I am doing a short presentation on Home Ed - what MUST I include ?

[TheodoresMummy]

Am a regular poster, BTW...

So for part of my Access course I have to do a presentation of 10 to 20 minutes on ANYTHING !!

I think HE would be a bit different and I know quite a bit about it (although DS will be starting Reception part-time in Sept).

It just needs to be informative, not necessarily persuasive.

So, any musts ?

Must

Legal position in uk.

Nice

Detoxing process.

Autonomous approach vs structured.

Blogs were very helpful for me when I started.

Realising that I had already done a lot of HE at weekends, holidays, and of course when they were 0-5 age.

For me it has been a change in attitude, for ds2 it has been a ceasing of being pressured, he just immerses himself in what he's interested in until his focus changes to a new topic. He knows how to do it. I'm learning how to let it happen.

Thanks Milou2 !!

I am def going to start by quoting the education act and pointing out that it's the parents' responsibility to educate their children/find somewhere that their children can receive an education. Everyone that I have ever told this to has been stunned and believed that you had to send your kids to school, or prove that there was a very very very good reason not to.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Where can I find blogs ?

A Month in the life of...... blog of families home educating children with SEN
Sometimes it's peaceful
Greenhouse by the Sea
The Portico
Six Home ed in Kent
Not Sheep
Aspie Home Education
Home educating a Patch of Puddles
The Wobbly's Return
and Dare to Know
Will that do for now?

You should probably include an answer for the question you are likely to get asked dozens of times -

"but what about socialisation?"

What you have so far sounds great.
As the questions they have will always be the same old ones, I would include

the fact that LAs may make informal enquiries if they have reason to believe an education is not taking place.
They don't have to.
There is no duty to visit/monitor.
We don't have to have home visits.

The choice of the way in which information is supplied to the LA is always the parents.

The LA don't have to see the children
Home education is not a welfare issue.

The LA don't have the right to demand to see examples of work.

We don't have to follow the NC/take SATs/GCSEs but can do if we want to.

You don't have to do 11 years of schooling to do GCSEs.

You don't have to have GCSEs to do A levels.

You don't have to have A levels to get to University.

Home Educated children are very well socialised.
There is a whole supportive community out there, that most people don't know about.
best description I have seen, is it is like Alice going through the looking glass and finding a whole world she knew nothing about.

There are home education meetings held all over the country, for social gatherings, workshops and visits. Camps and gatherings are held all over the country through the summer months.

Home educated young people, go to college, get jobs, go to University.

I'd also have a hand out ready with the email addy of HE-UK and the email address and phone helpline of EO in case someone asks for them for more information.

Thanks guys, this is all great.

I am so nervous because giving a presentation is not something I will find easy, but here goes anyway...

Will update when I have something down on paper powerpoint.

I am seriously into HE and autonomous education even within more 'alternative' schools. I hope I don't bore people...

Bet you won't bore them

I can talk about HE til the cows come home.
(as I am sure you have all guessed by now!)
But in 20 mins you will only be skimming the surface and will just about have time to cover thee points that they will all be wondering about.

lets face it, society has been so well trained to go along with conventional schooling, that the idea that parents can go it alone, without being tested/monitored/needing permission will be shocking!

Good luck!

Cheers julie

And all...

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how shit would that be?

" my prsntashion abowt ome edumication will begin wiv me tellink yous lot abowt what i think is important"

I think the point about child led learning is a good one to make... (i was home ed from 11 to 15 very much left to learn what interested me )

think of the negatives too though - less social integration - even though home ed children do seem well adjusted - it's not necessarily in line with peers at school.

Those links are really interesting Julie - thanks!