Tutors

[inappropriatelyemployed]

As many may know, I am trying to investigate a package of at home tutoring using tutors I select myself which I hope to see if the LA will fund.

I have only had email responses so far but it's been so encouraging to see how switched on full time tutors are. They seem so prepared to do things differently and creatively and work with what we want. There seems to be a genuine appreciation that the system fails many children.

Wow, I am impressed.

I will be watching this very carefully, seems very tempting ATM. Please keep us updated.

DS has 4 hours of independent specialist dyslexia teaching every week. I go to their centre rather than they come to me. But they are fantastic. Very very switched on, very very passionate. And the only teachers in my DS's entire life who haven't given up on him.

(If I accept the crap LA Statement, this will go to 1 hour LA support every month and all their amazing work will be undone )

who have you been using to find tutors?

Do the LA fund it?

There was a thread on here and people gave me suggestions.

No tutoring started yet but I'm investigating how feasible it is.

Good to hear the search is going well. Hope you can get someone suitable.

Link to the thread here

Home education is a movement that seems to be growing exponentially along with the free school movement. Sadly it seems a LOT of parents/teachers are dissatisfied with the current state offering. It's one of the few areas where SN & non-SN parents seem to find more and more common ground each year. Shame the politicians aren't listening!

I had a meeting with someone from my LA last week (not that kind of meeting though ) and she reported an increase as well in our area. She also anticipates that there will be a further rise in temporary home education when parents find they can't get their children into their first choice of school and elect to EHE till a suitable alternative comes available.

There's got to be something amiss with the system, hasn't there?