A school free week.

[Ineedalife]

As most of you know Dd3 has been off school this week with Chicken pox.

I have just realised that we have only had one or two meltdowns, hardly any anger and a generally more relaxed girl over the last couple of days.[ she was pretty grumpy while she was unwell]

She hasn't once mentioned the 2 "best friends" and the only time she has mentioned school was to stress about how much homework would have been put in her tray while she was off.[I have told her to bring it home so I can recycle it].

Am looking for ward to half term and we won't need 3 days to adjust to being at home.

I wonder why I send her to school, does anyone else feel like this?

totally ,,, what a terrible situation were put in by these people our DC are picked and poked, were scrutinised, misjudjed, prejudjed,belittled,were used as scapegoats made into statistics , they generalise our DC and try as hard as poss to put our little square pegs bless em into round holes and they just dont bloody fit its fantastic and no surprise ascour DC's often hate adults/(teachers and TA's, &the profeshionals) they lack trust in their peers often and have confidence issues low self exteme ect ect so for our little ones ENJOY your week off and mums breath a sigh of relief of no fighting the system ...just for one week at least have a good half term break everyone x

Absolutely. I know it's best for DS2 to go to school, and his school is wonderful with him. But he is so tired and worn out at the end of the day, as well as the twice a day hassle of school run for us to deal with - I'm thrilled to have a week off.

Here here betty... I know exactly what you are saying.

Enjoy your week betty and triggles and families.

I home educate one of my sons and I wonder why I bothered for so many years with school. So yes, I do feel like that. It's half term here as my other son finished today :)

Im with you on this one, my boys r so much calmer not being at school, wish i could home school them, enjoy your week :)

The more I get let down by schools the closer I get to home educating. DH wouldn't like it but he may have to lump it soon.

You know ds has been off poorly for a couple of days and there have not been as many "confrontations".

I wonder?

I can't afford to home ed as I'm a lone parent with a mortgage, but it's a key reason why I'm looking at getting out of London. I've got a gut feeling that I may HAVE to home ed in order to avoid a PRU or summat similarly awful if this current pattern of a new school every year continues. If I can shrink the mortgage to something reasonable it at least becomes an option - there must be some sort of part-time income I can obtain working from home.

Last summer holidays was Bliss! Despite the usual work pressures I got to really enjoy just being a Mum and spending time with my child. The crazy thing was DS's reading also came on in leaps and bounds but he's since lost all the progress he made.

It's one of the reasons I refuse to be rushed into selecting a new school placement for him. If it isn't right I'm making like a donkey this time and plonking my but on the ground to sit it out.

does your ds have LD or asd or adhd ive seen you on here before but ive a memory like a sieve me lol