Is your child miserable at school?

Question

Do you know it is legal (and fun!) to home educate in the u'k? There are many groups out there who can support you and give you advice. Education Otherwise is the largest but also religeous organisations. Do a google search. You write to your childs school and say you want to de register them. You are fre to take them out of school and educate them according to their age and aptitude NOT according to the National Curriculum. It doesn't have to be 'school at home' It is a life style, you can successfully home educate if you have 1 child, 10 children, have no exam results yourself, you just need to have the interest of your child at heart. Our children have hectic social lives, they communicate effectively with adults young and old and also children of all ages. They are not 'odd', they have their education tailored to their own interests and include some of the National Curriculum. YOU CAN do it, if you want your children home - do it now - be free from the rat race home educate.

Answer 1

sorry i wont knw since i dont have a child yet

Answer 2

I'm 16 and in year eleven, and even though studying and exams are really hard I actually enjoy school and I'm really glad that I go. I do know some people who were home-schooled in primary school and they're not weird at all so I agree with you very much. I just think that you have to consider if it's in the child's best interests first, because sometimes it might not be the best thing for them.

Answer 3

I don't see a question there...just you expressing your own pov, hitched up to a public advert for home education.

I reckon most people here would know it's legal to homeschool in the UK - I tell them it's legal pretty much everywhere other than Germany often enough! lol!

Still, I'm 15 (in Australia rather than the UK), have been home educated all my life (apart from a brief flirtation, five weeks, with school in Primary 3) and am one of 9 siblings, all of whom are home educated.

It works very well for our family and is, far and away, the best option, education-wise, for all of us kids. You won't find any one of us who reckons they're missing out on anything beneficial by staying at home. Okay my 6yr old brother used to say he wanted to go to school but that turned out to be cuz he was desperate for a bookbag; he thought you could only have a bookbag if you went to school! LOL!

I know I'm going to stick with the family 'tradition' and home-educate my own kids when I have them.

Answer 4

mines an only child and loves going to see her friends at school so i couldn't deprive her of that but she does seem to learn more in 15 Min's with me than a day at school

Answer 5

I don't think it's an option if both parents work.

Answer 6

Well good for you, you know what you want for your children and know they can cope with home teaching, i think you have written a good piece of info for those people who would like to try it, these are your opinions and you have right to do so, everyone is different it would be no good if we all did the same thing, personally I'm happy with my children's education, they have a fantastic supportive school,and enjoy every minute, if there ever came a point where they were so unhappy then i would seriously think about teaching at home, we must remember that not everyone is able to do this with work commitments and I'm sure given a choice to be at home with their kids they would jump at the chance.

Answer 7

I home educate mine and we all love it socila life is great as well.

Winston Churchill's words seem apt: "Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school." Should I pack my little girl off to such a place?

Define the word Education if you can

Answer 8

my three children  who are at school love it, why on earth would i keep them cooped up at home to learn, when they can go to school and be with their friends and learn greater things that no parent could possibly teach at home by themselves!!!!

Answer 9

If you are going to home school, you have to do it properly. Some parents are good at this, unfortunately some are not. I have known both kinds.

One family homeschooled six wonderful, intelligent, socially adept children. They did great.

One family homeschooled two children through year six, then put them in school. They are also doing well.

One family who said they homeschooled once told me in December that they had only done two weeks worth of school work since September. Obviously the mother did not have her kids education as her priority. They were always out doing something else.

Another family had three children who were socially awkward to the point that it was almost painful to try to speak to them. The boys could barely read at ages eight and ten. The thirteen year old could read well. The mother simply skipped things she didn't think it was important for the children to know, like science and history.

So what is my answer? If you are going to do this, make sure you know what you are doing. If you do, it can work out great, if you don't you can ruin your kids for life.

Answer 10

It depends entirely on the child.  We have one child in the family who was home educated and is now in the sixth form of a local grammer school and doing fantastically.  She is well rounded, has many friends in many different areas and a much wider social mix than she would have had at school.

But she was self motivated, very intelegent and wanted to learn.  She did the English, Maths and Science and then did subjects that interested her - ancient history, researching her family tree - learning how to use sources such as census, parish records etc.  She loves languages and learnt Latin and Ancient Greek as well as French, German and Spanish.   She also learnt windsurfing, was a member of the country hockey team.  For her, she would never have got these chances at school.

For my daughter school is best as she is not so self motivated and finds it harder to make friends so the support structure is very helpful.  But I monitor it very closely and if necessary, I would remove her from school and home educate.  If done properly, it is brilliant.

I would also like to add that I know two home educated kids who are at Oxford uni at the moment and many more going through universities throughout the country and as they are used to working independently, are finding uni alot easier than many of the kids who have come from the local schools.

Answer 11

Just to answer your question "Is your child miserable in school?"

My son loved school.  He had a great time. He loved talking to his friends.  He talked to his friends during class, during assembly, and basically just had a wonderful time.

Somewhere along the line, he never learned that he was there for an education.

We pulled him out in the 8th grade to teach him at home.  He still loves to talk to his friends but now we can separate the learning time from the social time.

Home schooling works for us.

Answer 12

home schooling causes kids to be extremely weird.. they develop no social skills adn have no real freinds coz their parents have to introduce them adn usually thats to other weirdo kids

DONT DO IT

its just weird

Answer 13

HHmmm

Answer 14

How I envy your country .

We have no such facilities here  !

Answer 15

I already do this and my son could not be getting a better education!

Answer 16

What's your question? Sounds more like a rant/ essay. Regardless, not all parents make good educators. It takes patience, love, time, quality lessons, variance, social settings with other kids, field trips, etc. So many focus on Biblical aspects or their favorite theme- Math all day or writing stories.

My son struggled in Math so I took him out of public school 2 hours a day and we did all types of math exercises, cooked, baked, split fruit, measured furniture in the house, even grocery shopped and he had to figure out coupons and sales, what it would cost, etc.

Again, making sure professional educators are helping the parent are looking over materials help. Some swear their kid is sooo smart and is not up to grade level when compared to peers. I suggest if a parent CAN and is willing to do it, great. But I'd prefer some kids with a teacher in a school environment than home with some wacko parents all day.

Answer 17

I am afraid I wouldn't get it right and you only really have one shot at it when it comes to your children. How to be sure I could accomplish any better a job than the Teacher?

Answer 18

Any child who has any shred of hope in not growing up to be a total tool is most likely very miserable at school.

Answer 19

Better things to do!

Answer 20

say if home educate your child you will get to the point where you/i do not know what we are on about and will have to send the child back to school to learn. This can be a hard time, the child is much older when they go back to school and will find it difficult to rejoin make friends, for a start they will not have much confidence, at home they will be able to have regular breaks and depending on how soft the parent they can do what they want, they coulkd end-up just mis-behaving at school.