Homeschool Anyone??

[davidmu39]

This is awesome! My wife and I just started talking about this over the weekend, and she's looking into it deeply right now. I'd also appreciate everyone's input and suggestions for what you've used and what worked well and also what didn't please. Thanks OP for the thread!

PM me your contact information and I'll get my wife in touch with yours. It's well worth the effort and there is a lot of support out there.

 

[CCW]

LOL, not if my life depended on it!

This doesn't surprise me considering your view on a good bit of things.

 

[davidmu39]

CCW,
Thanks for sharing that. HS'ing is a topic my wife and I constantly talk about and have yet to commit (but we have time, my kids are 1 and 2). We want our children far away from the the indoctrination from our government.

I think the biggest hurdle right now is financially. We are looking at options and we will see what that brings.

We had to make tough financial choices but they were well worth it in the long run.

 

[davidmu39]

My wife is already a stay-at-home mom for our 4 kids anyway, and my oldest is 6 and in first grade. The next just turned 6 but is in Kindergarten, and then I have a 20 month old and a 4 month old. There's obviously a ton we need to look at, but you can't really put a price tag on education unless it just doesn't fit within your budget. Think of it this way, you're prepping your kids for a lifetime of success rather than letting the public school system teach them day in and day out, simply to be able to pass a standardized "test" that says whether they can advance to the next grade or not! It didn't used to be that way, but with budget cuts and financial difficulties for all public schools, they have to do everything they can to make sure your kid passes that test so the school continues to be funded by our tax dollars.

Excellent points. It was a very rewarding choice for us. My wife started out as a stay at home mom also and we progressed from there into homeschooling.

 

[meastt]

To the members here that currently HS, are all of you happy with the choice?

 

[CCW]

To the members here that currently HS, are all of you happy with the choice?

100%. Never look back. On a large average, the only ones who condemn HS have never participated in it.

 

[Laxguy59]

My mom used to do a summer homeschool with me and my sister through elementary school, I swear I learned more in less time and had twice as much fun doing it. At some point she probably would have maxed out her expertise, but I'm not sure those teaching highschool have all that much expertise as is. I enjoyed public school, but it was a joke and I think you can probably get your kids socialized better in other activities like sports, boyscouts, and being around mature adults. My views have changed on it after doing legislative research into teachers pay and schools budgets, it absolutely a scam.

 

[davidmu39]

To the members here that currently HS, are all of you happy with the choice?

Absolutely the best choice we could have made. The kids love "doing school" and we can do it at their pace. Our "classroom" is wherever we are.

 

[MissesC]

Learning at the fastest possible pace is the only viable way to avoid the bottom sludge (70%). One on one tutoring beats any type of "schooling" hands down. However, kids are remarkably ingenious, and should be taught at whatever level they are capable of learning. For example, I teach piano, guitar, and commercial music construction (that's a fancy way of saying, "I make you listen."). If a child is sent to me, I teach them these concepts, modes, and apparatus, not by indoctrinating them, but, rather, by teaching them the concepts of the points of indoctrination, and the scientific reasoning behind why it works on the human psyche. (trust me, kids get it!)

 

[edzackley]

To the members here that currently HS, are all of you happy with the choice?

100%. No regrets at all. There was never any other choice for my wife and I.