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   Sonia from Wiltshire says:

   Feb 22, 07:19

   If you are going to comment on home educating then please bother to check you facts first. Most HEed kids get more socilaisation than school kids as they are free to meet how they like when they like, there are regular meetings all over the country that children go to so they have just as many friends if not more than most school kids.
   They are under less stress to meet other peoples standards so they are happier and healthier so by defualt they learn more.
   As adults we would never stay in the same place every day mixing with people we do not want to mix with unless you choice to why do we have the right to force our children to do it.
   I know many school kids who have no friends and spend every day being bullied by kids and teachers why as a parent would you allow that to happen when you know you can put a stop to it?
   I sent my oldest two to school for 5 years and it was the biggest mistake I ever made now they are HEed they are happy, learning more and making a new and wider varitiy of friends.

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   Roi from nth Wales says:

   Feb 22, 02:18

   my daughters experience of interacting with her peers involved never moving from the office window and breaks and lunch because she was safe there. staying behind after class to speak to the teacher because she was safe or running ahead of the rest to get to the next class to talk to the teacher because she was safe.
   she had the childline number doodled everywhere. fortunately we realised something was wrong and got her out.
   now she learns at home and is safe and not suicidal anymore . could it be that the stats of child suicides would go down if more parents spotted the signs and schooled at home

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   Julie from West Midlands says:

   Feb 22, 01:14

   In reply to Sarah the primary school teachers.
   It is in my experience the Parents who detect that their children have learning difficulties and the school fob off the parents for months or even years before they do anything about it.
   Home schooling is inspected on a yearly basis already, and when the schools and the LA can guarantee the Welfare of children in school then we homeschoolers will submit to the same regulations.
   It seems that 1 incident of a child being killed by a Home Schooling foster parent and we are all tarred with the psychopathic brush. How many schooled children were killed last year by their carers or parents.

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   Julie from West midlands says:

   Feb 22, 01:06

   I took my son out of school after he was physically beaten and verbally abused.
   once he was out I found out that after 5 years of school he did NOT know his 2 times tables.
   Socialisation at school meant sticking with your class mates of your own sex and of the same social level. The boys took over the playground whilst the girls hovvered around the edges.
   Locking our children away for 8 hours a day under the despotic rule of 1 adult (primary school) and having to put your hand up to ask to go to the toilet is cruel it also does nothing to teach you about life outside school. When you are in school you live and learn by school rules, these are not the rules of the real world. They are the rules of visious socially underdeveloped yobs who rule the playground by fear.
   Have you read the statistics 1 out of 6 children leave British schools ILLITERATE. Home schoolers attain degree's.

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   Tracy from Kent says:

   Feb 22, 01:01

   I home educate my two for 4 years now, they have loads of friends who we meet regularly, we go on lots of educational trips with our support group, we all get fantastic support.
   My kids had terrible time in school, they did not learn anything and were badly bullied, now they are confident, intelligent children who are caring and hardworking and popular young people.
   Its not for everyone, but it works well for us as does it for thousands of other families.

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