Hi Sam
If you are still in two minds, check out this study of British Home
Education.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.rothermel/Research/Researchpaper/BERAworkingpaper.htm

the evidence points to the fact that your daughter would be best home
schooled.
And you don't have to do anything that she does not want to do. - she
will still be learning more at home that in a school setting.
best wishes
Patricia

--- In homeeducatorsUK@..., "jackie703452"
<jackie834osborne@...> wrote:
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>
> Hi Sam, my name is Jackie and we live in Birmingham west midlands I took
> my son out of school in January, because of similar reasons, bullying
> and getting into trouble for fighting back. I did not feel the school
> handled it well at all.
>
> I had no idea about HE I have the education welfare office in regular
> contact as I am still in 2 minds about HE. I have read many encouraging
> things on the internet about HE but actually doing it I have found
> difficult, because I set up a timetable for him something like he would
> have at school, it worked ok for couple of weeks, but now it has broken
> down completely.
>
>
>
> I had a visit yesterday from a man from HE (Education Otherwise) and we
> had a long talk, and he explained to me that EO children are not
> required to study the curriculum. They don't need timetables, they just
> need a plan and to show progress in what they are doing. They don't need
> to be doing an 8 hour day and you can make everything more interesting.
> My son enjoys baking and cooking and experimenting with different
> flavours, and in doing these enjoyable things he is covering home
> economics, maths and science. It is time consuming and your time is no
> longer your own, you have to learn when to be teacher and when to be
> mum. On this note I would recommend HE.
>
> You may get negative feedback from people around you, who think children
> should be shut up in school, so you can have your time, and at times
> when my son and I have argued about whats next on the timetable, I could
> agree wholeheartedly, but now I know that things don't have to be rigid,
> I feel more positive for the future. I
>
> You do know that if HE is not working for you, you can opt to put your
> child back in school at any time, but I would definitely give it a go,
> you will find your daughter much more relaxed and happy.
>
> I hope you find this useful, and good luck in whatever you choose to do.
>
> Jackie Birmingham
>
>
> --- In homeeducatorsUK@..., "winterguardmumma"
> <winterguardmumma@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, my name is Sam and i have an 8yr old daughter, we live in E
> > London. She is currently in year 4 in a school she has only been at
> > since december. We moved her because we weren't happy with many
> > aspects of the previous school and she was becoming progressively
> > miserable with the place. She seemed to be learning less and wasn't
> > being challenges enough, the class teacher had her favorites and it
> > was noticable to everyone else. She was also having some problems
> > with bullying, nothing major but bullying all the same. The schools
> > attitude was to get the children together and talk about their
> > differences! It didn't work.
> > She is now in a school much closer to home and her initial couple of
> > weeks were very encouraging. She seemed really happy there, even
> > though she was bullied after a couple of days there, it was handled
> > promptly by the school and it stopped. She still wanted to go to
> > school. Home life was a different story though. She became
> > argumentative, tearful and nothing could be done to please her or
> > comfort her.She became so aggressive about everything. Over the
> > Christmas break we had our happy, loving daughter back for a short
> > time but we soon lost her again when she returned to school.
> > She has become verbally and physically agressive (mainly towards me,
> > sometimes the cat, but rarely her dad) She jumps down your throat
> > over the smallest thing and is very angry and miserable all the time.
> > For the last 2 weeks she has cried almost every day before school and
> > complained of stomach ache. The school don't help, they just tell her
> > to get on with it and send her back to class.
> > She got involved with the wrong children when she started there and
> > about a month ago got herself into serious trouble which involved the
> > police. She realised she had done wrong and apologised and as far as
> > everyone is concerned it is all forgotten. But now the other child
> > who she got in trouble with is making her life miserable insisting
> > that she play with her and her older sister is also picking on her
> > too now. The school are aware and i'm waiting to see what is going to
> > be done about it but i don't hold out much hope. Its breaking my
> > heart seeing her so unhappy every day and of course it isn't doing
> > much for home life
> >
> > Do you think HE is the answer? Sorry it was so long
> >
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