Flexi-schooling in Edinburgh
Shhhh.... it's NOT a secret! Lets tell everyone! This article focuses on our experience at primary school, however the law gives the same rights to Secondary School pupils. For most parents, conversations in Edinburgh circles about primary school choices revolve around securing a place in "a good school": ensuring your home is in a "decent" catchment or debating your chances for an out of placement request. Beyond this, most of us give little thought to the curriculum the school will deliver, beyond cajoling our offspring to complete homework on time and endless testing of tricky words and the like. Yet, it is our pefect legal right to pick over the offering of our child's school and conclude that we (or someone else) could, at least in part, do better and to thus request part-time attendance or withdraw our child for certain subjects. For most of us, being so used to simply rocking up and complying with whatever the school offers, it is perhaps ...