Should Parents Even Be Allowed To 'home School' Their Children?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6875257/Homeschooling-parents-forced-sign-register-protect-extremist-indoctrination.html

[Calicogirl]

Rather than me blathering on, have a look at this, it explains all sorts of options :) x

https://home-ed.info/gcse

[Mamyalynne]

There is some basic info here about going on to examinations.

http://www.ahomeeducation.co.uk/where-can-home-schooled-child-take-examinations.html

My experience is only limited to the time two of my Grandchildren were home schooled during their primary school age range, both are now back in mainstream.

[Sqad]

Excellent...thanks Calico.

[fender62]

what about children who are home schooled in religion only, to the point where they can recite the whole book and nothing else, and girls not taught at all, but prepped to be married off abroad.

[Spicerack]

Spath not only went to school, it was approved. ;)
My gut feeling is that parents should be able to keep their children off school and teach them as much or as little as they like. After all, the state doesn't own children.
People can have happy lives without qualifications or 'careers', imo.
We import plenty of people who've had little or no education.

[anotheoldgit]

Spicerack

/// After all, the state doesn't own children. ///

Perhaps not but they can take action if they are not properly brought up.

[Spicerack]

That's the rub, AOG.
'not properly brought up' is kind of subjective. Sounds like something the PC brigade would say.

[spathiphyllum]

"Spath not only went to school, it was approved. ;) "

;oP

[spathiphyllum]

"People can have happy lives without qualifications or 'careers'"

Oh gosh yes. I know people who haven't worked a day in their life but they're happy in their own homes council or not.

[grumpy01]

Some parents don’t have much option when they cannot get a proper diagnosis for the psychological problem their child has and the school being key stage attainment levels driven is not prepared to understand the child has problems.

[anotheoldgit]

Spicerack

Oh so it is PC if one approves of the authorities removing a child from it's parents, who are seen to be mistreating the child?

[Rockrose]

//Perhaps not but they can take action if they are not properly brought up. //
What do you define as properly brought up?
How do the schools intervene right now?

[anotheoldgit]

grumpy01

In special cases as you have pointed out, then I have no problem with that, but otherwise all children should be educated away from their home, to the standards set out by the education authorities.

[grumpy01]

I quite agree AOG.

[Spicerack]

It's the sort of thing the PC brigade like, aog.
Didn't they remove a foster-child from parents who supported UKIP.
They twist possibly well intentioned rules to suit themselves.

[Spicerack]

'not properly brought up.' doesn't necessarily mean mistreated. (imo)

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

My answer was to Spicerack who put:

/// After all, the state doesn't own children. ///

I was a merely pointing out in some cases the state can, by removing them from their parents, who also don't 'own' their children, they only bring them into the world and look after them until such times when they fly the nest and become their own person.

[Baldric]

I was brought up by a single parent, Mum, who owned and ran her own business, she taught me from the time I was old enough to pay attention. When I started school just short of my fifth birthday I was bored witless until about 7-8 years old when school caught up with what she was teaching me.

[spathiphyllum]

As i said on a uni thread. School is just free child care up until year 9.

[pixie374]

Home schooling should definitely be an option. My niece is currently being homeschooled, due to autism/ anxiety and would be missing out entirely otherwise. It did take a lot of organisation, but she does her work online as part of an "academy" with others that do the same.
To be fair to spath... I am self-employed and work a lot of hours, but often irregularly. They include evenings and weekends and gaps in the day to go back later. I also share and swap with my sister, so being online during standard "office hours" doesn't necessarily mean he isn't working much x