Hi all, I'm new here and I am about to start HE for my 9 year old DD. So many reasons have brought me to this decision - mostly pure dissatisfaction with the way schools are now. For instance, my son was doing his one of his A Level exams last week. They had to change classrooms 3 times during the exam and then he was pulled out of the exam for 30 minutes to help another pupil with his practical for the same exam! But it is also other things - my DD is so tired and miserable when she comes out of school, she has 'tummy ache' every morning before school, she says that she gets bored because the teacher never explains things and spends all the time with the kids who are slightly behind and the brighter ones get ignored. But when I do any kind of learning with her at home she is a different child; animated, hard working and interested. School has knocked all the joy of learning out of her. I have 2 older DC, and school has not been kind to them. My older DD had her head split open by another girl, and I was forever at the school...incidentally the girl who did it (with a bottle) was taken to Alton Towers and my daughter was moved class. My son, who is doing his A Levels, hates school...he starts study leave this week and is then finished with school, he is going to college to study music. His self esteem has been slowly eaten away by school life; it's not just girls who are b**chy I can tell you! I'm not for one minute saying mine are angels...haha, chance would be a fine thing! But I have seen them becoming more and more miserable with every passing year and I don't want my youngest DD to spend the next 8 years being the same.
My only question is when to do it. I was going to see out the school year, but honestly...I don't see the point in her going in if she's not going to continue. But I do want to give her the chance to say goodbye to her class, so it's either the end of this week or half term.
I'm really looking forward to it, and so is she.
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extraordinarAleigh · 06/05/2014 10:14
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