advice wanted please , how to approach the school

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how best to approach the school with regards to flexi schooling ?

ds2 is 11 and started high school in september. it has not gone very well and i have been feeling that my only alternative is to home school. i am really unsure of this though and i now think that flexi schooling could be the answer for us , at least for a while until we know home ed alone is the right path to take.

how would i go about this though?

What parts of school would you want him to go in for? And what would you prefer him to drop? How does that fit in with the school weekly timetable? I think the school would be more amenable to considering it if you can show that you've thought through both the educational and the practical issues, and can give them a fairly well thought out proposal on how you see it working, and what the benefits are to both sides.

DS was flexi-schooled last year (equivalent of AS year in England), but in his case it was just a matter of being out of school for one "column" of his timetable, and it was the column where some pupils were released to a college for courses the school doesn't run so it was two afternoons a week, not complicated to achieve.

Also, he was spending the time to work on his music, working towards a Grade 8 exam, so the school could see what he was using the time for, not something vague. TBH I think they were most concerned about not setting a precedent for other children hoping to "skip lessons" as much as they cared what he was doing IYSWIM?