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[Taz2]

I noticed home schooling mentioned on another thread and we have just had three home-schooled pupils enrolled in our school. Last year we lost two pupils to home schooling and it's interesting that we have seen both sides of the "to home school or not" debate.

There is info here about how the system works http://www.home-education.org.uk/faq-carers.htm  It is always good to have choice I reckon.

Taz x

[honeybun]

It is good to have choices but it's really not something I would have done. I feel that the school experience is invaluable. Children learn from each other. They learn how to work as part of a group and how to relate to each other and the world outside of home
 No amount of trips and museums can replace that.

We were very lucky with the schools my kids went to. We had moved to this town with that in mind as the secondary school is among the top performing schools in Scotland.

Something would have had to be drastically wrong for me to home school.

Each one to their own though.

Honeyb
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[Taz2]

Yes it's definitely an individual decision. I think that if you home school for primary and then don't for secondary it can be a great shock going from home to, in some cases, over 1000 pupils. Of course it also depends on the parenting. If you do it well and have a good social life making sure the children mix with a variety of children and give them different educational experiences then it can work well. The children we have now absolutely adore playtime and the P.E. sessions and are doing well rehearsing for the school play.

I found the school experience invaluable for my three in an overall way although maybe with one to one home schooling they would have done better academically. They all passed their GCSE's though and the one who wanted to went on to Uni and the other two never wanted to go down that route anyway but are doing ok in their own particular ways. I am not sure that I would have had the patience to see them through the education aspect - I get far too easily persuaded to go off to the coast for the day!

Taz x

[Rowan]

My sisters Partner's kids are Home Schooled.

From what I know and been told I am not sure it has done them any favours, The separated parents are onetime hippies and doing it on benefits from what I can see.

The idea originated in America where when It is done properly can produce well adjusted children, I imagine for the parent responsible  for the schooling, it is hard and dedicated work.

[honeybun]

I think Evanstar is a home schooler.

Perhaps she will give us her input.

I had friends that went to private schools. It took the so long to fit into the rough and tumble of us ordinary people. They were privileged but I felt sorry for them.
My nephew has spoken of home schooling his little girl. They are latter day hippies to.
Don't think it will happen though. It takes far more comitment than they are able to give.

Honeyb
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[Pennyfarthing]

I know a lad of 16 who was home schooled and he is always with his mum. He is very introverted and shy. I have never seen him out without one of his parents.  They lost their first child from cot death and couldn't bear to have him away from them for a minute.  I don't think being home schooled has been good for him but its their choice.

Another friend has five kids and they were all home schooled. They are very outgoing and confident. The youngest one wanted to go to school when he was about 9.  They allowed him to and the mum was thrilled when the dragon teacher who every mother disliked described this child as "an absolutely delightful child who is an asset to my class".

[Taz2]

I think that's probably the difference Penny. He was one of five children so had others to learn to get on with and to go through the rough and tumble of childhood. The one who was an only child only had adult company and might have found it difficult once exposed to the knocks of life with other children around

Taz x

[honeybun]

I struggled so hard to settle my son in school. Every morning for over a year they had to peel him off my legs, so much so I had to take him in a different entrance than the rest of the kids. He hated it and I blamed myself. As it turns out he is dyslexic and I suspect dispraxic. I would never had spotted that if I was home schooling. It took a very good teacher with experience to spot the problems.
She changed our lives with him and to this day remains a good friend.

How can a parent spot and address that kind of problem.

Honeyb
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[CLKD]

or accept that there *is* a problem?

I HATED School ........ I would play truant.  Until Mum was ready for me one morning, with hat and coat on, she marched me round to the Senior School where Dad had the car, he was a teacher there.  The humiliation of walking through that Play ground with all the Big Girls watching  has remained!!!! He drove me to the Primary saying 'don't you want to go to school again?' but no one asked me why.  I was shy.  Mum never let me socialise, so parties at children's homes were horrendous.  That was the beginning of my anxiety surges.   

I don't think parents had a  choice 'in my day'?