Autonomous HE

Who else is following an autonomous path with their home ed child at the moment?

It has been the only sensible way for us, but I am getting a bit fed up with skirting round the issue when I talk with relatives and friends. I do my best to portray a life full of incident and interest, when I know it is actually a peaceful existence at home with lots of PS3 gaming punctuated by purposive converation. Bliss really. I bet I'll look back to these days with fondness.

Sarah

Hello sarah

We have been pretty much autonomous from the outset. I just let my son study almost what he wanted how he wanted rather than settled on formal study or teaching to a curriculum. He has no plans on gaining a string of GCSEs but he is studying A Level maths. You can read a bit about experiences and disappointments at school here.

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I agree with you that autonomous home educators need a thick skin when talking to certain relatives and friends. Even worse is when I'm out with my son and somebody questions "why isn't he at school?" or "shouldn't he be studying for his GCSEs?" rather than dabbling about video editing or whatever his interest is that day. I hope you look back to your days of HE with plenty of fondness. I wish I had started HE earlier.

We set out on the HE road after my son was expelled from secondary school. Initially I was wary of autonomous education because my plan was that my son would return to school and take GCSE exams. If he was autonomously educated then it is likely that he would have studied only what interested him and would have ignored everything else. An agreement was made that he spent at least one day a week studying school subjects that are not maths or science from standard school textbooks. I was generous and said he didn't have to study French.

My son returned to school in Y10 but left shortly afterwords. HE became largely autonomous until he started college.

Hi, I know what you mean my 11 year old has obsession with pc since he was 2 yrs old....but its not jsut games he plays he likes to make movies and gets his online friends to get involved .....it is hard explaining to family and people who havent a clue about Home Education.....he is alot happier and when i get a dx it might help although i dont expect we.ll be shouting it from the roof tops......unfortunately we cant educate everyone about Aspergers and Home Education........lindy

There will always be a residual population that does not understand, and is unwilling to understand, AS and HE. A significant portion of the engineering community appears to be part of this residual population.