home educating

[maggie144]

Hi again

Just thought i would mention, you don't have to have money or books to home educate, both myself and my husband are disabled and on benefits and we get on just fine.

You don't need to stick to a curriculum or teach any of the lessons that are at school

I teach my children cooking, art, we have days out in the country, visit museums, join the library, but most importantly enjoy your kids, teach them about life, about growing up, the stuff that schools don't teach them.

hope this helps.

maggie

[celticmyth]

Hi Maggie,
Just noticed your posting and want to agree with you wholeheartedly,I have just finished home edding my 16 year old(who's just started college)I have a disabled partner,very little money.....but we had a whale of a time,there's a big wide world outside school to learn from
Whoops must go and post an intro now
Celt

[dibnah]

I'm borderline at the moment but good luck to you both

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

How do you manage when it comes to exams and other state decreed tests, my daughter only started nursery last week and already she is picking up some shocking habits and I am seriously considering home schooling, but I wondered about the exam situation as a lot of employeers would look at a cv and expect to see them - poor bugger she is only three and I am mapping her life out already !

www.welshgirlsallotment.blogspot.com

[celticmyth]

My daughter decided to go to college at 16(she started last week) and do her GCSE's,she got in no problem and seems to be way ahead of most of the other kids(but i think a lot of them failed their maths ,english etc at school and are doing re-takes)She decided to catch up on gcse level maths about 6 months before starting college and seemed to pretty much have covered the whole curriculum within that time.We were autonomous home edders,so no"set lessons"............For me it's been about holding onto my belief in H.E. as better for my daughter than school(where she was very badly bullied)
Other home edded kids within our social group,did exams from home,such as O.U.
IMO H.E. makes for confident,sociable kids,without all the nastiness that they can be forced to take on to cope at school.
I'd say to anyone considering it....Go For It

[WitchypooNo2]

We have just officially started home edding our 4 yr old. I say officially as he was supposed to start school this Sept. We love it, we love the freedom, we love all the things we are learning as parents and I love that my 4 yr old is now trying to share what he has learned with his younger brother. Now fairy nuff My 1 yr old couldn;t give a stuff that sharks have cartilage as opposed to bone unless he can bite it but it does make me chuckle!!!!!!

[celticmyth]

Good for you WitchypooNo2

[chadspad]

Is there not a huge process of court approval to go thru to be allowed to home teach? My friend several years back had to fight in court to get the right to teach her 3 at home because the local school was so bad. She did win but it took some pushing!

I love the idea of home teaching but dont u think the kids miss out on socialising skills - I know most of the 'skills' they learn in the playground arent the best - but I have an only child and he finds things like sharing difficult. If he was home with me all the time I think he would be even worse.

[celticmyth]

Is there not a huge process of court approval to go thru to be allowed to home teach? My friend several years back had to fight in court to get the right to teach her 3 at home because the local school was so bad. She did win but it took some pushing!

I love the idea of home teaching but dont u think the kids miss out on socialising skills - I know most of the 'skills' they learn in the playground arent the best - but I have an only child and he finds things like sharing difficult. If he was home with me all the time I think he would be even worse.

Hi,
There's a useful guide to the law here:
http://www.educationotherwise.org.uk/Le ... ng&Wls.htm
Great site for home edders or those considering it.
All you have to do in the UK is de-register your child from school,once you have written a letter informing the school that you are withdrawing your child,they have to (by law)remove your childs name from the register,once done your child cannot be "done" for truanting as they are no longer on a school register
Did your friends children have a "statement of special needs"?as if this is the case i think you do need permission to H.E. Chadspad
My daughter is also an only child,she has had more friends and social outlets since being home edded than when she was in school.

[Shirley]

I do love the idea of home ed... but our local school is a big part of the community - it's only a small school - around 20 children in the whole school... I worry that if I choose to home ed it will alienate me from the rest of the community - I would hate that they might think I thought myself better than them and that my son was too good to mix with the local kids.

I also think that the local schools help parents to get to know other parents too - thus it would help ME to have a social life too.

Most of the people I've met up here have been through Ish or Neeps! or my older son's school.

Just thinking aloud - I've not made up my mind yet.

[multiveg]

I used to say before I had children that I would home educate. However, I live now in a Welsh-speaking area where education can be through the medium of Welsh. I want him to be fully bilingual, and to study subjects through this language. I, however, am only a Welsh learner and I don't feel I can teach him Welsh. I am aware of a number of people who home educate in the area but they have no desire for their children to learn Welsh.

[celticmyth]

Home education has to be something that's right for both you and your kids..........I'm totally for it,if i had any more kids they wouldn't set foot inside a school,but it's not for everyone.There is no better,only what's better for you and yours

[maggie144]

i have to say that both my kids have been through the education system, my daughter was bullied from day one at the time i didn't know about home educating, when i moved counties following the breakdown of my first marriage, and realising that my daughter still had a problem with bullies,i knew i had to take action.

It was my son's headteacher that told me about education otherwise, and we have not looked back they both have a good social life and i have never seen such happy kids, they learn all sorts of skills,but the best thing they have learnt is about life and the world around us, something that they can't learn from any teacher.

My daughter is now looking into going to college and moving on with her life trying to put the bullying that nearly killed her behind her ( she admitted to being suicidal)

sorry for rambling, but as you can probably tell i am very passionate about my children and their education something their natural father seems not to care about at all

maggie

[celticmyth]

have a good social life and i have never seen such happy kids, they learn all sorts of skills,but the best thing they have learnt is about life and the world around us, something that they can't learn from any teacher.

My daughter is now looking into going to college and moving on with her life trying to put the bullying that nearly killed her behind her ( she admitted to being suicidal)
maggie

Hi Maggie i've quoted a couple of points from your post,just wanted to say,i agree 100% with the 1st chunk,.....My daughter was also bullied,and also admitted(after i'd taken her out of school)to being in the bathroom with a razor a couple of times....well you can guess the rest)
I was worried that she would find it hard to cope in college.......I'm glad to say ,she has sailed into it,(she started 2 weeks ago)she is so happy,confident......and by what she tells me coping better with being there than a lot of the kids,who have been,suddenly"let off the leash" so to speak after being cloistered in school for 10 years or so,they don't seem to know how to cope with the freedom or manage their own time.......Also something that teachers cant teach.

As for you being passionate about it....Good on ya Gal

Celt

[Sarahcook]

If I wasn't so needy of the money that I had to teach other peoples children, I'd be at home educating my own son with education otherwise!

It's a tricky one! I need the money from the job to pay for the house and other things, and thus my son will go into the education system (which I don't entirely approve of).

However, I live in hope of winning the lottery, leaving the job and educating him at home. With any luck we'll do our first topic on the perfect sandcastle, and spend many hours on many different beaches in many different countries. (I'm planning on a BIG lottery win)

Sarah