I get you with hating school.
Thing is, it doesn't mean your kids will hate school.
I would always look into alternatives to that like going to a different school, sorting out whatever issues are going on etc.
In addition to the concerns already raised I would worry what lesson it would teach my kid of not liking it somewhere/not liking doing something was enough of a reason for me to not make them do it.
I would consider home schooling as a last resort.
Maybe that's because I'm German though and I'm pretty sure it's illegal here.
Schools have gotten better at dealing with such cases I think and there is more support available for a kid. I have a cousin who was diagnosed with "School Phobia" [quotation marks as I am not sure of the official term]. He had a short stint of intensive inpatient treatment, than a phased return to school that started with a staff member from the program sitting in the class room with him, then just seeing him during breaks and so on.
I imagine that in the meantime some work was done with his classmates about his issues and how not to act etc.
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