New to home education

[buckbeak]

You may have read my previous thread, regarding my 6 year old getting badly bullied. ( had to delete as per solicitors advice)

So I'm new to homeschooling.

We are doing really well in maths and English. My question is DS is a massive history fan. Do you know of any resources and subjects that will be good to go through?

Also any advice on anything to do with homeschooling. TIA x

"The only way of knowing what sort of LA bod you are likely to get is to ask local home edders with recent experience. And make sure you know that those home edders have roughly similar circumstances to yours."

That sounds useful in theory, but it isn't failsafe. I can recall two separate LA home ed visitors in my area about whom there were fairly serious complaints from some parents. In each case, there were also parents on the local list who chipped in with the information that they themselves had had really positive experiences with those very individuals. People commented that it was hard to believe they were talking about the same people. ("Oh no, he would never have behaved like that. He's lovely and supportive.")

I think a real problem is created by the subjectivity of the judgement of what constitutes a good home education, so that staff do not always treat everyone the same. We all have our own prejudices, including LA staff. A family which is well liked by the HE visitor, and has not observed him to lie, is bound to have a warm feeling about him. A family which finds itself unfairly criticised, or which has been told untruths, is bound to be angry.

I do know of LA staff in my area about whom no one has a bad word to say, to my knowledge anyway. But I have personal experience of one who is almost universally liked, but who has told me a deliberate lie on two separate occasions. (Fortunately no harm was done, as I knew better.) That does make me very cautious of encouraging anyone to rely on recommendations from others.

Ah yes, that's a good point Saracen.

I was trying to think of a situation in which I would say "yes, do meet with the LA bod" but my attempt has failed :D