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hi ...@bigmailbox.net
Just read this item http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4808906.stm We have been considering the possibility of home educating DD for some time. It seems that this school is following the spirit of HE.
My only reservation is that by not following the standard curriculum and exam process, that the children's options will be limited. The education system (and potential employer) is geared towards grading and ***essing in terms of exam results.
I really do want to HE, but I can't help feeling that it will ultimately limit the choices available to DD.
Any opinions?
hi ...@bigmailbox.net
Apolgies - posted to wrong newsgroup.
Andy Burns usenet.nov2...@adslpipe.co.uk
A different kind of diy!
Joe j...@jretrading.com
You don't seriously think that will stop anyone, do you?
John Stumbles john.stumb...@ntlworld.com
So which ng did you intend to post to?
FWIW I know a few kids who've gone or are going to the Acorn and by all accounts it's brilliant. Our own kids are/were at the local Steiner School and amongst other parents etc it's regarded as practically a Steiner school in all but name (though there are differences of organisation e.g. Graham is the head and owner whereas Steiner schools are usually run as charitable businesses with a college of teachers and no head).
I gather a significant number of Acorn pupils are accepted at Oxbridge on reputation of the school despite not doing exams, so I wouldn't worry about their prospects.
From the HE POV there are always quite a few parents ar our school who would be HEing if the school weren't available, and some who move from HE to Steiner, and some vice versa.
chris French newspost-c-...@familyfrench.co.uk
>> h...@bigmailbox.net wrote: >>> Just read this item >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4808906.stm >>> We have been considering the possibility of home educating DD for some >>> time. It seems that this school is following the spirit of HE.
>> Apolgies - posted to wrong newsgroup.
uk.people.parents it would seem
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Chris French
hi ...@bigmailbox.net
uk.people.parents Thanks. It turns out that the school is located not far from us!
hi ...@bigmailbox.net
Really. That's interesting. What industry are you in? I know exams seem to have been devalued with the recent grade inflation phenomenon, but I wonder is it generally the case that employers are starting to disregard exam results. Would it be so bad if our child didn't have any conventional exam p***es? That's the question I'm wrestling with.
chris French newspost-c-...@familyfrench.co.uk
I don't think it is the general case, I suspect that smaller employers are easier going , and probably always have been, Larger organisations probably look for them more. If nothing else, it's an easy way to filter out people when you have lots of applicants.
Depends on her intended or potential future career. The are plenty of career routes where some GSCE's etc. are pretty much essential (not necessarily the 9-10 many kids leave with).
I certainly don't want to put our children in a position where they can't get the qualifications they might want/need. But there is no reason Home Education should do that. Plenty of them take GCSE,s either at home (often spread out over a number of years) or go to school for a couplle of years, or go to college for a year etc. some know what they want to do and follow other qualification paths.
But HE a child a 5 is not going to close down any of those paths in the future.
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Chris French
Owain owain47...@stirlingcity.coo.uk
I would no longer regard exams as being proof of much academically, but a clutch of p***es suggests the holder at least attended school fairly consistently, paid some attention in the lessons, and did some work.
One aspect of home education is the child missing out on the school experience and mixing with other children, but there are ways around that of course.
Owain
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