Insane rise in home schooling?

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Has anyone else noticed a huge increase in home schooling? Someone I follow in IG has just deregistered their child and I just can’t believe how many families are choosing to do this.

Of course it is sometimes the right choice for the child but it seems that more and more children are being allowed to opt out of formal education.

Teenagers need to learn that life is hard and school will throw challenges at them. How they learn to deal with this impacts how they handle things as an adult. What happens when they enter the work place and they can’t just opt out of the difficult things? Where do they learn that resilience?

I have worked in education for 20 years and whilst I agree that some aspects of the system are broken, I don’t think home schooling is the answer to this.

The social aspect alone is impossible to replicate (walking to school together, having your first crush, a detention, school trips I could go on and on…) but I also don’t see how all of these parents can have the skills to teach their children to GCSE. I also find it so insulting to teachers who spend years learning their craft. It’s not just something you can pick up and do effectively.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Ohh I see. Yes. 8 year olds are known at being excellent at assessing their peers comprehension abilities. I would totally use their judgment to make such sweeping statements.

Yeah but there is still bills/mortgage to pay, food to buy, holidays snd clothes.

I don’t think it’s disdain for the children I think it’s disdain for the school system in that they are expecting all children to behave like NT children and if they don’t conform due to being ND they are dragged through a system of repeated sanctions and isolations at school for behaviour that they cannot help. I have no disdain for NT children at all. I have a lot of disdain for the education ‘one size fits all’ system and disdain for a lot of the more strict teachers my DS has been a victim of who cannot seem to see beyond his behaviour or why he’s doing it and just give him sanctions for the slightest little mistake.

What do you think Home education is though?

Do you think it’s a nine till three kind of environment where they sit down and learn it from books?

100% and my daughter was doing this in her very expensive private school toilets. Funnily enough she still got her GCSE’s and A levels.

Quite easily, thanks

Of course! I think it's individual to each child, like most developmental stages. What age do you feel it's necessary by?

My issue is some of these children would do Perfectly well in school but the parents project their experiences. Every child matters and every child should be given the opportunity to go to school - many many children thrive (including neurodiverse ones like my son a many kids I had taught).
In about ten years there will be an explosion unemployable young adults who won't have any resilience to hold
down a job.

How would you know of a child was NT or not without offering more screening?

She does say that her daughter is studying towards iGCSEs so I assume this was an interim qualification.

I would argue that any reasonably able pupil should be able to get a grade 4-5 at GCSE level. But only 18 percent of students at our local secondary school are managing that for English and Maths. So what's going wrong?

Home schooling is being sent home from school to complete work set by school.

No, that is called homework.

Home schooling is the proper term and the term used in every single country - bar the UK. If anyone use 'home educate' in front of me I always correct them. I cannot abide 'home educate/d'.

You have that whether your child is at school or not. During the high school years you don't need to stay at home and supervise them, you can go to work still. They can and should be able to work independently with their workbooks and online lessons without you being there.

During the high school years you don't need to stay at home and supervise them, you can go to work still. They can and should be able to work independently with their workbooks and online lessons without you being there.

I think the poster was asking if you weren't at work to home educateva child then you lose an income So unless you have another parent earning well then it's not really possible. And what if it's a single parent? I don't think you get Benefits to stay home and teach your own kids

Cra pschool obviously. Our local run of mill comp is 72%°

Awww imagine being so blinkered by the education system that you can’t see that it’s no longer fit for purpose. Many parents are being FORCED to Home Educate as it’s the best for their children. Maybe change the schooling so it’s no longer dated on the Victorian prison system and then come back to me

If I could afford it I’d send my kids to private school. Their school is good for a state one but it’s very boring, doesn’t have the resources it should and I have considered home schooling more and more. Plus, with the changes to the world now, traditional education is very old fashioned. Are we teaching them what they need to know? I don’t think so.

And if your child self harms and threatens suicide because of the bullying? Is that oK, just part of growing up. Of course if the suicide works they don't grow up do they.

I would have homeschooled my 4dc if there had been issues with school. I am well educated and would have done my research. There are many homeschooling groups which offer the chance to socialise and do specialist subjects. As it was they were all able to attend private schools at secondary which catered for their needs. I do think there should be some external supervision.

You're completely right OP, I think home schooling shcould be illegal as it is in several countries. Should schools be better? Absolutely. Is the answer taking your kids out at the first sign of trouble when you don't know what you're doing ? Obviously not. But the usual ND brigade will shout you down because these days everyone's child is special and unable to cope.

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So given that children are more at risk with their parents (and mostly step-parents/partners) why do we not force every child into childcare in order to make them statistically safer?

It must follow that if children are safer in childcare, anyone who chooses to care for their children at home must be monitored. We must have a list of home cared for under 5s.

Children under 5 are much more at risk than older school aged children because they are less verbal and able to seek help.

I really don't think people take their children home at the first sign of trouble!

It is. But this is the reality that lots of families are facing. You either move, go private, home educate or you have to send your child to a failing school.

My kids have left school. If they were still of school age i would home school. The schools where I live are now dangerous. The amount of fighting and gangs is awful. The schools dont teach maths, English computers etc things theyre meant to teach its more political, sexual habits ,gender etc. Theres more discipline about what pronouns are used ( pupils who use the wrong pronouns are given detention) than pupils smoking drugs and selling them. Fighting is always going on, the teachers are too scared to intervene and its only after a parent phones the police is anything even attempted to stop it. Nothing ever happens. It's basically a free for all but by law you have to send them. There are dealers outside the schools that the school is to afraid to report because of repercussions.

Do share your evidence to back this up.