Hi, looking from advice from the wise. This is long so I apologise in advance.
My 10 year old son is desperately unhappy at school. He has been bullied on and off for a couple of years. We have worked with the school and other parents, and individual instances have been dealt with effectively at the time, but there always seems to be something. I think some of it is just him, he has become "sensitised" by it all and sees criticism/bullying in innocuous behaviour now.
He is really looking forward to moving up to secondary school, and there's less than a year to go, but he is very keen to get away from the school he is in. We have looked at alternatives: the only other school in the area we/he want is full and would require appeal to get into, difficult half way through the last year.
So to the Home ed question. I work maybe 60 hours a week as the sole breadwinner, DH is in the final year of a Part time MA and wants to do well: he is keen I think to get funding for a PhD. This is the new direction he has found after nearly 10 years as a SAHD, and it has lifted him out of quite a serious depression.
I can free up one day a week, have to work the rest. DH needs to be at college two days a week, and needs some time for course work. Realistically he could manage a day a week to teach. If we were to consider home ed, how would we manage the rest? I have wondered about throwing money at the problem and seeing if I can get a friend who is a supply teacher to teach him for a couple of days a week at home, for her usual rates of pay.
Home Ed sounds great if you are at home as a parent all the time. But what if you have to work? Can it be done?
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Alfreda · 19/10/2008 22:23
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