My teenager hates school and won't go....

It doesn't matter why your teen doesn't like going to school, the more you insist that they do it, the more they will rebel.  The school day takes up the majority of their day, but the useful learning time within that day is around 3 hours, and if they don't get along socially with their classmates, the day can become very tedious.  The structure of the day is much like a prison with rules and time allocations, and the pressure to conform is too much for some teens as they are struggling to develop their identity and consider their future. 

We work with lots of teens in this situation.  When they start with us they are often lost in terms of what they want their future to be, lack hope because they feel they don't fit into society, and have low confidence because they have 'failed' to make it to the end of the process (school) like any 'normal' kid does.  And most likely, they will feel like they've let you (their parents) down.

These teens are best working with us in a 'taught' capacity, where our teachers support the teenager in their studies as we have a lot of experience of working with these kids, and their relationship with you (their parents) is likely to be strained as you are both likely to be stressed by where they are at.  You can opt to homeschool them yourselves, but by the time they've hit this point, the chances are you're arguing about school, and their willingness to learn from you will be compromised.

Options for these kids: 

1. If you are in South Australia, we have a cohort with a public school for years 7-9 but it is limited in size, and a cohort with Open Access College for years 10-12.  Ideally we enrol your child into one of these cohorts so our costs are paid for by the school as publically funded education, and your child is still enrolled in the school system.

2.  If these cohorts are full, or you and/or your child wishes to stay enrolled at their current school (perhaps for a sport or some other reason), we can partner with that school as a FLO provider.  However, the school needs to agree to do this and pay for our service, and this is not guaranteed as they are not obligated to do so.  We have a good relationship with a lot of schools, so talk to us if this the option you want to pursue.

3.  If neither of these options work for you, we can enrol you in our Complete package which is effectively our 'private school' option, but you do have to pay the fees for this yourselves.  

NOTE:  We teach to SACE and encourage students to complete their 50 credits of SACE compulsories regardless of what they want to do because they then have these in the bank.  It doesn't matter if they stop there, they can add future VET certificates, etc to their SACE record to complete their 200 credits, but if they don't have the 50 credits of compulsory subjects, they cannot get their SACE.  If you are outside of South Australia or the Northern Territory, we can look at resulting for a Record of School Achievement, and/or a VET qualification through our RTO, or you can pay to privately enrol and result for SACE.