Home educated

[kayt]

What do you think about the pros and cons regarding home education children aged 5-11 and those aged 11-16? Are there any home educators clubs in TnT? I have one nephew (10),who's being home educated in the Uk, here he's joined the home educated children club where he gets to arrange social, sport, museum and other educational trips with other kids. He even goes to a home educated camp in the summer complete with tents etc. Next year he has his eye out for the camp in France. Are there such opportunities for families that are able to home educate any of their children?

[Falcon]

Don't know ANY kid who is home schooled and underachieving.......I wonder if it takes a certain calibre of student to be able to be home schooled?

[lifehater]

well I would absolutely love to have my children home schooled and teach them myself.

[Solachica]

I don't know any1 who has been homeschooled. :?

[Sumana]

my brother was home schooled

[kayt]

My 10 year old nephew is home schooled not because he's an underachiever but because he is beyond his school age in academic work (rated up to a 16 year old by assessment). He used to disrupt the whole class due to boredom. There are schools that do exist for advance students but getting in them or getting funding to go private is very hard. This route leave him time to do is O levels from 11/12 one or two at a time at his leisure instead of craming all of them together at 16. He is a very childish 10 year old and I can't see him being the streetwise type anytime soon. He has his own child centred curriculum and the local education authority check on him once a year to see his portfolio of work.

People home school for many reasons. The most important is that the parents don't feel that their child is getting the education suited to their needs to excel. It could be a child that does not do well in large classes or struggles or had a learning/behavioural disability/disorder or advanced students or they have just moved/immigrated from another school system from another country and have not adapted to the new place.

[kayt]

I'll just like to add that those I know who are home educated have done so through choice. None of the students have been suspended or expelled from schools previously.

[KFCSpicy]

STrangely enuff my department Manager is head of the LBTH Home Education in the borough. I get the cases and have to log them and file them away so she can have easy access to review each file and visit each home for herself to see what the benefits are of them being home schooled.

The government is not against home schooling in the borough or anywhere for that matter is just the manner in which some parents do it. Plus Jane wants to make sure that the quality is above board. What the government has a hard time with is the reasons why yuh picknee not in a school so that is their first priority to find out why and who and what...Offer you an alternative space in a school in your area or of your choice when one comes up as an alternative to home schooling cause believe me it can and does go wrong.

The kids on our lists are home schooled cause either their parents want them out of the rubbish school environment or because of personal family made choices. Nothing in my opinion is wrong with home schooling, it neither makes the kids better or lesser than their public/private schooled counterparts.

[scrunter]

I know a parent who home schooled her first child up to age 9 then sent him to a primary school where entered standard three .Academically he is sound but socially he was a mess.Took him awhile to adjust.He is in secondery school now .My nephew children are being home schooled in Canada.Again the only downside is the social aspect.However to counteract that the boys are in soccer clubs and hockey clubs and baseball clubs ..that sort of things.

[kayt]

The socialising aspect is hard when home schooling. My nephew did have a go at regular school until he was 8. He had changed schools once and he still wanted all the teacher's attention focused just on him. He got bored with the pace of the work. It was too slow and when he wanted more information or wanted to go further in a topic the teacher would point out that going that far was not in the curriculum. If my sister had better funds she would have sought out a place at a good private school that caters for a child like my nephew. The councils do do assessments for children who may have a disability or are advanced but getting them to fork out the £400 per child to do this assessment is almost impossible.

Some dangers of homeschooling can be some parents relying solely on indoctrination to teach their children or the child/children becoming isolated if there's no socialising or group sport activities arranged.

Does the Ministry of Education in TnT have any staff devoted to checking up on homeschoolers in TnT? That 'Chocolate' girl who was in the newspapers with her respect campaign is home schooled.

[carik]

We used to homeschool. Generally, I've found, children who are homeschooled tend to do better than their peers socially. Studies show they are more involved in a variety of sports and activities. They also tend to be more involved in their communities. They tend not to give in readily to peer pressure and, sometimes, this can get them labeled as 'socially awkward' by peers and teachers.

[Falcon]

We used to homeschool. Generally, I've found, children who are homeschooled tend to do better than their peers socially. Studies show they are more involved in a variety of sports and activities. They also tend to be more involved in their communities. They tend not to give in readily to peer pressure and, sometimes, this can get them labeled as 'socially awkward' by peers and teachers.

can we see some links please?

[carik]

Sure. Many of the homeschooled kids I've known were actively sought by colleges and employers. You'll find a lot of myths about the homeschooled child. Everybody seems to know about Aunt Mary's next door neighbor's best friend's homeschooled son who watched the tele all day. You'll find examples of laziness in every type of school. However, they are not the norm just the generalization.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q ... i_n9443747 (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3955/is_200410/ai_n9443747)

My first experience with kids who had been homeschooled was while teaching at the University. I was surprised and very impressed. Years later, I found I enjoyed homeschooling as well.

Hope this helps.

edited: Just wanted to add a study commissioned by the HSLDA http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/Socialization.asp

We were very involved in sports, various groups and community while homeschooling. In fact, the 'home' part of the schooling is a bit of a myth for some of us. In our area, children had to be tested every so often and my child always tested at least two grades ahead in every subject.

[Falcon]

Thank you...hope others see this as THE way to go....make a statement then back it up with actual studies!! Great stuff....will try to read them all today........

[Somebody007]

Don't know ANY kid who is home schooled and underachieving.......I wonder if it takes a certain calibre of student to be able to be home schooled?



Case in point....look at me...when I was 17 years old, I didn't do A levels at school. I studied for the exams on my own and at home. Even though I didn't get exceptionally very high grades, I did pretty good enough to get accepted into UWI, St. Augustine for an undergraduate degree programme in Sociology.

When I did this thing though, I was very determined to get ahead.....this should remind you of those posts I use to put on the ole board while I was still a student at the University of Manchester (Manchester Business School to be exact) while in the UK....... :D :D :D :D

[kayt]

My nephew has been producing more course work than he ever did in school since his education change. That's because his mother makes sure he does it. He's stubborn so she sometimes has to be sneaky about the way she introduces it. His father is dislexic which he didn't find out about until he was an adult. He'd done badly in school, regularly causing enough trouble to get kicked out. All to hide the fact that he was struggling to just to read. He had to take himself to part-time remedial classes as an adult. Just having his son exist in school was good enough for him. My sis wants my nephew to go beyond the habit of just surviving and enjoy excelling with no one to hold him back.

[cocoa]

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[bubblinbrown31]

Hey,

I plan to home school my kids, when I have them... the only thing is that public school teach them to manage the world and its people... u know... but i think i'll do a better job at teaching them and they will be alot more free to become themselves