What to do

[Rowie00]

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My DC unfortunately have to attend a 'needs improving' school, there are currently no spaces locally at other schools. Due to work times I can not get them to another school and get back in time, the nature of my job I can not change start and finish times, there is no public transport where I live. The school failed on discipline of reoccurring bad behaviours and communication. The reoccurring behaviour, basically bullying, involves my DC being on the receiving end of it, racially. Numerous complaints have gone in and school are being lax in dealing with it. I have taken the complaint further. There was also a safeguarding issue

My question is, AIBU in wanting to homeschool, and how would I do this working. Is there such a thing as homeschool groups? I have no idea where to begin. TIA

I don’t see how you can homeschool while working. You’d need to be there to teach and supervise. You can’t leave a child alone while you’re at work?

You'd need to give up your job. You can't be at work and homeschooling simultaneously.

I realise I cant leave child alone, I was wondering if there is such a thing as a homeschooling group, and if so how would I find one?

Homeschooling groups involve attending with your child. Do you have access to Google?

There are some home ed co-op type things around us, home ed child minders, drop off forest schools etc. The forest schools and co-ops are never 9-3 five days a week. I know people who do one day facilitated drop off at co-op for about £25 per child, a day of forest school for similar price with the same group of people, and one day family day at the co-op where the parent stays as well. You would probably have trouble finding a child minder with space for full time five days a week (but you can home ed around the edges of that. It's still you responsible for providing the education).

Hope that helps...

yes have access to Google

Home school groups mostly involve attending with your child. If you drop your child off surely that isn’t home schooling, it’s just a regular school?

So if you Google home school or home education and your town or area then you should find some options. There are also fb groups

How old is your child?
You can certainly homeschool with untraditional hours, I do know homeschool parents that work and juggle childcare/teaching. Homeschooling does take dedicated time though.

It would be very unwise to leave a child to learn on their own. There may be some sort of co-op group in your area but usually the parents are required to be there or donate time/skills in other ways (the cooperative part in co-op). A lot of groups are on Facebook. I do think that your odds of finding a drop off group or village school for more than 1 or 2 days a week is very slim.

There may be online schools you can enroll your child in, again it would be unwise to expect that they could do this independently. The parent would still play a big role in making sure the child is understanding and completing the work.

Yanbu to want to homeschool, and I'm sorry for the rough time your child has had. Wanting to homeschool means finding solutions that allow you to make the necessary time commitments - you can be creative with this, but it is necessary. Depending on the legalities of your area and your shifts, you could hire a nanny and private tutors, you could swap childcare days with another homeschooling family, you could bring your child to work (obviously only some places would allow this). These ideas may be totally unworkable for you, the point is that if homeschool is something you really want to do - not just something chosen out of fear - then you can think outside the box to find solutions.

Thank you I'll have a look

Sorry forgot about age DC is 9 so yr5

You are not at all unreasonable to want to home educate and you do not have to follow school hours/terms.
However working full time and home educating is not something I would recommend lightly as it does take time.
Home ed groups are rarely drop off, parents are expected to stay.
You can find childminders who take home educated children however they are child care you will be responsible for the education side and need to weigh up that your children may be spending a lot of their week with toddlers. Worth asking around to see if there are any local home educators who childmind as they may have older children and can take your children to home ed activities. Another option is to employ a nanny, they won't take on the education but could do the social and group activities during the week. I do know people who have employed ex teaching assistants to provide child care and educational activities.

Thank you everyone. Definitely given me food for thought. I've found some FB groups based locally and am waiting for approval.
I work part time but tend to take extra hours often working nearly full time.
Like I say lots to think about.

Also, be really careful that you don't become the person who informally uses home ed groups as cheap child care. I used to move in circles where there were one or two people who somehow always twisted someone's arm "ooh, could you take Jimmy along with you?" or "Ooh, could you also keep Jimmy with you for a couple of hours after group while I work?" and every one of us knew that we were all being expected to be informal unpaid childcare for Jimmy during the home ed group. My goodness, the resentment... Jimmy's Mum was not popular!

Valid point, can see how it would look.

I hope you find some good info to think about, and a good solution for your family.

A couple of parents in our area use a full time primary teacher or a full time secondary tutor to do school at home but I'm guessing this is incredibly expensive. I found it hard to work and HE but I was using family for childcare as we couldn't find a HE childminder close enough. As a first step you could join local HE Facebook groups and see if there are any HE childminders, or anyone looking for reciprocal childcare.

To homeschool someone needs to be at home to take care of them. Homeschool groups are attended to supplement learning and socialisation. There's strict laws on how many hours a week they can run otherwise it's classified as a private school. I take it private school isn't an option? Or moving?