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you always known you wanted to homeschool? Or were you responding
to a crisis in your child's schooling? What made you take the
plunge? My oldest son went to public school from K through 3rd grade. He was in a good school, he had great teachers, he did well, and he was even in the gifted program, so it wasn't that I thought he wasn't being stimulated enough or that his school was bad. My daughter went to kindergarten the year he was in 3rd grade. She had a nice teacher and she did well, so what was it that made me homeschool them? It wasn't any one thing. It was more like a growing conviction. My husband has always favored hs, but I was so opposed to it inititally that he didn't push it. But I gradually came to realize it was what I wanted to do. My daughter seems to need alot of sleep, and she was sick alot in kindergarten. Not horribly ill, just run down and minor sicknesses throughout the year. She was tired all the time. She fell asleep in the clasroom after lunch. Not exactly the most righteous honorable reason to homeschool, but it was one factor. Also I spent alot of time in the school volunteering, and I could see how little they were able to get done. They spent all day lining up and going to the bathroom and lining back up, etc. So I realized that homeschooling would be more efficient. Because of their ineffectual school day Spenser came home with homework every night. I despise homework. I think it is evil 
So in addition to them being gone 7 hours a day, they had to come home
and spend another hour on 2 doing what they should have been doing all
day. I am not knocking the teachers, i think they do great with
what they have to work with. I just couldn't stand them being
gone all the time. I realized that I didn't have time to teach
them what I wanted them to know because they were always at school.I also thought that their history was biased. I won't elaborate because it won't come out right, but I didn't feel like they were covering what I thought they should be covering. We had not yet run across evolution in their science texts, but I knew it was coming. And I knew it wouldn't be taught as a theory... All of these little things added up in my in mind to make me want to give it a try. The kids were (surprisingly) open to it. And we have been doing it for 2 years now. We still have times when one or all of us considers going back to ps. But I have to say I think we are in it for the long haul. |
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