To think if you home educate a child, you (the parent) are the educater?

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I have absolutely no issues with Home Ed and in fact see it largely as a positive.

What I am upset about is the fact a student of mine has been withdrawn from the school I teach at to be educated at home. As indicated above, I am supportive of this if the parents feel it is right.

However, I apparently have to set her work, and mark it,

Surely that's not right? As if she is educated at home then - well, as the name suggests!

Or AIBU?

grey

Sorry. I meant you sound a bit down and unable to get the info you need.

What it sounds like, is that as previous posters have said, the child is still registered at school, so still is responsibility of school. The reason for absence from school is understandably, confidential.
Somewhere, there should be a much stronger link at the school between child and OP, to give the OP who is working in the dark on this a better level of support.

We were sent home work when we withdrew ds2 from his primary. He was not removed from the school roll until he was given a new placement a few months later even though our intention (which the school knew) was never to send him back to the school. Just because ds2 could not cope in a mainstream classroom did not remove his right to be educated but getting the support in place to enable that to happen takes a long time ( minimum six months for statement (EHCP) and likely longer if the LEA fight you and you have to appeal for statement or placement which can then easily take it to over a year). Not sure how else we could have referred to his education at that point other than home education because he was at home.

Situations like this are not unique. I'd say it's virtually impossible to be outed from my experience of 15 years teaching. Sounds to be like she isn't home educated but rather B code on the register and it will be temporary. Educated at home will be off roll. She'll disappear from the register. So whilst it sounds like YNBU you have to open SIMS and find out.

Pupils are entitled to 5 hours of tuition a week at Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1,2 and 3. This increases to 6 hours at Key Stage 4.

That is the minimum they're entitled to. In fact they are entitled to much more provided they're up to it healthwise. The starting point is full time education, but the guidance recognises that a bit less would be appropriate if the child is getting one to one tuition as that is pretty intensive.