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To think that most people actually do understand, and therefore support, home education...

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PennyRa · 05/12/2022 21:59

And it's just a loud minority that are ignorant?

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sashh · 08/12/2022 04:50

Clarabe1 · 05/12/2022 22:13

Sorry but I have never met a home schooled kid who isn’t a bit odd. Maybe it can work if you make a huge effort to make sure they are socialising with their peers and enrol them in sports programs so they can learn about teamwork but otherwise it’s a huge no from me.

Don't You think the 'oddness' is why the child is home educated?

I would have loved it as a school hating child, and I can see benefits of different forms of education.

I watch a lady on YouTube who, amongst other things, HE her children.

For her it is at least partly because the family are Orthodox Jewish, so the children have a 'school holiday' for the Jewish holidays.

She also doesn't have a schedule, she has things for the children to do but they can do it in any order and they don't have a set time to get up or go to bed.

She does use some outside tutors eg the children have piano lessons.

Sherrystrull · 08/12/2022 07:16

Nevermindthesquirrels · 07/12/2022 23:39

@Sherrystrull I've never taught KS1. I left schools a while ago and only do private dyslexia work on top of my completely out of education day job. But I tend to work within the child's lesson content and most of my kids are in y2/3. I don't have much to do with Reception and Y1 though as my work tends to start once the kids are 6/7 so this is all just from observation and experience.
I agree, it is poor and I know it's not like this everywhere. I've mostly seen it in free schools and academies. I feel sorry for the teachers. They try very hard but its often pre prepared lesson plans by the higher ups, things ordered in bulk to all academies to cut costs and a tick box exercise that all content of framework has been met. It's depressing.

I've never taught in an academy so luckily my school provides much more autonomy and ability to tailor planning towards our own classes. The government have so much to answer for within education.

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