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By: Homeschooling for Safety Reasons | Mama of Letters

Homeschooling for Safety Reasons | Mama of Letters — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:31:11 +0000

[...] I read about a family whose mother pulled her children out of school and told a homeschooling friend……she knew exactly what she was going to do. Well, the children were back in school before the year was out. Apparently she was determined that her kids would learn A, B and C by a certain time, much like they were supposed to learn it in school. [...]

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:23:46 +0000

This made me so sad. How can they have fallen behind living their own lives? Why focus on external criteria? We homeschool in that my sons are learning at home. Since they are each learning and working at their own pace, how could they possibly fall behind themselves? I am their learning facilitator. I help them find out how to find out what they want to know, so that some day, when they are all big and I’m not around, they will know how to find out what they need. But, I’m not playing teacher. I was a substitute teacher in schools and loved it. I met 30 great new kids every day. Then I moved to north Idaho and the quality of teaching was very different from southern California. I went from being inspired by dedicated educators to thinking “wow, these people wanted a job to get summers off.” So, years before even marrying, I knew that living here meant figuring out an alternative to the public schools. Now, I hang out with 2 great kids every day – mine! The schools can’t have them.

By: Katey

Katey — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:10:59 +0000

School at home doesn’t work. “They” say for every month the kids spent in public school you need to spend a month “de-schooling.”
As for alone time….meh….I’d rather be in their lives. They aren’t going to be around forever.

By: Jamie Lynn Morgan

Jamie Lynn Morgan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:04:51 +0000

I think that the reason some people choose to homeschool and then quit is they are trying to teach like the child(ren) is/are still in school.

What is the benchmark of how a “child is falling behind”. Why would you hold yourself to a standard of education that is consistently falling behind? The reason you choose to homeschool your children is to protect them from negative influences and make their education a more productive endeavor. That can only be done by being flexible and using every opportunity as a learning experience. Your childs education does not have to come solely via text books and school type materials.

Ultimately, whether you place your child in public school, private school, or you choose to homeschool their education is YOUR responsibility.

By: nic

nic — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:40:12 +0000

That is the reason we chose private school. We’re not impressed with the quality of the quality of public ed in Cd’A, and we do not have the stamina/patience/energy for homeschooling. But we do have the time and will to volunteer at our kids’ school and chaperone field trips.