While working?

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This is probably a stupid question but please humour me
Do any of you WOH and home educate your children?
I have some unexpected but serious reservations about my DC's new school and am wondering if it's at all feasible for me to HE when I work part time
Thank you for reading x

Nope.

Many of us tried it in lockdown one ... it didn't go well.

Better to work on moving schools asap.

Mmm
Lockdown was hard
Do you home Ed?

l would ask this question on one of the HS websites as HS during covid resembles nothing close to regular HS, and thats exactly why for many it didn't work.

Oh thank you. I thought I had. Must have used wrong thread

Yes, many people do it, though it can be challenging. A large proportion of home educators I know do not have a parent at home full-time.

Whether you can manage it depends on lots of things. How old are your kids? Do you have a partner or other family support? What sort of working hours and flexibility do you have with your work? Can you afford a childminder, or is your income low enough that you can get government support with childcare costs?

This board is absolutely fine for asking questions like yours, so long as you are aware that there will be people wandering through who have no experience of home education and think they know what it would be like based on their lockdown experiences, or just letting their imagination run wild! (If you mention home ed to acquaintances IRL you will also get all sorts of odd opinions.) But there are plenty of home educators here who can help.

If you find you aren't getting enough responses here, Facebook is the place to go. For example, "Home Education UK" national group with 43,000 people on it. In theory it is restricted to people who are already home educating or seriously considering it, so you may get a larger proportion of useful answers there than here.

Thank you Saracen

Depends on how old and how motivated the child is. There are online schools available everywhere ( some timetabled and some self paced ), home Ed groups that share tasks or part time tutor groups in some areas. Facebook groups will provide a wealth of information to help you decide. If you can see an approach that might work, you can take dive a bit deeper into which providers would be best for your child.

The question of how "motivated" the child is will only be relevant if you are doing adult-directed learning and you wonder whether the child will go along with that. Unless their basic needs are unmet, children are always motivated to learn - they are hardwired to learn. Of course, they may not be motivated to learn what someone else thinks they should be learning. If their interests don't coincide with what you are trying to get them to do, you'd need to rely on their compliance.

An alternative approach is to let children lead their own learning, so you don't have to hope they will be interested in what you want them to learn or willing to comply despite being disengaged. This approach (called "autonomous education" here or "unschooling" in the US) is how both of my kids learned. They are now 22 and 16, and it has served them well.

If you are hoping to feed children back into the school system in the near future then that approach might not appeal, but if you are planning to take a few years or more out of school then there is less pressure to mirror what is being done at school, and the question of compliance is not so relevant.

Thank you so much