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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 458602" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>This might be the bigger issue. Having difficult child in school will make the long-run easier... IF it can be done right. Homeschooling will make the short-run easier... but, then what? I'd be pouring everything I've got into making school work.</p><p></p><p>The smaller issue is using someone else's services. The whole "imposition" thing depends in part on how well you get along with the other child, and how well the kids get along. You might be able to trade some "field trip" services with the parent doing the teaching... take both kids once per week for "something" - to the zoo, for example. This provides the teacher with "prep time" (as well as a break!), and keeps you involved. Essentially, you become a team - but she does most of the classroom work. </p><p></p><p>But as far as going the home-school route?</p><p>If I did that here, we'd be locked in until graduation. Its too hard to keep them up where they need to be, and almost impossible to get services once they've been home-schooled.</p><p>I've only seen homeschooling work with "neurotypical" kids who fell behind due to medical issues (a kidney transplant kid who lost a year of school and wanted to homeschool so she could do 2 years at once and catch up with peers before highschool - this was done with the full support of the school system, but there were NO supports etc. necessary when she came back)... OR kids who were close to the end of their schooling and weren't going to finish if they stayed in the system. I don't know anyone who has had a difficult child, and homeschooled, AND transitioned back to regular school. But that's just my limited knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 458602, member: 11791"] This might be the bigger issue. Having difficult child in school will make the long-run easier... IF it can be done right. Homeschooling will make the short-run easier... but, then what? I'd be pouring everything I've got into making school work. The smaller issue is using someone else's services. The whole "imposition" thing depends in part on how well you get along with the other child, and how well the kids get along. You might be able to trade some "field trip" services with the parent doing the teaching... take both kids once per week for "something" - to the zoo, for example. This provides the teacher with "prep time" (as well as a break!), and keeps you involved. Essentially, you become a team - but she does most of the classroom work. But as far as going the home-school route? If I did that here, we'd be locked in until graduation. Its too hard to keep them up where they need to be, and almost impossible to get services once they've been home-schooled. I've only seen homeschooling work with "neurotypical" kids who fell behind due to medical issues (a kidney transplant kid who lost a year of school and wanted to homeschool so she could do 2 years at once and catch up with peers before highschool - this was done with the full support of the school system, but there were NO supports etc. necessary when she came back)... OR kids who were close to the end of their schooling and weren't going to finish if they stayed in the system. I don't know anyone who has had a difficult child, and homeschooled, AND transitioned back to regular school. But that's just my limited knowledge. [/QUOTE]
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