home schooling

odollybird

hi there,
i am seriously considering taking my ds out of his school and home schooling him has anybody had any experiance of this. he has problems at school with the staff, he made a reputation for himself in his first yaer at secondry school and has by far improved from this but they still look at him and deal with him with the past inmind they dont want to let him start afresh , any help or advice would be appriciated (sp)

tia

grey_lady

Lots of people home school, there's been threads about it before, if you search you should find quite a bit of info. Just curious, are you confident in your ability to teach your son to at least the same standard if not better than the school? If so then great, if not have you considered looking at other schools?

patchwork_cat

Would it not be a more usual approach to move schools? Home schooling is certainly not to be taken lightly I for one would only do it when there really was no other suitable alternative. Will you be able to teach him ICT, Maths, English ( sorry, don't want to be mean, but you don't know how to spell appreciated or use a spell checker ) Science, DT, Geography, History, P.E. etc.

slightlyconfused1

A huge part of school, especially High School, is social. It presents all sorts of opportunities that, with the best will in the world, you could not give an individual child.

On a more practical level how would you teach all the different subjects and help him choose his options? I would also look at moving schools. Even if it is a school much further away that you have to transport him to and from it would, in my opinion, be a more viable option.

Best of Luck

righter

except of course,home-schooling,means you can teach totally differently. it is not necessary to teach every subject separately...or indeed at all. We teach things that do not appear on our local school curriculum i.e. latin,philosophy,critical thinking...to name but a few.
i am not an expert in all these areas,but I know where to find good quality teaching materials.

perhaps they were in too much of a hurry to use a spell checker.

fedupnow

I took my son out of school - best thing I ever did. If I'd known how successful it was going to be I wouldn't have sent ANY of my kids to school.

I am not a teacher and am no expert in any of the subjects. Everything can be found online. It all depends how well your child wants to do. It offers him the opportunity to focus on those subjects which matter to him, whatever they may be. For example, we had a lot of fun doing the science papers ... but he never bothered to sit the exam as he knew he wasn't going to need it for what he wanted to do.

Learning at home brings its own rewards. Time management skills, self discipline etc. Don't worry about the social aspect, it was one of my bigger worries but turned out to be no problem at all. He is happy and sociable with a lot of friends.

Ignore all those who haven't been there and done it - let's face it, they don't know. Loads of people tried to tell me I couldn't do it ... or he would end up weird and unable to communicate --- all complete bullocks to be honest.

My son is now in university doing very well. School doesn't work for everybody.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Fang_3

I'm glad you're considering this. Not just for your son, but for the rest of the children negatively affected by his behaviour.

Mupette

I'm sure someone can find the thread, there is a mse'r on here who's grandchild was having an awful time at school, and with lots of advice she did the home schooling for her gc.

good luck with this, I have no experience but have read lots on here about those who have and do, and it is very possible.

Fang really if you ready the op's original post you would of seen this...

he made a reputation for himself in his first yaer at secondry school and has by far improved from this

just made it a bit bigger for you just in case you didn't notice it.

msb5262

Mupette wrote: »

I'm sure someone can find the thread, there is a mse'r on here who's grandchild was having an awful time at school, and with lots of advice she did the home schooling for her gc.

good luck with this, I have no experience but have read lots on here about those who have and do, and it is very possible.

Fang really if you ready the op's original post you would of seen this...

he made a reputation for himself in his first yaer at secondry school and has by far improved from this

just made it a bit bigger for you just in case you didn't notice it.

I'm sorry but the quote you've included is clear evidence that not all parents are equipped to home-educate their children.
Admittedly the poster may have been in a hurry but this isn't someone who would find delivering home education even remotely easy.
MsB

Mupette

the quote wasn't for the op

msb5262

Mupette wrote: »

the quote wasn't for the op

I know - it was FROM the OP but it does make my point pretty clear.