Its mostly to do with my daughter who has trouble with phonics that they insist on teaching in schools these days,
she now spells EVERYTHING phonetically, she also has regular hospital appointments, which means her missing classes she really cant afford to be missing, if we can get her to a good standard then we have no problem with her going to secondary school when the time comes,
Without knowing more about your situation I would suggest that your problems are not anything that can't be overcome with some 'additional' home teaching to supplement the traditional school education. Pulling her out of the school system completely seems a bit drastic. Have you actually discussed these problems with the school? If your daughter has some recurring health issues that mean she is missing extended periods of schooling the school should be able to provide some work to keep you going while in the doctors waiting room or hospital bed.
Your admittedly brief description of your situation does make it sound like you may be over reacting a bit and what is required is actually some additional parental tutoring to improve what is being done at school.
An important point I would like to make is that educating your child yourself doesn't have to be done in a formal lesson, teacher/pupil format. My wife and I have always taught our two boys continuously during our day to day lives. Just simple day to day opportunities that help them far more than you can possibly realise.
Just as an example of what I mean, consider these examples....
- As we are driving along the road, "Boys, I've just seen a great word on a billboard. Who can spell xxxxxxx and tell me what it means?"
- Please help me work out how many rolls of wallpaper we need to decorate this wall.
- I have a £10 note. once I have paid for the swimming will we have enough left for the locker and a packet of crisps each?
- When watching a nature program, "Do you know what it means when they say an animal doesn't have any natural predators?"
We do this continuously, all day, everyday. It just makes them think about things in more depth than they might otherwise and, without them realising, forces them to use what they have learned in school in real world situations. This works!
I'm not bragging but my two boys are amongst the highest achievers in their classes.
I won't say it is easy or hard, we just do what we can (I'm sure we could do more if we were really pushy parents!). We have had issues with some parts of the schools performance although overall consider it an above average school. We have made extra efforts to correct or make up for any of the schools weaknesses.
Personally I would be very, very cautious about pulling a child out of a mainstream education environment unless there were clear and irrefutable benefits from doing so!
