Be honest, I want everyone's views......what do you think of home ed???

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I suspect this may get nasty, but please try to keep it nice ladies (and gents) I really like the idea of home ed, I would dearly love to home ed my dc but there are some problems, firstly I work 3 nights a week and my dh works 2 full days,my eldest dd is 5 and she really loves school, but some of things that she says about school unsettle me, I always said that it is their choice if they want to go to school or not, which is why she is there and my ds is in nursery but I wish she'd want to stay home and the longer that she's there, the more I feel that we're wasting time...

I've read a lot of the other threads and see that you can do some home-ed stuff alongside school but I don't think that it's enough for me, I want them to remain interested and not be moved on from one thing too quickly or forced to spend time on things they dislike.

We're already a close family because of mine and dh's shifts there is nearly always someone in the house and we get to spend a lot of time with the kids. I suppose I'd just like it to be more of the same.

My main concerns are that the dc would resent us for it in the future (although I would not take a happy child out of school) I also worry about the effect of home ed-ing the children would have on future employers and university places, I do worry about the socialisation aspect although the kids are in a few groups and are very social, they interact well with adults as well as other children, I'm concerned about how much time I'd have to work with them with working full time myself (no opportunity to cut hours)

I'm going round in circles at the min, I think my ds would be more open to the idea and I'm considering not sending dd2 to nursery at all.

The other biggie is that the school they attend is out of area and it's a really good one, they wouldn't get back in there if we deregistered, I've considered flexi-schooling but I feel that would bring more problems than solutions....

OK, Open fire!!!

and at ks4 there are different exam boards that vary somewhat in their content. And different times of exams to take into account that we don't teach the same thing at the same time as all other schools . Same is true at ks5 (so you can take the foundation part of AS biology at (IIRC) 3 separate times in the year)

as I've said the NC is a constraint that I dislike. But it isn't as prescriptive are people are saying here. particularly at ks1 and 2

and the new KS3 curriculum (starting in sept) is supposed to be less content driven with more space for teacher initaitive. It is also far more pro cross curricular in its outlook. I'll be interested to see how true that is!

Yes. Tudors are covered in the same term -certainly in this area.

Hampton Court was rushed with Yr3s from local schools last term.

SV, you should be with us. Ds has just done Vikings, and which bits of the county the founded.

he tells me about it

At length!

DS1 has done some Viking stuff recently (yr 5)

right, off to bed!

Night all

perhaps we might come and move next door to you MB then you can deal with DD1s issues with GCSE Science, and I can discuss Vikings with your DS (I grew up near where Indulf fought a battle with Eric of the Bloody Axe (not that they told us about that at school, I had to find that out myself the other week ).

I didn't think that all schools did exactly the same stuff, week by week.

But I really do think that the reason that the NC exists is for control NOT to provide equal opportunities for all kids.

(You don't have to follow the NC in private schools).

Yes, TM. NC is designed to deliver info to large groups of children.....and also to make sure there are enough 6 year olds able to wield a Victorian bed-warming pan if the worst happens.

Xenia. NC not compulsory for HE, either.

have absoluteley no experience of Home-Ed but my gut feeling is you are disadvantaging your child for no particular valid reason.other than to indulge your own whim preference. i acknowledge state schools have their well documented difficulties

but

fast forward to them as an adolescent who has no peer contact,no daily contact with other children.

No imteraction with teachers

No experience of problem solving/experiential learning in groups

Applying for employment/university when your child has no formal schooling experience.

No external person to vouch for character development/skills/learning style apart from mummy

All of the 'Alternative' schools I have looked at are private (of course).

I am just wondering if I could open an 'informal' school here and be creative with the NC and wangle Govt funding...

We do need another primary school.

Not everyone has a place this year apparently.

Why would a HE adolescent have no peer contact? Or contact with other children?

HE doesn't mean that a child is kept at home all the time.

"fast forward to them as an adolescent who has no peer contact,no daily contact with other children.

No imteraction with teachers

No experience of problem solving/experiential learning in groups

Applying for employment/university when your child has no formal schooling experience.

No external person to vouch for character development/skills/learning style apart from mummy"

Read the thread before posting such ridiculous comments !!

Do you have much experience with HE ?

HE does not offer peer learning group, or experiential learning as the venue is home with mummy. social contacts likely to be acquaintances only but not structured supported peer directed learning. i would query the ability to develop social skilss and robust attitudes, because school does offer a range of experiences albeit ranging from good/bad/neutral/awful but these experience shape us

the HE child is disengaged from main stream education, by the mother's choice

TM. I found a site recently about small schools. Hang on, I'll see if I can find it.....

"at home with mummy".....

SM. I suggest you read some HE threads to find out how it works.

scottishmummy if you "have absolutely no experience of Home-Ed"...so how have you come to your conclusions then? Guesswork?

small schools

hang about the op stated "Be honest, I want everyone's views-what do you think of home ed". oh i see is this thread one of those sycophantic we are all so right and any divergent view is wrong?

Gosh-you have all moved this thread forward so fast!

I suspect that some folks have not had the chance to read through the thread and are coming in with their own thoughts on home ed-which are exactly what I thought before I was thrown into this world!

None of you have mentioned anything that I don't think I could get covered if my children wanted it.
There have been and are subjects that our children have been interested in that we know little about-and so we have helped them find other people to help them understand their subjects.
They can do GCSE/A levels if they want to-our son did -our daughters have chosen the OU route.
The OU route is good for us as some of their courses are good basics and are not specialising too early.

And answering Scottishmummy in particular (not picking on you, just that you are the last poster right now and there are too many others to comment on;

"fast forward to them as an adolescent who has no peer contact,no daily contact with other children."

My children are adolescents and young adults. They have been to school and been home educated.
They have much more contact with their peers and for longer periods of time as they go and stay with their friends for days on end, or they come here.
Our children have a social life that is the envy of their schooled peers and cousins, we spend long weeks through the year at camps and gatherings.
Our children say they much prefer their social life now than the one they had at school

"No imteraction with teachers" They have teachers-just not in school where they have no choice but to listen.
Our children have half a dozen teachers involved in their lives right now.

"No experience of problem solving/experiential learning in groups"
We cover all of that easily within the home ed groups-and there are so many of them happening round here I sometimes say that socialisation is a problem-there is too much of it!

"Applying for employment/university when your child has no formal schooling experience."
No problems for my children who are young adults so far!
Nor for any of the hundreds of other home educated young people that we know either.

"No external person to vouch for character development/skills/learning style apart from mummy "
My daughter has just started to work for a national known organisation.
She had damn good references from
The Mobile Internet providers that she worked for, the retails outlet she has worked for, the family that she spent two long summers sailing around the country with, helping to crew the boat and look after their children and the University lecturer that she assisted, in running workshops for women who are victims of domestic violence.

According to her new employers this made her CV stand out from the crowd!

My other two children's CV will look different-just as interesting but different.

I think most people (and I am including me before I found out more) cannot imagine there is a different valid way of educating children-but there is and it is very effective.

As i said before I am passionate about making sure accurate information about home education is out there.
then everyone can make informed choices.

Each to his own.

Going to bed now and giving in to this virus for a while!

Don't talk too much-I can't keep up!

Yes but surely you can see that the OP might want to make a decision based on facts rather than myths?

i have not came here on a pretense, but did respond to OP request. Oh i see is it a prerequisite that only HE devotees can participate in this thread?

incidentally out of interest, how do HE pupils rate of entry into HE/Uni compare with school educated children?

"have absoluteley no experience of Home-Ed"

followed by

"HE does not offer peer learning group, or experiential learning as the venue is home with mummy. social contacts likely to be acquaintances only but not structured supported peer directed learning. i would query the ability to develop social skilss and robust attitudes, because school does offer a range of experiences albeit ranging from good/bad/neutral/awful but these experience shape us

the HE child is disengaged from main stream education, by the mother's choice"

ROFL!

An informed view would be a start. How can you make such sweeping statements when you have, by your own admission - no experience of HE?

There are lots of opposing views on this thread but most posters have actually made an attempt to understand what HE is about.