I thought i should introduce myself properly now i am HE my dd1. I was forced to HE as dd1 who is 14 school yr9 was having huge problems with bullies at school and had been for 6 yrs, this was physical as well as verbal abuse. All schools have bullying and dd1 has learning difficulties A.D.D with a big problem with concentration and short term memory loss!!! She was always in the bottom sets at school with horrible girls that were in the bottom set because they just didn't want to learn. My dd1 on the other hand does want to learn, I pulled her out of school in july and have to say its the best decision we have ever made. As a person she has changed dramatically, she used to be so moody and the arguments we used to have were awful! She was so unhappy at school because of the bullying and she used to just say we didn't care. It has been a huge learning curve for us, we never realised how far behind in maths she really was she at school, year 5 level so its really good that she's now getting one to one teaching with me.
My ds is fine at school, he's 11 and in yr7 just started secondary school, he's the opposite though, a child genius so I don't have to worry about him. My dd2 is only 3 and so far seems to be happy enough at playschool. I keep having panic attacks about the amount of work that we should be doing, and I find things like music and D.T really boring, I'm thinking of scrapping the subjects we are both not interested in. We do about 4 hours of work a day, is this normal? enough? too much? Did anyone else pull their children out of school because of bullying? Any advice would be appreciated thanks.