Fannie Collingwood: I'm in the UK.
Davina Shindler: I am not in the UK so I can not give you first hand experience. However I do know that the following website if most often recoomended by those in the UK who post here: http://www.education-otherwise.net/As for Jessica Goethe answer, please ignore the troll. Statistics and standardized test scores prove that homeschoolers are, in general, better educated than their public schooled peers. There are many false assumptions about how homeschooling works such as: only the very religious homeschool; the parents are the only ones teaching; the parent can't learn right along with the student; students can't learn something on their own...etc. There also seem to be the assumption that parents can't teach more than they know. If humans were incapable of learning beyond what their parents knew we would still be living in caves. Humans are curious by nature. It is the unnatural setting of public school that kills that natural! desire....Show more
Vida Miss: Are you sure you want to do that? Home schooling entails the danger of copying errors from those who homeschool you. If your parents are maths failures, you will turn into one as well. It deprives you of the opportunity to socialise among your peers, which may prove beneficial for your mental development. You will also fail to meet new folks and friends and become more lonesome than before. I would not resort to home schooling. After all, you want to start a professional career one of these days! Who will hire a person, who is homeschooled? Employers want proper graduates from proper schools with proper report cards and no do-it-youself blunderers....Show more
Clark Lachowski: You don't "talk" to anyone. Your mum (or dad) just needs to write to your current school and tell (tell, don't ask) them to remove your name from the school register. There's a template of the letter at http://www.education-otherwise.net/index.php?optio... t! hat your parents can copy and use. As soon as the school get t! he letter you're legally home educated (the UK name for homeschooling). If you want to know more about home education ("home schooling") in the UK take a look at:Education Otherwise - http://www.education-otherwise.netHome Ed Info - http://home-ed.infoDirect Gov. (the government's own website on what you need to do/don't need to do when you're home educated) at http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/parents/schoolslearnin...BTW you don't "get" home educated - there's nothing to get. You do home education. Once you leave school it is up to you and your parents to decide what you want to learn and how you want to learn it. Home educated kids don't have to follow the National Curriculum and don't have to do any formal or structured schoolwork (you can choose to, but you don't have to). You can go from joining one of the online schools or correspondence schools or buying GCSE courses to do at home from one of the various distance education companies; or you can make up your own study plan! s using free internet sites and library books etc; or you can go totally informal and "learn from life". It's up to you (and your folks). It all depends on what you want to get out of your education and what you want to do in the future.Oh, and Jessica has it wrong. It sounds like she's talking (wrongly) about the education system as it is in America, and theirs is a very different system to ours here in the UK. What she says does not apply here in the UK. Here a GCSE or an A Level is a GCSE or an A Level no matter if you got it in school, college or at home. No college, uni or employer worth working for cares a jot how you got your qualifications; they only care that you've got the qualifications they want! My brother even managed to get into Oxford University "despite" being home educated....Show more
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