Contemplating home school

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Hello all as the title says I am considering home schooling my children and wanted to know the best way around it.. now my views are my own personal views and I am allowed to feel the way I do before I get someone calling me a xyz.. I am actually getting sick to the back teeth of my kids currently being taught certain sensitive topics to the point of being brain washed by certain teachers into their own personal views especially if the child does not agree with them which personally I think is disgusting. I would rather my children be taught stuff that they will need when they're older for example how to cook and money management not how to feel about someone else's gender etc which is a personal preference to the individual not a collective decision made by 13 year old children... I have seen so much online of children secretly recording their lessons and hearing the teachers basically bully them into accepting what the teacher is saying which is rather scary.. these children had the right to their own opinions but because it wasn't the same as the teachers they were basically called rude etc and that they will going to be reported,, I am no way against gays.. trans etc but I am against the way the way this is being forced on young children that personally are not mature enough to handle this sensitive subject if they could then lower the voting age to 10 as that's how young these children are being taught this... I feel that's something I personally would like to explain to my very young children even sex education has become a disgrace teaching extremely young primary school children things they really do not need to no about until they're at least the second half of secondary school.. I do not what my kids sheltered at all but I do not want them brain washed either. We as parents cannot even remove our own children from these types of subjects as they're part of the curriculum wtf teaching my children that it's ok if they want to identify as for example a teapot is not going to really help them in the real world.. sorry for the little rant but held it in far too long now and have decided if my children want a shot at a good education and being able to do the careers they want I will have to do it myself.. as I said some will not accept my views on it which is fine but that's how I personally feel my children go to school to learn and I would rather them be taught how to survive on £30 until payday. Thank you all.

Let's hope none of them want a career that involves using punctuation then

OK. Teach them yourself. That's why home Ed is an option....

@SerfnTerf Home schooling with the aid of private tutors would of course be involved with their education.

@SweepTheHalls do i just need to speak to the local authority regarding this? We shall be doing it with the aid of a private tutor a few times a week.

No. You just inform the school you will be home ed. You then have the right to include or exclude anything you want.

I don’t blame you.
Going by the FB HE groups I’m a part of the fastest growing group of people turning to HE are ex teachers. This speaks volumes.

If I had the means to pay for tutors I would take ds out of school tomorrow.

I HE my older ds as he couldn’t cope with school.

I would find local HE groups on fb, they’re usually a mine of information.

You need to write to the school using wording that I can’t remember - I’ll see if I can find it.

You will probably get a phone call from someone (local elective home education department) about how you intend to educate your children, but you can turn this down I believe.

Don’t listen to posters talking about grammar and spelling, most teens I know coming out of school now have a very loose grasp of grammar and spelling. There seems to be quite a low bar set.

This is an excellent website, and has a template of the letter you need to send school.

Unfortunately, you really don't sound very knowledgeable about how schools actually operate or on what children are being taught. It sounds like you have heard things, probably on social media, that are completely out of the ordinary.

I am a primary teacher myself with three children who attend lovely schools and have never seen or heard anything like what you have described. Teachers are generally lovely, caring people who want the best for the dc we teach and not the evil brainwashers / bullies you are painting us as!

You call your child's/children's school and deregister them.
You make sure you or tutor are giving out set work for their key stage (KS 1,2,3,4) your local LEA will do the occasional visit 3 monthly then 6 monthly if they're satisfied the work is within the child's capabilities.

Hi OP, there are certainly other parents who home educate because they don't agree with the school curriculum, so you wouldn't be alone there. For my kids, one of the benefits of home ed has certainly been a better exposure to life skills and the opportunity to acquire experience which will help them in work.

If you decide to home educate, you may feel that your kids would benefit from joining in local home ed groups, which can include academic learning such as museum workshops as well as opportunities to socialise. Be aware that people home educate for a wide variety of reasons and have very differing views, so you'll need to be sensitive to that if you want to avoid upsetting other families.

In particular, some parents will have removed their transgender children from school because they feel their children are not well supported there. If the child has suffered bullying and has poor mental health, a frank expression of your views won't be well received.

It makes me laugh when people who don't home educate say that we are in a bubble with others who are like us. If anything, I think our community is more diverse than others! That's a challenge, but it's also good for our kids to see how we can come together with people whose opinions are different from ours.

You're right about deregistration.

Home educated children do not have to do set work for their key stage. They do not have to do any formal academic "work" at all. Some families like mine do informal learning instead, which is widely accepted as an effective educational method. My eldest is now at university, while the younger one is still working on life skills and improving her basic academic skills - but not via school-style assignments. We don't see learning as work.

Even those families who do choose to follow a curriculum do not have to stick to key stages. One of the benefits of home education is that it can be tailored to the individual child's aptitude. If your nine-year-old has the capacity for KS3 maths but is still in the early stages of learning to read, you accommodate their needs rather than forcing them to learn what an average nine year old would be made to do at school.

There is no legal requirement to have Local Authority staff visit the family. Some people find it intrusive and unhelpful, as staff have no mandatory training in home education and often think it ought to look like school. Three monthly or even six monthly contact would only be appropriate if the LA had serious misgivings about the child's education. Annual contact is more than enough, and is what the Dept for Education recommends in its guidance to LAs. Unfortunately, it's a postcode lottery as to whether LAs provide accurate information to parents about the legal situation. In some cases they deliberately misrepresent the law, and in other cases they're simply not competent. Elective home education can be something of a "pass the parcel" job in LAs, who bring in staff from other departments who have no experience and receive no proper training. So I'm not surprised if your LA has told you they have to do frequent visits.

National home education forums are a good source of information for parents who want to avoid being led up the garden path by their LA. LAs tend to back down when the law is quoted to them.