To think Home Education should be made illegal

[Viviennemary]

I would like to see a ban on HE except perhaps in a very very few cases and with good reason and under strict supervision.

You don’t sit the exams at home! You go to a test centre and they are invigilated like any other formal qualification.

I'd home ed my DD if I had the skills and money, mostly because I don't like some of the stuff she'd potentially get taught and the lack of transparency around some of the lesson plans, especially from outsourced providers who can claim copyright violation if their materials get shared with parents. I think this is dodgy AF. I'd like the right to know everything my daughter is being taught and the right to remove her from a lesson if I don't think she should be learning about that topic.

Many children in traditional school settings don't meet minimum standards!

They miss out on so much by going to school.

Cultural holidays at an affordable price.
Mixed age learning and tribal community where they learn from those older and younger than them
Independent learning
Varied curriculum and abilities to tailor to personal strength and interest at a younger age
More family time

I think there's a place for both.
My preference is part time school which is the best of all worlds in my opinion, as they make friends, follow a curriculum for 80% of the time and have 1 day to specialise and be independent while having more family time.

I definitely think there needs to be checks on children’s welfare who don’t attend school. Especially those who have been known to social services at anytime who are taken out of a school setting to be educated at home.

Many parents who HE do so because there aren’t appropriate settings available to their children. We need to solve that issue first and foremost before we start doing more harm
than good by forcing those children into educational settings which might be harmful to them.

It is not bollocks. Universities used to be far more accepting when there were few HE children. Then admission policies were fairly flexible. Since the number of HE children has rapidly increased, universities have become stricter with their policies towards HE children.
You will still find universities who will offer a place. There is a university close to me who gives places to students with only D grades in GCSE for some courses. But if you want a good university, or admission to a highly sought after course, then the admissions policies are very unlikely to be flexible.

I think home education is right for some children. There are some who would not thrive at school - one size doesn’t fit all.

But home settings should be vetted and checked like school settings are.

iGCSEs are equivalent to GCSEs and they're sat at exam centres in exactly the same way.

What? Would you also apply that to schooled children who don't pass 5 GCSEs?

I don't agree but I DO think that DC being home schooled should be registered as such with The Council.
I was listening to a piece about it on Womand Hour on R4 yesterday and when the idea of registration was put to the Mum being interviewed about HS her children her main issue seemed to be that the kids would be "in the system". The interviewer pressed her on it but she really couldn't answer. To be honest she didn't come across well at all - I think religion played a part too in her decision.
I think its fine to Homeschool but there do need to be some checks and oversight

What’s the ‘I’ in igcse then? I thought it was ‘internet’. Or what’s different about it?

You don’t sit the exams at home? An IGCSE is sat in the same way as a GCSE.

Stands for "international" as they are recognised internationally. GCSEs are only recognised in UK

So you are talking about years ago then? Teacher training has changed a lot.

Do you work in university admissions? Because you are talking nonsense. I have known home educated children (in recent years) admitted to Oxbridge with GCSEs taken across several years.

When I lectured at Uni 90% of the module failures seemed to be home schooled students - they were totally unprepared for the rigours of higher learning.

Home-Ed children can do IGCSEs (internationally recognised) or standard GCSEs. They can also start A-Levels/degree courses if they like.

I'm surprised you had so many home educated children on your course as to be able to make that assertion tbh.

Banking home education would be the government asserting the rights of ownership of children. It's a completely different thing from keeping a watchful eye on children.

LEAs already have a statutory duty to check up on children being home-schooled, but children are falling through the gaps because they may live in one LEA, and be going to school in another, before being withdrawn from school to be home educated.

No, because that's a failure of the state so it wouldn't be fair to penalise them on that basis.

Ten years.

No- she didn’t. My parents were teachers and support her Mon-Wed and me Thurs-Fri. She’s now very independent though and most of her lessons are live, online- she just gets on with it. Our main tasks are getting her to tutors for 1:1s or to clubs, also eloping her revise/do homework.

Taking exams early/splitting them isn’t an issue for GSCEs. It does apply for A levels.