Anyone loved home schooling so much they're thinking of carrying on with it?

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I just wondered if anyone had so much enjoyed the experience that they were thinking of making it permanent. I have seen on here how much some people have enjoyed it, and have felt that it's benefited their DC so was just wondering.

Just to show my hand, I am absolutely not. Our children will be back in full-time as soon as they are allowed.

I am genuinely interested to know how you do two jobs and successfully home educate?

I'd love to carry on. I can genuinely see the benefits, but sadly it isn't possible for my family. I'm genuinely sad that it's coming to an end

No. I am failing DD2. She needs constant supervision, explanations, walked through everything, cajoled, encouraged etc etc. The nature of my job means I am chained to my computer, and if I lose my train of thought when typing an email, it can take me forever to get back into it.

I end up logging off after a days work, cooking our evening meal, then doing schoolwork with her until 8, sometimes 9pm.

My eldest, though only 12 has been a dream. She is self-motivated, cool as a cucumber, appearing every so often to show me beautifully written pieces of work, then disappearing off before she is made to play teacher to her sister.

I know of several parents of children in DD2's class who are actively hot-housing their children and this adds to the guilt. The teacher constantly praises them on Teams. Roll on tomorrow when I can stop being stressy teacher and go back to being Mum.

I home ed anyway so will happily continue.
Lockdown has changed how we do things, we are currently more structured than we have ever been because we aren’t out at groups through the week. My dc miss being out with friends and we don’t know when things will change so groups can resume. I think like schools, home ed will look different for a long while with people just meeting with small groups those they know in parks etc instead of being able to go to the usual groups or classes. I think it will be difficult for anyone new to home ed who doesn’t already have home ed friends to meet up with.

I have considered it, yes. One DC has SEN and it would suit him in some ways, I think. My other DC is desperate to go back! Both primary age.

They’ll both be going back to school in September and we’ll see how it goes

We deregistered my daughter at Christmas and I have loved having my son here as well. We are quite unstructured so it's been so nice to give him the space to find out about things that he's interested in rather than what the curriculum says he should be learning. I will genuinely be gutted if he decided to go back in September. He is a different child. He's happy, he sleeps, he has learnt to cook, sew, garden. But it has to be his choice.

I am in Switzerland where schools have reopened. We were enthusiastic about home schooling for the first weeks but the novelty really wore off and my single child DC was probably even happier than us parents when school was back.

Absolutely not. I work. DH works (both from home at the mo). DS1 will allow me to help him with schoolwork only, not DH who has no patience.
DH is supposed to be in charge of DS2 because his workload is much smaller (DS2s workload, as he's still in primary) but he's shit at it, which means both of them are relying on me. And I need to work!

Short answer No

Long answer Not in a million years

The schools have been great but trying to get DS (7) to sit down and actually do the work is tempting me to take up drinking again having stopped for nearly 4 years. Yet all school have to say is he's got really good concentration and behaves well all the time for them..

DD (14) is missing school so much its heart breaking and she hates distance learning and hunching over a laptop all day

Fuck no.

Our headmaster has suggested we consider carrying on home schooling my SN child

My youngest i would send to boarding school tomorrow. Maybe in Australia for a few months. She would argue the sky is pink for me. At school she's hardworking and focussed.

Eldest... 1-1 works well for her, and going at her pace. But only on stuff she wants to do. I know home ed allows you to follow their lead, but there are basics that need covering. Overall, I think school is better for now. See how September goes.