Just a few questions on homeschooling.
I’m the mum who wrote in about my 12 year old son truanting with his mates and being disrespectful and rude in class.
We have had a talk with the headmaster about options for assisting him. At the moment it looks likely that he might end up going to school a couple of mornings per week, and gradually reintegrating into classes, until he is fully back in school.
I think this sounds great. Only problem is, my son is very behind in his reading and I don’t want him to get further behind in that and other lessons. He really struggles behaviourally when he’s struggling academically.
I’m thinking of temporarily homeschooling him during this transition period so he doesn’t get too far behind. Even if it’s just in reading, so he can use this time to catch up.
He certainly won’t be spending the whole time on PS4 and hanging with mates.
Would this be a good idea? Anyone know the requirements for homeschool in Victoria?
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If he is attending school part time you don’t need to apply for homeschool status, you can just teach him at home yourself.
It’s probably a great opportunity to contact a speech therapist in your area. Many run literacy programs for kids like your son.
You can ask the school to send home the school work for the week, so you and he can do some at home.
We went through this with my nephew a few years ago.
Homeschooling is a long process to apply for and your only apply if you didn’t plan to send your child back to school. You are given a very broad curriculum to follow and you have to make up the work.
I wouldn't apply for homeschooling because that would mean he is not enrolled at school anymore, you cant have him enrolled at both and you need the schools support and resources. Love that you want to get him better at reading and this is probably the core reason he is skipping school, they get embarrassed and just don't want attention brought to it so they muck up or dont even go. Put the subtitles on your TV and his one if he has one. Get books for reluctant older boys, these are books with few words but not babyish. Texting helps heaps with reading and spelling, when they're typing and having to choose from the spell check words it actually helps. I know a teenager who has improved heaps just from texting. Put words everywhere, on the toilet walls, his bedroom, bathroom wherever. You could put them up as signs or phrases.