Social services onto me about not having child in nursery! Advice needed

coolcait

daisiegg wrote: »

Rhetorical questions still need question marks.

Snap!

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(Thanks, MSE 'minimum characters' limit!)

trevorsminted

My child is "advanced for his/her age" he/she is reading books a 8 year old would read and they are only 2?!? they are so advanced!
The amount of times i hear this in a meeting is unbelievable but we are to go with the parents belief that their child is the best in the class, by far beyond their years, held back etc etc,!!!!

Person_one

trevorsminted wrote: »

My child is "advanced for his/her age" he/she is reading books a 8 year old would read and they are only 2?!? they are so advanced!
The amount of times i hear this in a meeting is unbelievable but we are to go with the parents belief that their child is the best in the class, by far beyond their years, held back etc etc,!!!!

Nobody has average children, its astounding that so many of them exist.

trevorsminted

I am always amazed at the amount of kids that assume their child is advanced, beyond years of their peers when in reality they can read a bit better than another child in class, but we have been taught to treat the over zealous parents with respect, of course their child is so much better than the one before, parents love to think their child is the 'more advanced in the class' in the best reading group in class when in reality they are mediocre as the majority of their class, sorry but its a fact my child is the most beautiful in the world!

trevorsminted

Sorry by kids i meant parents!!!

bestpud

trevorsminted wrote: »

Wonder how it looks on a CV

EDUCATION
Muvver taught me at home at the kitchen table with her pj's on!

Advantages you wouldnt need to do your hair in the morning and could drink copious amounts of wine as no school run get up at 11am slap a poundland maths book in front of kids, neighbours on in 42inch plasma on wall and some bowls with a spoon of pasta for lunch, what an achievement who needs schools :T

Such astounding ignorance!

You have absolutely no idea about home-ed, do you?

bestpud

trevorsminted wrote: »

I appreciate a parent/guardian could educate the child/children at home but its the interaction with other children the learning to share things, eat in the dining room with other children, wait your turn, play kids games with kids (not sisters and brothers), do nativity plays, play tig and tag in the playgroup, etc etc.

... and a qualified teacher there was no comparison, the discipline from a "qualified teacher" was what i needed.

All of those things take place within the home-ed community.

The only difference is they play games in the grounds of community hall, there is a wider age group and the children tend to get on better.

Some areas have a bigger home-ed community than others but most home-ed children have access to a wide range of one off and regular groups.

You'd be surprised!

As for the last part of your post - are we talking about you or home-ed in general?

johnnyl

jayII wrote: »

What qualifies you (I don't mean academic qualifications) to judge and generalise about people's life skills?

Some people have fabulous life and people skills at 18, let alone 22. Other perfectly able but unmotivated 50 year olds have very poor life skills.

I'd say that a good proportion of the people who get through teacher training are at least well-motivated and interested in learning, which bodes fairly well for their ability to make use of opportunities to develop their personal life skills.

I know which of the above I'd rather have teaching my children.

again, the real point that was made has floated effortlessly over your head. Lets try again.

If it is ok to create the silly and generalised impression of "muvver in her PJ's" just to ridicule home ed then it is equally valid to create the impression of a teacher as a "straight out of college with no life experiences" as an example of a weakness of the established system.

If you can not understand that point, then I actually feel sorry for you. :rotfl:

johnnyl

bestpud wrote: »

Such astounding ignorance!

You have absolutely no idea about home-ed, do you?

and that is my point regarding the generalisation. It seems to be ok when done one way but not another.

johnnyl

snozberry wrote: »

A question requires a question mark.

So since we have reverted to attacking grammar again, is it safe to assume that you can not challenge the point made in the post?