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Missy

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  1. NickP,  Hell I didn't take it lying down, its a long ongoing argument which now sits with our solicitor and the head of education, but either way currently its not got much done, although they talk a lot! :-(  I did rather assume that his attitude to her may well be general, he doesn't seem to understand why she cannot do it, and no amount of explaining to him, that she can do it, she just can't write it or, but go over it again seems to help.  But yes, that is pretty much the attitiude I expect to come up against, but as he's of an older generation I did wonder if maybe attitudes were changing.  You still find the older UK teachers less tollerant than younger ones, in my experience. We have family over there but they do not have children of school age, so we are proably aware of more pitfalls than some about coming over, but not about the education system.  My husband lived out there for several years with work previously but again without us.  We will pretty much have to rent for a while anyway, we have 2 properties to sell over here and a business, and until all sell, we cannot do what we would like, so we will be coming, still owning property in UK.  Which to honest, I am rather pleased about just incase my daughter and I don't like it, we have a option to come back.  Thats not being negative, just trying to be a bit practical.  :-)
  2. Thank you all for replying.    I did go back through the posts but most were early to mid  2000 time and I did wonder if things had changed, they certainly were not very positive.  Saying that I cannot say I have found England to be particually good at catering for dyslexia unless you spend half your life shouting for help.   Sounds to me as though home education may still be the way, and i've got the general impression that as long as you follow a course recognised in France you are unlikley to go far wrong.  Its quite difficult to get any kind of grip on the education system from the UK without speaking to somone already in it, to discover the pitfalls etc.  I am not convinced that she would leave school with much in the way of qualifications as her dyslexia was picked up too late (we'd been saying since she was 3 but it wasn't diagnosed until she was 11, by which time she couldn't read or write, she can now but thats sheer determination on our/her part) and very little was/is being done, so I am not sure a move to France has any major disadvantage for her in that respect.    Thank you all for helping I do appreciate it.
  3. Hello, I'm new to the forum so apologies if this has been covered before.     We are looking to move to France this year, however our daughter (13) is dyslexic, her French is non existant as she had a French teacher at her school who was French and he refused to teach her as she struggled and he couldn't/wouldn't spend the extra time helping her. The school pandered to his tantrum and took her out of French lessons altogether.   Her other subjects are fine provided she uses a laptop, her reading and writing are ok but possibly not what you'd expect for her age.  This does not however mean she is stupid, she's far from it.  It seems to me from what I can tell on forums etc that the system in France is possibly not going to be that helpful to her, she will pick up speaking very quickly (she's good at that) if she hears them, so I've no concern about her actually learning to communicate.   I understand you can get English Speaking schools, and as our area is not set yet, we could aim to be close to one.  Would that be better or am I looking at homeschool?  If we homeschool, which is no problem, we'll get get a distance learning course to keep me/her on the right path.  What happens when they assess her?  Can she use a laptop etc and provide her work to show what she has done, or is it all by test (which she'll fail miserably)?  Sorry for all the questions but any advice would be helpful.  Thanks in advance.
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