thinkin of homeschoolin my 12 year old

[andrea666]

i work part time to im single mum, doin alot of research on homeschooling and seemsloads better than pressure they get at school, my daughter just started big school hates going always upset, my friend homeschools er daughter and best thing she ever did, wanted no if other single mums homeschooled older child

Do let us know how you get on Andrea. Wishing you and your daughter all the best hunz.

So glad I came on Mumsnet tonight. Well done @andrea666

Trip, trap

Has your daughter had these problems only since she started big school? How did she get on at little school?

Good luck with home schoolin

to in it a is

Yes, many home educating parents are single. Ask your friend to take you along to some local home ed groups so you can meet people and discuss it. There are also Facebook groups where you can chat about it, but I think it is especially helpful to talk in person as you can cover more ground that way. It is also useful to find out how much is going on locally in terms of social and educational opportunities for her.

Since your daughter is unhappy, it is certainly an option worth considering. Now is a good time to try it out, so you can see how you get on. If it doesn't suit, she could return to school. However, if you leave it another few years and end up removing a very distressed teen from school during Y10, it represents a bigger challenge. Firstly, if home ed doesn't work out then it's very tough to rejoin school after missing part of the GCSE prep. Second, if she is eager to do GCSEs at the "usual" age then you'll be quickly scrambling to navigate the tricky landscape of arranging to sit GCSEs as a private candidate.

Take her out now, and you have time to experiment while the stakes are low. You can start to get to grips with all the exams stuff. By the time she's 14, you will have a better idea of whether home educating through exams is viable for you and how you'll go about it. As a backup plan, she could go back to school then, having had a few years off to learn in a less stressful environment.

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Yeh u shld do it for your little one

Good luck hun

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