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Good to hear a first hand account. All of my mates kids are much younger.
This is why we're thinking about just a year and trying to choose a time when a) it won't impact the run up to the secondary education system here, and b) we are capable of teaching everything.
If we can do it, we would also be in the extremely fortunate position of splitting the work between two parents, not to mention my OH being exceptionally strong at maths and me being ok on the arts.
The only concern would be how well they reintegrate back into mainstream education.
hugo7-
My comments were probably misleading, she isn't full time home schooled, just I have picked it up since Covid so only been doing it a couple of months as her school haven't been great and I have been wfh, they basically set some tasks online each week and that's it teach yourself and answer a quiz which doesn't work for her as she has missed large chunks of Y7 and 8 so a lot of the work makes no sense to her. So I have had to fill those gaps, I hope to keep it going through the summer holidays a few hours a day and get her back to where she needs to be, with solid foundations that she is currently missing.
greentricky
Agree with these, my Y9 daughter has needs that mainstream struggle to meet so she doesn't thrive there. Educationally she has really enjoyed me teaching her as she feels she is learning much faster and things making more sense ( not surprising given the teacher has to deal with 30 kids at a time rather than me dealing with 1.) However she is really missing friends (guess this is where clubs come in and it is really time consuming as I have to teach myself the subject first to then be able to teach her. I actually find it interesting and realise how much interesting stuff they taught us that I didn't appreciate at the time but yeh, trying to balance that with work is super time consuming, I am far from an idiot but I haven't had to think about how mitochondria work or the underlying themes in Romeo and Juliet for twenty years so takes some revising. I have had had to neglect some subjects as I just don't have the time to do this around work and know she won't be taking them for GCSE but it is a loss to her general knowledge.