Home schooling UK, anyone do it??

[ELP]

Most of my children enjoy and get on greatly in school, but one, my 9yr old boy just seems to have one issue after the other. At home he is a lovely boy, but in class he is disruptive and in the playground can become aggressive at the stupidest provocation. imo, both he, me and the school would be a calmer with him at home.

We could probably afford a tutor once a week for him, and I had a good level of education myself, does anyone have any suggestions??

[Dreamofpink]

I know this is an old thread, but we home-ed and love it!

[HopefulMonster]

I actually have a question because I didn't actually know you could even do that here in the uk! How do you go about something like this? With absolutely no disrespect intended how do you make sure they are learning all the appropriate social skills? I only ask because at 2 my LO doesn't go to nursery or anything else and you wouldn't believe the number of so called health professionals, not to mention other mothers who claim I am doing damage by not socialising LO properly (despite the fact they have the language skills of a 3-4 year old so imo I can't be doing that badly!)

I am anxious because imo school in general isn't at the level our children deserve so any other options would be gratefully considered :)

[ELP]

I think the rules are, if your child has never been registered for school then you can home school at will. if they are in school you have to write a letter withdrawing your child from school. You are legally aloud to teach your child whatever curriculum you as a parent decide is right for your child, as long as they are being educated. Obviously readind writing and maths are an obvious good choice. write more later!

[Dreamofpink]

That's correct ELP. We've never registered ours at school and they never went to nursery so we've just continued in our same daily routine as from birth. It's a lovely unstructured natural way of life and we are quite active within the local home-ed groups so know quite a few other local familes that we meet up with. There's always events and activites being organised and lots on offer. Granted we get no financial help from the govt, but we don't have uniform/school dinner or trips money to have to find so it all balances out. We also don't have the ridiculous pressure of birthday parties for 30+kids to put on either :) The socialisation question is the biggest MYTH surrounding home-ed. My kids are very open and chatty with pretty much everyone and know how to talk to people of all ages. They have friends of their own age but they are not in an unnatural set-up of a class of kids all the same age and no other ages. When have you ever worked somewhere where you're surrounded by 30+ people the same age as yourself? It just doesn't happen when you're an adult and you have to know how to relate to people of all ages. There are some fantastic books to read on the subject:
Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits Of Homeschooling - Rachel Gathercole
How Children Learn - John Holt
How Children Fail - John Holt
Instead of Education - John Holt

and if you're in the UK you can get all the legal info on Education Otherwise (http://www.educationotherwise.net)

HTH! Just PM me if you want to chat about it :)