When school is too scary
BevK January 19th, 2007
This will make your toenails curl. Mom finally brought an end to it, but it shows the level of indoctrination into “school think” that she had that it took so long.
As a teacher, Charlotte Morbey had always been sceptical about school phobia until her son threatened to jump from the window sill
Six months ago I de-registered my 13-year-old son from school. As a former teacher and head of year, home education had seemed a foolhardy thing to undertake. But as a parent, I had reached the end of the road with mainstream schooling.
I thought I knew about school phobia. In common with colleagues, I used the terms “school phobia” and “school refusal” interchangeably. I was sympathetic but sceptical. I felt it was probably exaggerated and pandered to by parents who colluded with difficult children for a quiet life.
