a lovely lovely piece about a Guardian journalist not sending his reception-aged daughter to school

[onwardandupward]

here

[onwardandupward]

Hi sealiion, this here is the yahoo group you are looking for :-)

And marmaduke - if you are looking for examples of how home educated people spend their days, I'd recommend you look at this which is a home ed uk bliogring, or this which is a UK early years blog ring. word of warning, you are likely to disappear into random click heaven and may not emerge unscathed... you'll find all sorts there, from people who are totally unstructured to people who have a little schoolroom at home and a timetable

[cheekysealion]

if i am honest i dont think i could work from home....

one option may be my mum to do childcare...
and i reduse hours at work after i just increased them when dd started school last year

[cheekysealion]

thanks riven i will have a look

[cheekysealion]

yes...

where do the dc's go when parent works?

thankyou

[cheekysealion]

lovely article

i am very tempted as my dd says she hates school... but as the only earner in the house i feel it would be impossible

[Runnerbean]

LOL at

they need some force and made to do things they don't want which most schools have more resources and force of will to achieve than most normal giving in to the child parents

And how many children learn positively and enthusiastically and accurately something they are forced to?

[Runnerbean]

Riven,

My dd is Lillibel, my other dd is the one reading and doing maths. We filmed a whole heap of stuff but they only used seconds of it, hopefully the rest can be used by EO media, we've filmed an interview for them too.
I'm looking forward to going to HESFES when the girls are a little older.

I thought this Guardian piece was the most positive article about HE I've ever read, so pleased to see it didn't end on a negative.

There's been lots in the media, radio, tv, press recently (surprise, surprise it's September) about HE, why is Paula Rothermel never quoted?
I guess they just don't do enough research.

[Runnerbean]

or this

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7606670.stm

[Runnerbean]

here

[Runnerbean]

"The results show that 64% of the home-educated Reception aged children scored over 75% on their PIPS Baseline Assessments as opposed to 5.1% of children nationally."

Wow even I'm impressed by that!

Did anyone see my dd's on BBC Tuesday night?

[marmadukescarlet]

Thanks Riven. He has a proposed statement, but they have only named a special needs school in the part 4. They know I have employed legal assistance from someone who has a nearly 100% success rate against them in recent years. I got a letter this week suggesting that they may put a maintained mainstream school - although have not named a specific one- so they seem to be backing off quickly to avoid the expense of a tribunal.

He needs positive NT role models, I'm not against SN education - DS went to SN nursery. In fact he could have spent another year there (can go until 5) but the nursery suggested as one of their older most able pupils he would get little benefit from remaining in the mixed age (2.5 -5) class.

He has always done dual placement in MS and got on really well, far better than in SN.

LEA expected him to start full time school in Sept, but I knew he wouldn't be ready and didn't ever put his name down.

The positive part of having independent assessments done as we approach the tribunal is that I have discovered lots of things about DS, I'd always been told he had a language delay - he doesn't, he has a speech disorder caused by the muscle tone problems he has.

[marmadukescarlet]

Thanks for the link.

OK, If I was to consider HE could you guys point me to a thread which gives some information about how each day goes? Obviously not a timetable but what you do and how you get the information etc to do it?

Riven, am very impressed by you HE'd academics!

My DS has SN (not severe, a genetic problem, mild CP etc but is to all intents just a little (25%) delayed coupled with his late August birthday) but the LEA will currently only have him in SN school, not supported in MS.

I want him to be supported in MS but held back a year (as he is currently in the pre reception class of an independent school), we are going to tribunal over this, it is expensive and time consuming and there is no guarantee of sucess.

My other option is to HE but am V scared I will not be organised or intelligent enough to make it work.

[OneLieIn]

Oh, how nice to read it! after 1 week of home ed I must say it is great!

[Fllllight]

Ooh have found it!! here

[Fllllight]

Hmm.

Link please Riven if you do have a nanosecond
otherwise will google it

Belgo - that sounds utterly sensible. It was my thinking entirely, that I was just so goddam bored at school, it really stunted my development in all sorts of ways.

Imagining my boy sat at a table being told to complete some worksheet of times tables and not allowed to stop when he had reached his limit, just fills me with sadness. He needs to be allowed to stop when he can't do it - not forced to plod on when his brain just won;t co operate.

IMO a lot of children are pathologically bored at school.

I don;t agree with you Xenia on this.