A few months ago we decided to teach some of our children at home. The trigger was that one of our boys was due to go over to secondary school and we felt that he wasn't ready for it. Paranoid parents, you might ask? Well perhaps but in our defence I would say that we have put five of our children through the school system so far and have one more still going through it. The last three...well for the last three of them we thought something different was in order.
It really wasn't a decision to be taken lightly and as we have moved further into it, I really cannot emphasise that point enough.
There were some mitigating circumstances however. One of our boys was due to start secondary school in September 2011 and we felt that he really wasn't ready. I should add that both he and his younger brother had already been subject to considerable levels of support in their first school and both were ( and still are ) under review by speach therapists. I'll talk more about their own particular circumstances in another blog as there is a fair bit to it.
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