Home Education

[nikky0907]

I honestly never thought about it. I mean, I am single and will be working so there's no way I could work it out time-wise.
Lola will be attending a private school, close to our house and they have an excellent curriculum.

I have cousins in Croatia and they actually have 17 MANDATORY subjects in high school!!!!

 

[masi]

If they never go to school they are off radar, so to speak, and you won't get bother by the ed department, but taking a kid out of school once they are in it.....now thats another story!

I just wanted to say that this is probably a good thing (to be 'bothered' by the education department), kids get taken out of school for more sinister reasons than to be home schooled and the education department need to follow it up just in case. It worries me quite a lot that kids might be off the radar if they're home schooled from the start.

But the vast majority of reports to child protection services come from within the community, not from schools and the education department. Plus home educated children are not 'off the radar' they are registered with doctors, HVs, dentists, brownies etc.

The education departments often don't like home education as you cannot show a set curriculum and the children sitting down at set times to do set lessons. Instead it's a much more fluid experience. Education departments can be very awkward and put a lot of obstacles in your way, which is why the home education community fights so hard to not have to be 'registered' with the education depts.

The fact of the matter is that if you are an abusive of neglectful parent it's a lot easier to send your child to school than to have them underfoot all day every day.

Thats what i meant. Not like an invisible child not registered anywhere. I fully support home ed. I think it's fantastic, and the home educated children i know are mature, and very well socialised.

 

[Farie]

I'd love to home school my kids (when I actually manage to conceive that is) ... we will be living in NZ by then and we will see what our local schools are like before making any decisions.
I had an awful time at school and would do anything to avoid my kids having an experiance like mine. My mum took me out at 14 and home schooled me .. I went back for gcse's and a'levels (I got 12 of the former and 4 of the latter) and went on to Uni after ... so home schooling certainly didn't hurt me!

I actually like the idea of co-operate schooling, where a couple of families get together to share the teaching, possibly use a tutor (cutting the cost as its shared between families) and where I grew up we also had an au pair who taught the language .. but in a useful conversational manner.

Heyho ... we'll see when the time comes I guess

...........although DF says my maths is SO bad I'm never allowed to teach our kids not my fault he's a genius

 

[alio]

Well I won't pretend to know anything about it but the schools are so good where I live I consider it invaluable he goes. Not sure how I'd feel if I lived somewhere where the schools didn't have such a good reputation. All things for all kinds. x