Hi -
Please forgive the possibly naive question. Our son is due to start in reception in Jan next year, and we are considering the option of homeschooling him. However, we don't know much about how this might work.
We are interested in the idea of becoming part of a homeschooling community where different families share in educating each other's children. (Mainly, this is because we feel our son would benefit from lots of different inputs into his education. He currently attends nursery school and thrives on the external stimulus.) I am assuming such a community would need to have a shared educational philosophy and similar ideas about how to put this into practice.
Do such communal homeschooling arrangemets exist? Part of our problem is that we are new in the UK, and don't have very good social networks here in general. We would hope that by becoming involved in homeschooling, we might widen and strengthen our community involvement. The risk would be that we stay rather isolated, which is the last thing we want.
I would be very gateful for any information that might help us better understand what kinds of homeschooling networks exist in the UK.
Thanks,
Kate
P.S. We are in South London
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Communal homeschooling - does it exist?!
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kate00 · 22/04/2008 21:29
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