Need some quick advice- just taken DD out of school!

[CaisleanDraiochta]

I posted recently about Home edding DD from Yr4 (sept2014) but the events of this weekend and this morning have led to me bringing her back home from school instead of leaving her today.

So now what? i'm not sure she will be going back tomorrow or not- or if she ever will- should I be contacting anyone or anything legally important I should be doing right now?

Other than that DD is quite happily sitting at the table next to me doing a maths workbook. she has asked to do literacy next and guided reading this afternoon. i'm guessing this was the timetable at school for today, but if that's what she wants to do I'm happy to just let her do that for now.

I am panicking slightly but distracting myself with doing mega tidying up (not a bad thing)

Briefly, a positive anecdotal story.

I took DS out of school in Year 1. He was exrtremely anxious, and had become a selective mute. School was useless - when I refused the option to accelerate him 2 years (so to transfer from the Y1/2 to the Y3/4 class), I was told 'he will never again go to a mainstream school.

HE mended him. The anxiety gradually dissipated. I got the child I knew back again. It was hard - DD was a preschooler - but we managed.

He went back into school, in a different school in a different town, after a term and a half. Had it not been successful, he would have been out again like a shot.

He thrived. The HE, far from being the 'educaional disaster' many predicted, just made him himself again, ready to start afresh, whereas transferring schools immediately would not have worked.

HE does not have to be 'for always'. But it can be EXACTLY the right thing for a particular moment.

Hello Caislean

I know this is the least of your worries atm but considering only you have the answer about what to do I thought I'd add.

Groups and activities that that your dc are involved with through the LEA they are able to continue through H.ed, or of course join new ones.

My dd goes to lots of them, at least one most days.
Letting them choose some, without peer pressure is good too.

How's it going Caislean? Did your DS go to school? Is your DD happier at home?

A job where you could take your DC along sounds ideal! Would they be able to be fairly self directed whilst you were there so you could get on with your work, do you think?

Yes DS has still been going to school, the lure of the science trip this week is what is keeping him there. He is still adamant that he wants to be home educated though, so we have agreed that when I officially de-register DD (looking like it may be Easter holidays), I will take him out too. He is happy with that and of course he knows he can change his mind at any time and I will support his decision whatever that is.

The job would be working for a children's charity that run after school clubs and holiday play schemes (hence more hours during school holidays), so taking my own DC along would be no problem! It's not based in school and the setting is slightly unusual as it tries to follow the principles of playwork and be as child-led as is possible. So children are encouraged to be self-directed all the time, with the adults there just to facilitate their play. And of course supervise them and keep them safe, although some of the activities the children are allowed to do (climbing trees, playing with fire, building dens out of salvaged rubbish) would probably have your average MNer clutching at their pearls!

that job sounds bloody brilliant! What a great opportunity for all of you. Sounds like it's all coming together for you and at least if you're HEing both of them then you won't be tied to school drop off/pick up times.