supervision.
Great auntie Alice might not be able to cope with a 6 year old banging about and demanding all sorts of stuff, but find a 12 year old to be good company.

@isittheholidaysyet Sorry apologies, I misunderstood

Thanks a lot for all the messages. Food for thought and I will also look at the Home Ed board.

Yes I think we should look at other schools first, but won’t they all be impossible to get into?

She doesn’t have very bad anxiety, but a few things have happened with the kids in her class over the last two years that she has found very hard, and she finds the peer pressure difficult in general.

After this latest incident that has happened (long story), I think she has had enough. It doesn’t inspire me with confidence either .

We had to talk to the school end of year 8 around this time of year- her class was awful, and it was frankly getting her down - she was with them about 50% of the time.

Turns out they were completely reorganizing classes in yr 9 anyway – they were setting most things for next year – not sure how common that is but it was worth having the conversation with school and helped DD1 hang on till last few weeks when they implemented the new classes.

If you do want to move school local admission at LEA would be my first port of call – people have stated mid-year 9 in DC school but imagine it varies how possible that in in different areas.

surely going into year 9 (age 13-14) she can be left at home while you work

You don't have to be home to home school. The advantage is the opportunity to fit lessons in to suit you.

Eg.

She could do something like interhigh for core subjects (online) and then have some chores for afternoon.
Evenings could then be joint project work/socialising etc. She can learn a whole host of useful independence skills through household chores, shopping and budgeting, cooking etc.

This is your opportunity to think outside the box and incorporate your DD needs around your need to earn. To step away from the idea learning is 6 hours a day 8.30-2.30/3 at a desk in school.

She doesn’t have very bad anxiety, but a few things have happened with the kids in her class over the last two years that she has found very hard, and she finds the peer pressure difficult in general.

What has the school done to help?

I would ring other schools local to you, perhaps, as well as considering home education. Also maybe home education for a year with the possibility of school again for years 10 and 11 might be another option.

You could look at translation, it can be a decent earner and is very flexible. Plenty of videos on Youtube about getting started.

We had a similar situations with my Y8 daughter as she was struggling with anxiety and didn’t really have any friends at school. We took her out of school just before Easter and enrolled her with an online school. It worked really well for her, she liked the way of learning and the break from the social pressure of school was what she needed. At the same time we started some counselling for her and enrolled her in some clubs so she’d still be socialising. We managed to juggle things by working at home a bit and on days that wasn’t possible she was fine on her own.

She was already on the waiting list for an excellent local school. A place came up there and she started last week. She wasn’t keen to go and wanted to stay with the internet school but we said she had to give it a go and if it didn’t work out she could go back to internet school. So far things are going really well. She’s starting to make friends and seems to be really enjoying it.

My grandson was totally school phobic.
Was kept off school for ages.
He was allowed to change school.
He skips in quite happily, tells everyone he loves his new school

I can’t believe it.
His older brother went to the old school and sailed through it.

Might be worth a try