Yes the social aspect is the most important, and something hard to compensate for in home schooling. the more that do it the better that will become, but then the state system should be sorted out to work for us rather than this crazy situation we have now.
Homeschooling is regulated the same as state schools. You still have to follow the national curriculum. Schools now employ Learning support Assistants to take classes. Any old scrubber off the street can be an LSA our head Teacher said. We didn't police check until the teaching union got wind of this and forced the school to do it. Still, there are large teams of LSA's in schools who are completely unqualified acting as crowd control in classrooms. Don't get me wrong, there are systems in place for training and supporting LSA's in career progression, but in my knowledge this isn't adhered to at all by the schools. Each Head Teacher has ultimate power in his or her school to use the budget as he sees fit. Budgets are stretched as it is, training is very low on the priority list for nearly every school in the UK.
Schools do lie to parents (children have no say). As I say I used to work in a school, this was a year ago; and I was a school governor too. I know exactly how much parents and the governors are lied to.
You can have one to one learning. You just behave so badly to get excluded, then your LA provides complimentary education with a 1 to 1 ratio of teachers to kids. It's great.
I have Christian friends who home school and they do teach creationism in the respect that they don't teach evolution. I don't think that's so very bad as nearly all children of Christians I know grow up to be non Christians. You have to let the child think independently.
Homeschooling is regulated the same as state schools. You still have to follow the national curriculum. Schools now employ Learning support Assistants to take classes. Any old scrubber off the street can be an LSA our head Teacher said. We didn't police check until the teaching union got wind of this and forced the school to do it. Still, there are large teams of LSA's in schools who are completely unqualified acting as crowd control in classrooms. Don't get me wrong, there are systems in place for training and supporting LSA's in career progression, but in my knowledge this isn't adhered to at all by the schools. Each Head Teacher has ultimate power in his or her school to use the budget as he sees fit. Budgets are stretched as it is, training is very low on the priority list for nearly every school in the UK.
Schools do lie to parents (children have no say). As I say I used to work in a school, this was a year ago; and I was a school governor too. I know exactly how much parents and the governors are lied to.
You can have one to one learning. You just behave so badly to get excluded, then your LA provides complimentary education with a 1 to 1 ratio of teachers to kids. It's great.
I have Christian friends who home school and they do teach creationism in the respect that they don't teach evolution. I don't think that's so very bad as nearly all children of Christians I know grow up to be non Christians. You have to let the child think independently.
