Temporary H-Eding

[humanoctopus]

Hi.
Due to ill health, my ds will be missing a good bit of school. He's not bothered by that, as long as he gets to see his friends!
School haven't been too accomodating, and I am finding it hard to communicate his needs to the head.
I am kind of stuck, in that he is too tired to go in to school in the morning, and school is out for the day at 2.30. The head wants him to come in part time, but the day is nearly over by the time he would be up to attending.
So, we are looking at home education, at first instance on a temporary basis. Not a problem for us, we would feel ok about it.
Has anyone ever home edded one child in the family, while sending the other children into the original school?
Part of me feels that it would be weird, sending the others in while he was being educated at home. Any thoughts or ideas welcome.

That sounds like a good idea to me!

Are you keen to keep your son's school place? If so, then you might prefer to stay "in the system" and not deregister him from school. The LA is supposed to provide some tuition if he is off ill in the long term. (This is usually called Education Otherwise Than at School, or EOTAS.) If the head hasn't got the ball rolling on that by informing the Local Authority that your son is too ill to attend regularly, maybe you should ring the LA directly and ask them to make arrangements. I don't know exactly what the process is, but they will be able to tell you.

On the other hand if you are happy to go it alone and not worried about his school possibly being full when he wants to return, you'll have more freedom to educate your son in whatever way you want if you deregister him from school. (This is called Elective Home Education.)

Is it weird? Well, you don't have any other realistic options than to keep your lad off school if he isn't up to going. It seems to me that the only choice you really have to make is whether to remain "in the system" or not. It's weird that he is ill and his siblings aren't, but I guess that is life.

It does feel slightly strange at first with one in and the others out. At one stage I had one in and one out. The irritating bit for me was that I still had to race back from whatever activity we were doing to pick older ds up! But you get used to it. Be prepared though, you may find yourself wanting the others out or vice versa

Hi.

Weve done ds1 H.E ds2 school ds3 a baby

ds1&2 home edded ds3 a baby

ds2 H.E ds1 at school ds3 too young

ds2,DS3 h.e ds1 at school.

ds3 h.e ds1 at college and ds2 at school.

Mostly thriough ill health but now through choice.

It will be ok you just have to do what suits best for your family....at the moment ds3 is home edded really ds2 isnt upto school healthwise but he persists in the challenge so i think whilst theres a push in him to get to school,he must be at school.

I have done that before, one at school, and the other one home-educated, albeit only for a few months. This was more due to external factors and the situation we found ourselves in at the time, so I wasn't really a home-educator by conviction, but it worked just fine. We met some very interesting people while home-educating, and it was fascinating to learn that almost everyone did it for a different reason.
I found that my kids were very accepting of their different situations, neither envied the other one.
And I have often found that kids are a lot more adaptable than we give them credit for.