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Just taken Ds and Dd out of school to home ed

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mummybiz · 17/01/2011 14:24

Just looking for a bit of support - my son 7 has been bullied very badly and my final meeting with the headteacher today in which she basically said she had asked the culprit and the dinnerladies who had said nothing had happened so shecould find no evidence to say he had been bullied - the child is a child of a member of staff at school(not a teacher)and knoen to be very badly behaved. My ds who is 5 has hated school since starting fulltime as her class is very chaotic (kids standing on windowsills at hometime ?!)so she won't miss it - I have 5 children so not too worried about socialisation etc and I taught as a primay teacher for 14 years so guess I am qualified (!!!) . I am sure it the right thing to do but it's a big step - my other daughter is in Year 6 and will be leaving in the summer and is fine so we will leave her in till then. Any advice gratefully recieved...

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ommmward · 17/01/2011 17:48

Relax!

Enjoy!!!

Allow at least a month of recovery time for every year spent in school before you even think about doing anything 'academic'

Read THomas and Pattison "How children learn at home"

Forget everything you learned as a primary teacher - it's really not going to be very relevant to home-based learning :)

And congratulations!

YeButerfleogeEffete · 17/01/2011 17:50

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julienoshoes · 17/01/2011 17:53

Welcome to the world of home ed!

There are a few threads here that you may have already read, but I'll bump them to be sure, with suggestions of books and websites to look at.

My best advice would be to forget about doing anything schooly, for quite a while-your lad has had a bad time at school and needs time to get that out of his system and realise that learning and life are fun!

There is an article on Deschooling which might be of help.

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mummybiz · 17/01/2011 17:58

Thanks everyone - I feel like a weight is gradually lifting from my shoulders and I am staring to feel really positive about the whole thing - DH is a secondary teacher so it feels weird taking them "out of the system" but the system is failing them badly so it is the right thing to do - we're in Batley West Yorkshire so will put out feelers for other local home edders as suggested :~)

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mummybiz · 17/01/2011 18:00

Sorry about my typos - has been a stressful day !!

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JulesFox · 18/01/2011 18:22

We live in Halifax and you will find there are plenty of activities and people to meet up with in the area. Click this link and join the group to see what's on.
groups.yahoo.com/group/WYHEC/
Looking forward to meeting up with you.

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mummybiz · 19/01/2011 07:01

Thanks for this - will join up !!

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Nihou · 19/01/2011 22:50

I was fascinated to read your post since it really mirrors our experience - my daughter has only 2 days left of her school, having been bullied. The school has been very inept at tackling it. I'm going to be home educating and know noone else doing it. If you happen to be in the South London area I'd love to know how you get on.

Nihou · 19/01/2011 22:52

Oops, just realised that you are nowhere near South london! Blush

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mummybiz · 20/01/2011 07:35

More than happy to update our progress via here - first two days have been very strange but at the same time liberating and brilliant - we have already done a bit of "school" work - some story writing for the older one and emergent writing for the little one because they wanted to do some "school work".Lots of the other things we have done so far have come from their suggestions- They have been online and we researched why are Granny Smith's apples called granny smiths!! We had an afternoon at our local countryside park which has a sculpture of coal miners which led to some more internet research when we got back about children down the mines in Victorian times. I have a massive sense of relief and they are 100% happier and getting on like a house on fire after months of bickering. Yesterday lunchtime when I was sat with my 5 month old watching them come down a giant slide in the park (knowing they would have been in the school playground trying to avoid the bullying for which the headteacher found " no evidence") I knew we would never regret this decision.

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ommmward · 20/01/2011 13:16

THat's so great to read!

Nihou, there are loads of HEdders in south london - look on the thread about how to find HEdders in your area :-)

Saracen · 20/01/2011 14:45

Aw mummybiz, that almost makes me cry! What a wonderful start. I'm delighted for you.

People often find HE a bit rocky in the beginning as they settle into a new way of doing things. You may not find every day goes as smoothly as the last two, but you've already seen what it can be like! I'm sure you and your boys have many pleasant days ahead of you.

BITCAT · 03/02/2011 19:31

im thinking about doing the same..im being bullied by school..for no reason other than they have it in for me. I believe they can learn much more about life skills from parents than they can at school. Im sick of school trying to take over my role, im all for healthy eating, but they have gone too far. Im not going to put food in my kids lunchbox that they arent going eat.They need to eat something and i have a very fussy eater, and 3 others that will eat anything.
Can anyone enlighten me about how much it will cost to he..ie exams etc!!

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