Advice on Transitioning to Homeschooling: Pros, Cons, and Starting Points
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@fulfillingmycalling yes, SEND children often fall through cracks in mainstream. Its a huge shame. Although I cannot speak for your own personal experiences, often the fault can be the system, not the individual teacher.
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@fulfillingmycalling thats not nice at all.
@tonyj88 No I mean they aren’t particularly articulate and certainly not any more educated than others I know who aren’t teachers.
It’s a commendable role because I think it takes great skill to teach children but I don’t think it’s anything that a parent can’t do, particularly given how archaic and target driven our education system is.
It’s a commendable role because I think it takes great skill to teach children but I don’t think it’s anything that a parent can’t do, particularly given how archaic and target driven our education system is.
@tad91 sadly I’ve also met quite a few, either that or they just can’t be bothered. A teacher that marks childrens maths wrong, apparently 10% of 100 is no longer 10, one that didn’t know the difference between site and sight, another who told a child that the H was the silent letter in the word Who. I was a classroom assistant and they’d often ask me how to spell words 
@fulfillingmycalling as a classroom assistant, school governor and mother of a child with SEN the teacher told me the SEN children needed too much help and not to bother as she didn’t have time particularly upsetting as my child was in her class.
particularly upsetting as my child was in her class.@tad91 I certainly don't think teachers are more educated than others, just more educated in things children need to know to be successful in the archaic, target driven system we have. Like most people wouldn't necessarily know what a present perfect tense is (and why would they need to) but it was decided by someone (Gove most likely) that 7 and 8 year olds need to know. So its on the yr 3 curriculum, so teachers know it, and more importantly they know how to teach it to 7 and 8 year olds so that they understand. But most teachers wouldn't be able to rewire a house, defend a murder case, operate a crane or perform heart surgery. But if somebody was on here asking for opinions on whether they should perform a bypass on their kids themselves, I would be curious of their reasoning too for not wanting to leave it to professionally trained personnel.
shingler7992
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@medic_man it's maths not math.
@medic_man that's awful. And its not just SEN. You have more than likely seen, when the extra hours are allotted for intervention, it doesn't go to those most in need, but those children below who are most likely to reach "expected". At that point its like the others who never will are written off. But is that the teacher's fault? The head's? Or the system that says a school is only as good as the number of 'expected' children it produces.
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@tad91 I was always correcting the work given to my children to do as homework when they were in primary. When I complained I was told I was the only one who had a problem with it 
I’m talking about things like giving a list of spellings where one or more were misspelled, every single week, science that was factually incorrect, poor grammar within English text that they were supposed to answer questions about. It got even worse when I saw the lockdown work at secondary level, I was horrified!
I’m talking about things like giving a list of spellings where one or more were misspelled, every single week, science that was factually incorrect, poor grammar within English text that they were supposed to answer questions about. It got even worse when I saw the lockdown work at secondary level, I was horrified!@sarah92083 doesn't sound like that person should be teaching.
@shingler7992 Im assuming you meant to type “thick” and “many”.
I’m responding to this gentleman who asked why not leave it to the professionals. My point is that in many cases parents are just as equipped to give their children a good education as teachers are. En masse I’d suggest not as I think that is a different type of skill, but that isn’t what this post is about.
I’m responding to this gentleman who asked why not leave it to the professionals. My point is that in many cases parents are just as equipped to give their children a good education as teachers are. En masse I’d suggest not as I think that is a different type of skill, but that isn’t what this post is about.
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@shingler7992 
you failed then huh
you failed then huh@tad91 parent who is well educated in the subjects required, how to teach them and has a good ability to identify a child's gaps/needs is arguably better equipped than a teacher, especially as they would be teaching 1:1,1:2 or in the op case 1:4. But also as in the op case, she herself states she is not well educated in the subjects necessary, which is exactly why I am curious as to her reasons for wanting to do it.
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@tonyj88 sadly more than one 
and I’m astonished at how little people seem to care. When you question the quality of your child’s education, the answer certainly shouldn’t be “well you are the only one who has complained”, at that stage it was a query. It did move to a complaint and then I was told the resources came from a place that many other teachers and schools used….
By that time I was already removing one child from school and the other was going to secondary, where I found that things could actually get much worse. When I eventually contacted my MP with it (got nowhere with the school) I was told “as long as they are providing education there is no problem” and by that time I’d also looked at many other schools, both local and nationally at the provisions over lockdown and was absolutely horrified at what I saw in a lot of schools. Not all but over half.
and I’m astonished at how little people seem to care. When you question the quality of your child’s education, the answer certainly shouldn’t be “well you are the only one who has complained”, at that stage it was a query. It did move to a complaint and then I was told the resources came from a place that many other teachers and schools used….By that time I was already removing one child from school and the other was going to secondary, where I found that things could actually get much worse. When I eventually contacted my MP with it (got nowhere with the school) I was told “as long as they are providing education there is no problem” and by that time I’d also looked at many other schools, both local and nationally at the provisions over lockdown and was absolutely horrified at what I saw in a lot of schools. Not all but over half.
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@shingler7992 it’s something that many many parents can do and do very successfully.