There are often reservations from family and friends about
whether home educated children are able to socialise or be sociable.
Not exact matches
Whether you're baby proofing your
home, buying a car seat, choosing a crib or following the safety guidelines to reduce the risk of SIDS, use this month to
educate yourself on how to keep baby safe and happy while showing your older
children how they can help out too.
Establishing a routine is a great help in running a household
whether you
home educate or not — but doing so and
home educating will allow you to schedule in anything which might require more concentration for the older
children or might need you to be more available — carrying out science experiments or doing messy play, for example.
If you're just starting to consider
home education, or have recently taken your
children out of school to
educate them at
home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your
children to learn,
whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around
home education,
whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These
home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».
People sometimes ask
whether it is possible to
home educate older
children when you also have younger
children to take care of.
It's very rare for a long - term
home educated child to experiment seriously with dangerous behaviour, or to worry about
whether or not he can be accepted by his peers.
The deliberations have addressed various topics such as
whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to
home educate their
children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their
children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of
home -
educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in
home - based education with their
children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).
Some of the factors that are considered are: the length of your marriage; your age; occupation; amount and sources of your income; your ability to find a job; the contribution made by one of you to help
educate or help develop the career of the other one;
whether you or your spouse interrupted your career to stay at
home to take care of your
children, etc..
Where a
child or young person being
educated out of the local authority's area is brought to the local authority's attention as potentially having SEN, the
home local authority (where the
child normally lives) should decide
whether to assess the
child or young person and decide
whether an EHC plan is required.
[I must point out that it should be a «seemingly obvious proposition» that
children do best in one stable, permanent, stress - free and financially secure
child - centered
home, with one (or two) authoritative, loving parents (married or not), preferably well -
educated and well - adjusted, whose focus is on selflessly and cooperatively contributing to and optimizing the
child's environment and opportunies — and that it is irrelevant, except to the extent on a case - by - case basis that this indirectly impacts those real factors that affect
child wellbeing,
whether the parental captain at the helm of this ship consists of one or two parents, biological parents, or even heterosexual parents.
Local authorities do not have a duty under section 22 of the
Children and Families Act 2014 to assess every home educated child to see whether or not they have SEN.. The high needs block of the Dedicated Schools Grant is intended to fund provision for all relevant children and young people in the authority's area, including home educated c
Children and Families Act 2014 to assess every
home educated child to see
whether or not they have SEN.. The high needs block of the Dedicated Schools Grant is intended to fund provision for all relevant
children and young people in the authority's area, including home educated c
children and young people in the authority's area, including
home educated childrenchildren.