Are you going to have a generation of Home Educated kids by parents who are not up to it?

[Thegrinchshorriblesister]

I’ve been on Home Education sites for a few years as was momentarily considering it but decided against it. The crowd was great, informative, inclusive and lots of resources were shared.

I noticed at the beginning of lockdown the member counts shot up as obviously people wanted help during lockdown. Then September came and there have been a noticeable rise in those parents deregistering their kids and asking for help regarding issues with stubborn LA or meeting resistance from their families. Or posters saying they have no access to laptops or printers and what phone apps can they use for online materials.

However - a lot of these posts are written in really poor grammar. A lot of people are clearly not set up for the huge commitment that HE is.

There is a very different feel on the site now, very much ‘us against the system’, lots of memes about having children and farming them out to be drones or robots, or not loving your children because you have teachers raise them.

It’s making me wonder will there be a generation of kids that never sit any exams and go in to adulthood with no real kind of education or children who are stuck with adults that have these views making their world very small.

Hardbackwriter I don't mean that children should get their education from the internet. But parents can access complete curriculums for free using the internet and libraries. Saying that "all children should be encouraged to use libraries " isn't the point. I am not talking about merely being "encouraged to use" libraries. I am saying that parents can access plenty of free learning materials at libraries. You don't have to follow the National Curriculum when you home educate but if you want to you will be able to do that using libraries.

I'm not sure why you think bad grammar is a set back in parents home educating. I can tell you I've seen some shockers from teachers Roll Play anyone? I see you brung your teddy to school. Don't get me started on the degree in pottery enabling to teach primary.
I'm also surprised you think h.ed kids don't take exams, they manage to dodge SATS but they can take any exam they please, unlike schools.

I think an entire generation is dramatic but you're right to think that home education is a huge commitment and lots of families simply don't have the resources to do it properly. I know home ed families who are great especially for kids who couldn't cope in mainstream and would have ended up permanently damaged. They do ensure their kids socialise and are educated by people who are capable of doing so.

DH and I are very well eductaed (both have PhDs) and could do a brilliant job at educating our DC in certain subjects - definitely way better than school, but we'd be miserably deficient in others. I also think our kids benefit by being taught by people who are different from us as parents. At home I'd probably ended surrounding our DC with like minded families.

Entering as an independent candidate is always somewhat complex. Finding exam centres that will do it, and so on.

This year though, home-educated kids entered as independent candidates in this summer's season got totally screwed over, because they didn't have teachers to give them predicted grades.

@JamieVardysHavingAParty

Entering as an independent candidate is always somewhat complex. Finding exam centres that will do it, and so on.

This year though, home-educated kids entered as independent candidates in this summer's season got totally screwed over, because they didn't have teachers to give them predicted grades.

Some were able to get predicted grades, mainly those who had used tutors known to the exam centres.