Full disclosure that I'm making a podcast about education in Britain today and I'm looking for a few different reasons for why people home ed - but I'm also very personally interested in the topic. I'm a qualified teacher and I currently work in a school, but I'm doing an MA in education and am generally more interested in home ed/autonomous education for my own future children (currently have 1 DSS age 5 who is not in school for his health). So I'd like to ask the people who currently home educate - why? Have your kids ever been to school or were you EHE from day 1? What are your pros and cons of it? And if you wouldn't mind me mentioning your response in my podcast episode when it comes time to record it (fully anonymised of course) I'd be grateful :)
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FourAndTwentyBlackbirdsBakedInAPie · 06/02/2023 21:27
Some of my dc go to school and thrive.
I HE two of my dc (after 7 years of school), one due to a mental health issue that the school were absolutely rubbish at dealing with, and actually made it worse, another for a health reason where their solution was to pull my dc out of class about 20 minutes in and have them sit by themselves with the occasional teacher sticking their head in, their health condition was deemed 'too disruptive' for the rest of the kids (because they allowed the kids to bully my dc which made their condition worse and so the cycle went).
I'm hoping my younger dc go to secondary and are able to stay there because this HE lark is stressful 🤣
tortoisewoman · 06/02/2023 21:29
Wow, that sounds like it was absolutely awful 😱I hope you're able to find something that works for you soon!
FourAndTwentyBlackbirdsBakedInAPie · 06/02/2023 21:27
Some of my dc go to school and thrive.
I HE two of my dc (after 7 years of school), one due to a mental health issue that the school were absolutely rubbish at dealing with, and actually made it worse, another for a health reason where their solution was to pull my dc out of class about 20 minutes in and have them sit by themselves with the occasional teacher sticking their head in, their health condition was deemed 'too disruptive' for the rest of the kids (because they allowed the kids to bully my dc which made their condition worse and so the cycle went).
I'm hoping my younger dc go to secondary and are able to stay there because this HE lark is stressful 🤣
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