I REALLY want to be homeschooled how do i convince my mum?

Question

I REALLY want to be homeschooled how do i convince my mum?- my mum said it was illegal in the uk but surely its not :O

Answer 1

LOL. your mum is making that up.

Home schooling can:

Improve your concentration - no friends there to distract you.

Its on a more one to one basis, so you learn a whole lot more - if you have a class of 20-30 kids then the teacher will only be able to spend so long with each student. Also travel costs are saved so they work in hand with tutor fees. You also can work in an environment youre used to, and don't need to adjust. It's also more time efficient, and the sessions are generally more focused. If there are any problems, it is considerably easier for your parents to speak to the tutor, instead of them having to come all the way into school. Also, even if you don't make much progress, you can enter exams whenever you want. If you feel you are not ready, you can take it externally at a time that's better suited to you (though I wouldnt recommend that).

lol hope that helped ;) if you cant do it, just let me talk to your mum

Answer 2

It's not illegal... but your parents or other tutors will need to have teaching qualifications and enough knowledge to give you a decent education. It is very hard to get approved for home-schooling your children, which is why almost all children are educated at school.

Why do you want to be homeschooled so much? Couldn't you just go to a smaller school or a private school?

Answer 3

hi my name is stacey, i live in west midlands (uk) i'm 14 and i have home education because i was bullied by teacher's and pupils. u can email me if u ever want to talk and if u want i can try and convince ur mom. email me at [e-mail]

hope this helped good luck

Answer 4

I agree with Firebird (I always seem to actually!).  I home educate my daughter partially for the same reasons that you want to be home educated.

Your mother doesn't have to know everything - I certainly don't - and we are doing a whole range of subjects.  If it is a subject I know little about, then I learn with my daughter and it is great fun.  Should your mother not wish to get involved too much with your tuition, you can do correspondence courses or have a private tutor for some subjects.  If you are just plain poor like I am, then just make sure you get the right books for whatever it is you want to learn.  If you can read, you can learn!

No, HE is not illegal, you are not obliged to follow the dreaded National Curriculum, you do not have to do GCSEs (but you would be advised to get some sort of qualifications and there are alternatives to GCSEs) and you do not have to inform your Education Authority or show them your work or anything.

Your only legal obligation is to inform your school in writing that you are being home-educated.  You can leave it as late as the morning you start HE which as what we did.  Less chance then of the school's head droning on about socialisation, wonderful school facilities etc ad nauseam.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Hey there,

It is definitely not illegal! I was home educated and we used the ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) curriculum. If there is a particular reason that you want to be home educated ie because of bullying, not liking school etc, maybe you could talk to her about it?

Hope this helps

God Bless

P.S. You don't always need tutors. The ACE curriculum is work book based and very self explanatory. You don't have to do external exams. You just do modular exams. Also, if you are doing a seperate curriculum, your parents don't need to have any qualificatons to teach you as it's pretty self explanatory.

Answer 6

Hello Aimee,

                    well as you've probably discovered by now home schooling is not illegal in the UK, in fact I think it's too easy to take a child out of school. I understand that bullying is difficult in school and can make life a misery, and I'm sorry if that's what you're going through. When I was seven I was taken out of school, and personally I found it a living h**l. But anyway I think everyone has to understand that in this world there are stupid horrible people, you will come across them for the rest of your life and you need to know how to deal with them. When I left home after 8 years of home schooling I didn't know how to deal with these people and I think half of the lesson I missed in school was learning how to deal with these people. Another down effect I found with lots of people who were home schooled was lack of discipline in their daily routine. Sure it starts off well and then slows down and before you know it youre watching Countdown instead of working. You're at an age now where making friends is going to be REALLY important and will take you on to the next stage of your life. One other aspect that you have to consider and will probably be difficult is who is your mum/dad when she's/he's not around you? If you are home schooled you are going to see your mums up days and down days, and you don't want that affecting you when you're studying. Well, I hope you don't find this too negative, but I personally have had really bad experiences of home schooling. I really think you should try finding a new school, tell your mum you have something serious to talk about, sit her down and explain. All the best luck to you Aimee.x

Answer 7

It's absolutely NOT illegal in the UK.

How long has this 'phase' being going on? I suggest you read up on the law and also on HE in general, put together a plan of how YOU would like to do it, and then talk to your mum again. It's entirely possible that she honestly does think it's illegal, it's not like schools go out of their way to tell parents that there's an alternative!

Added: History, easy! German, you'll probably want to make arrangements to practice with someone who speaks it to help you prepare for the oral component. Art, now that will be tricky because of the assessed course work. The question is, why take Art as a GCSE? If you want to go to art college you'd be better off working on your technique and creating a good portfolio since that's what they'll be interested in. BTW, if further ed is your aim you probably ought to do the English GCSE, not vital but if you're going to do some anyway that one will make getting a college place easier.

Answer 8

well, i hated highschool, it was really difficult for me. I do not agree with the person who said bullying is just part of the fun. I wasn't bullied as such so i don't know what you're going through, but i became invisable to my friends and everyone else. Which, i'll grant you, is difficult for an overweight child to become (i was really overweight then) but i just remember that i completely lost myself. please don't think this is all about me, it has a point. It is difficult to describe any kind of emotional and/or mental difficulties but i suppose if i were to use a label it would be depression. Emptiness would be a better description for me. I simply wasn't there. There was nothing for me at school, i came home and every night i would just lie in bed dreading the next day. Obviously the feeling is worse then any words could describe, but if i said 'i used to pray to die' that would sound pretty meladramatic so i won't (even though i just did) okay? So i know its hard, i lived my life there in silence, yet i had to pretend there was nothing wrong because nobody believed me, my 'friends' just carried on as normal and i walked beside them like a ghost. I just didn't get the whole highschool thing, the teachers annoyed me. In fact the teacher's themselves took whatever joy there is out of learning for me, is it me or are all DT teacher's wierdly strickt yet at the same time here's just nothing too them, no sense of humour, not a great deal of intellegence, no actual compassion to other humans? Don't even get me started on the maths teachers. There's areas of the school your not allowed to stand in for some stupid pointless reason like the drama corridor, if you forget your PE socks three times in a row you get a detention, the central heatings kept on in the middle of summer, for the sole reason of making fat kid's faces go as red as possible because there too embarrased to take of their school jumpers (like me!) I mean what the h**l is the point??? Its just the whole atmopshere is horrible, constant bitching, I just felt so uncomfortable and pretty much unwelcome even by the teachers. The whole experience was horrible, however, after year eleven was over i left and went to a sixth form college, rarther then stay on where it seemed every square inch of the place had a bad memory for me. But the atmospere at sixth form is sooooo different, its unbelievable, especially in an independent sixth form school without the rest of the years. I'm still not exactly socially adapt, but i can say what i like to people and its not challenged or thought of as wierd, cause its just me. People are either into work or they're not, it doesn't matter either way, you can be as intelligent as you want, there's a libary where you can actually read or work in silence, computer rooms, and you can leave in free periods and just get out into town. There's so much more freedom and independence, there's no such thing as detention, nor are there school bells (which pissed me off when i had a migrane i'll tell you).

It's still difficult for me anyways but thats just because i'm me and i seem to purposefully make my life more diffcult. But i no longer wish to die. I know i live in my mind too much rarther then in reality, but there's subjects at sixth form like philosophy, even English literature is great and verges on philosophical which suits me that You can just concentrate on. No more maths, no more self righteous DT teachers, and God, no more sodding PE, if you hate PE like me, make up eventful excuses in a letter each week getting you off and see how long they'll believe them. I'm sure you'll agree that detentions are far more prefable to a cross country run. If i was more confident i would have written a note excusing me from PE on the account of being so overwhelmingly bored of the whole thing.

My advice to you is that you are YOU. Think about who you are. I was nobody nor did i exist. Reality folded in on me and crushed me, I hated my life. Is this you? Now i'm not even that person anymore, i can safely say that now, i'm me. Right? But, it is unlikely that your mother will ever let you be homeschooled, mine actually laughed at me and said if i was that unhappy i should move schools. I thought i'll bloody well move allright, move out of this life and into death, i'm sure there's more worthwhile lessons there.  I didn't even know who i was, i couldn't have survived if i had to go to a whole new school, so that option was out for me. The only thing left, was to get trhough highschool. I did, you will too. Read. (start with Stephen Fry's autobiography 'moab is my washpot' for no other reason except it is brilliant and work you're way up. Check out amazon and see what people reccommend in their listamania thats what got me through mainly. Become rebellious. Find something. Be eccentric in your own way. If you don't want to do something, don't. I was so scared to be different, don't be too. I don't know wether it will get better for you, it didn't for me until i left. But i didn't make the most of it at all, i Hid. Don't do it too, either at highschool or in home schooling because you'll regret it. If you go into homeschooling, will you ever be able to interact with people again? Things really do change in sixth form, i love learning things now, i mean its difficult, but its not even remotly the same as highschool. And i know other people who were bullied at highschool and came home crying every day and they all got through it, eventually. You just need to find yourself and any form of humour, She stook with it and foud some great mates, i know i didn't but i sure as h**l wouldn't have done any better in home schooling. There would have been nothing left to try for at all, nothing left to live for. Plus you must have to be rich anyways to afford a tutor.    

I know this is a long winded answer and really isn't answering the question but i just wanted to share with you my dull experiences and mistakes. If there was one thing i regret, is loosing my humour and myself.

p.s. writing things on your excersie books really gets to them, the teachers. Write 'that way madness lies...' (Shakespeare) on your maths book, see what they say.

Find something that is you.

Answer 9

Hi home schooling can be done as my cousin was having the same problems with bullying and it made him ill, no matter how many time his parents went to the school they did nothing about it. So in the end they took him out of school and taught him at home, he did his exams at college and is at college full time.

Hope you get sorted and good luck.

Answer 10

Aimee..

Why do you want to get home schooled?

Dont you want to hang out with friends after school..

Dont you want to feel the joy of staying away from your moms eye, discovering the world with your friends, taking decision of your own...

At home, you'll get definately bored. A teacher coming to YOUR place, mom eying on your progress et al.

Wouldn't you miss your friends and all that typical school life?

There must some reason, thats making you back out.

**The first thing that came in your mom's head to make you not do home-schooling was telling its illegal!!**

Think calmly about it, aimee. Make sure your reason is really, REALLY strong for making you do home schooling.

if its lame bullying, not being able to afjust etc.. then i must tell you... Its the PART of the fun!!

:)

Do the thing that you feel is BEST for your own self

Your Well Wisher,

Winx Girl

Answer 11

Unfortunately, the decision is dependent on your mother's willingness to home-school you. My parents were very willing (against my will even). However, they sat me down with textbooks and made me do all the work. If you are very independent and can read the lessons and take tests w/out much help from your parents, let them know that the hassle will be minimal.

I don't know if it's legal in the UK. I talked to someone in Germany when I was home-schooling and they said that happens if the child is sick, mainly.

Answer 12

well it depends on your grade, and how bad the bulling is. as for as it being illegal... its not. but just in case look up "homeschooling in the UK".  

to convince her, just simply say that you feel hopeless at school, and would feel much better at home with family.

and that you can still get ou tof the house by getting a job.

home schooling is great because you can advance at a much faster rate, and also get a better gpa.

collage's are more likely to accept people who have been home schooled one or more years, and have a public school experiance.