Home Education - another way (Education System)

Member Name: charlhrdy

Product:	Education System
Date:	16/09/05 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: you have awareness of you childrens education

Disadvantages: Time intensive, doesn't suit everyone

I intend to home educate my children, they are still young but the intention to educate at home has been there since I left school.

I was bullied pretty much all the way through school, for reasons I have yet to discover, the nature of school. I was moved to a Scottish school later and the bullying was continued, and the teachers had a go too. This is the reason for home education for my children.

However, there are other reasons, school appears to be a failed policing exercise at the moment. There is security all around the school, the are checks for drugs/knives/weapons, the teachers prowl looking for evidence. This is school.

The classes are enormous, the teachers have no control, they have no tools for dealing with minor issues. I don't want to see the cane return, but what can they do? I appreciate not all schools are the same, and my experience at school doesn't reflect everyones. It is not all about school, for me it's about bringing my children up differently, showing them another way of life for both them and me.

There are many other things I can say, but I'll get off my soap box now. I view home education as the way forward, it isn't for everyone and I suspect it will be hard. I have many ideas for how I want it to work for my children.

Education Otherwise is a good resource, I paid £20 for quarterly newsletters, contact lists of other people who home educate and other information on the Education Act and so forth.

I have found other information more useful, such as the books of A.S. Neil who founded Sommerhill and Free Range Education.

Summary: home education good for some