Thinking taking DC (Yr8) out of secondary school and homeschooling. They are not happy to go to school, struggling to fit in despite being well liked, have a recently diagnosed medical condition which flares up at school due to stress, attendance this year has been below 60% due to side effects from medical condition.
Much happier at home and medical condition stable. Has friends but not interested in socialising outside of school as says they’re immature. Older adult siblings at home.
DC is very advanced and complains of being bored at school as well.
I have no doubt they could take GCSEs next year independently via online learning and progress onto A Levels well before age 16.
Homework is always done to a high level with no chasing from me, even when off school, consistently gets top marks in class tests despite low attendance. They have also done some GCSE test papers for fun and got A equivalent passes.
Plan is to include going to the gym 3/4 times a week and an evening activity with peers like Cadets or martial arts although this will be under duress probably.
I will be working part time remotely so at home.
Never did I ever think I’d be leaning to this and certainly wouldn’t have with my older DC.
Concerned DC may not as well as he would with a qualified teacher on hand though as I only have GCSEs so wouldn’t be much help (although I don’t think DC will need it).
What could go wrong?