My oldest Senior this year like to HS "as far as school goes." He really struggled in PS and Private School (he went until he was in 9th grade.) He was the "Class clown in order to make up for what he was lacking." So not only did he not learn a whole lot, he spent a lot of time in trouble. Once we start HSing he became was/is a different young man. My 7th gr. doesn't like HSing. I don't let them get away with much and he is lazy and thinks he could get away with much more in ps. My 4.5yo, knows nothing but of being at home!!!! I thank the Lord for that and so does he, daily.
Yes, my boys love being homeschooled. The declare it proudly to anyone who asks and the one time I was frustrated beyond all sense I in a moment of weakness todl them "forget it, I'm taking you to school on Monday and enrolling your behinds" They immediately jumped to doing work and said "Sorry, mama we'll behave please don't send us to school!" I felt badly and hugged them and told them I was sorry and I wouldn't send them to school.
Well PS is not an option as far as I'm concerned either. It's just NOT a good fit for him. He almost failed PS K cause he didn't the required amount of sight words! (And he has since forgotten most of those sight words, so it shows how much he actually LEARNED-which wasn't much!) He's just not ready to read right now. And I'm totally okay with that, I know PS would not and I would have a stressed out little 6 year old again if he was still in PS. He's so much happier now, and learning so much more, just not how to read! But he can focus on science which is his first love LOL and PS science at his grade level is just not enough for him. He also likes being close to mama or daddy. After a year of PS for PreK he still flipped out about having to leave us for K! A couple of times I had to take his allergy meds to school and if he saw me, he'd start pitching a fit crying to come home. It broke my heart! So glad my hubby finally came around to homeschooling! I was worried about him missing friends though, as he is a very social child. But he likes adults to come over to our house just as much as kids. And hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't stop by our house, family, friend or neighbor. And we're doing co-op classes this semester, I'm not sure if we'll do them next semester or not. I kinda don't want to, but kinda do....I guess we'll just wait and see...both kids love going, but I don't like the having to be somewhere at a certain day and time each week and being told what lesson to do, etc....If I can get my oldest in zoology 2, and an art class and PE-I probably will so it's not too....academically challenging for him....but other than that, we probably won't unless he begs, then I might, LOL I just don't know!
I know so many boys who homeschooled and didn't read until 8 or 9 or so. They are all voracious readers now, but just weren't ready at 6. They all were science fanatics too and read nonfiction before they got into fiction. Well, except for Calvin and Hobbes fiction, LOL. My daughter loved homeschooling within about 3 weeks of starting at age 5 1/2. She went to high school half-time last year and now she loves homeschooling even more. LOL The academics were easy, but it was just too repetitious and frustrating to put up with if you don't have to!
My dd (10,almost 11) went to K in ps & charter. My ds (7) has never set foot in ps. Neither want to either. My dd tells her brother he doesn't want to go there. We started hs dd in 1st grade after 2 different schools. Halfway into our 1st year we drove by her old charter school. I pointed it out & she said "Those are the days that haunt me". Seriously?? So, no, they don't desire to try it or go back!
My children like it but then again they don't know anything else. For them it is just a fact of life although when the sun came out on the first day of public school (after a month of rain) and we went camping last week instead of them having to sit in a classroom they were very happy with it.
It's my hope that he will one day LOVE to read as I do, which is one reason I hated PS so much, they were forcing the issue and all I could see that doing was making him hate reading and learning for that matter. It's so nice to have his love of learning return! I have my little boy back now!
My kids could go either way. They like being homeschooled - but when I asked them if they were comfortable going back to PS this year - they both are. My son is a little more nervous because it's a huge change (middle school and I pulled him still in elementary)... but if I pulled him again he would be ok with it. Alexis is the same way - but right now I honestly think she's looking at it as time away from the 3 year old (we've only had her over the summer - so it's been constant and there haven't been many breaks - the 3 year old is VERY active!)
My 17 year old would go back in a heartbeat and would be eaten alive by the system. My 12 year old says she does not want to go back. She sees how mean the girls are to each other and wants no part of it.
The more I think about it the more I don't want my kids to return to the public system. Sloan may I just say your daughter is smart to stay away from mean girls. I was tormented by one at her age and it has severely effected my self esteem. Here it is years later and I still recall her words like it was yesterday. More over boys at that age are a nightmare. I went to a small PS and the remarks were shocking and appalling. Steer clear and keep her on the straight and narrow!
my oldest loved it some years hated it other years , then we prayed and God answered for him to go out for high school. Considering I had dd advancing too fast for me and ds#2 at home still I was okay with it but wish he had not picked up stuff he did from the schools. He went to only private schools btw so he should have had less garbage to be taught but I guess I paid good money for a bad attitude hahah!< Then he graduated and went to college and realized that we did good home schooling him! He learned to study for himself and a love of learning. He thanked me for that because he realised he learned more home schooling than he did when out. Dd wanted to home school all the way through because of her own way of learning, she was advance advance on her own, have an off day when she wanted kind of kid. She enjoyed it, but now that she has graduated she says " you know mom, you taught us well but going to public school would not have killed us, we just would not have learned as much.." she is glad also that we home schooled her and really did not care if she went out last year or not but since she would be doing college this year we chose to send her out to get a feel for bigger group learning. her school was run like home school and you could do self paced work too so that was a plus. ds 13 is fine with home school, he has had love it years and days that he gets to play ps2 during class hey, thats something he would not get to do at outside schools. He likes the fact you can keep on learning on a subject if you like it and skip on to the next thing if you already know whats in the book ... but he too asked when he gets to go out to school. I may send him to our church school for a lot of reasons.. his friends from church go there, the kids pastor is the teacher, he would still work self paced , and I could get stuff done at the church while he was in class. As it is now I am letting him take band with the school so he has a group class there too. okay that was probably more than you wanted to know but we are happy home schoolers, and for the most part they all are glad we chose to school them at home.
Yes and no. My son likes that he is not in public/private school. He went through 6th grade. He doesn't like really much of anything that looks, sounds, feels, or smells like school. He doesn't like textbooks. He doesn't like doing anything that involves writing (even answering short questions). So we are trying to find a happy medium. I am trying to become a relaxed, non-perfectionistic, homeschooler. HELP!! Just kidding, I am getting more relaxed, just not exactly where I want to be.
My oldest was looking out the window this morning and he said, "Well, off go the neighbors for their first day of school." I said, "Oh, the only thing I miss now that we HS, is the first day of going to school." He quickly said, "I don't miss ANYTHING about going to school." That made me happy.
My graduated child had a tough time in homeschool during high school years. She went to a private christian school k-2 and then I pulled her to hs. So those years to her were idyllic and could do no wrong in her mind. Some years, she enjoyed, some she hated. High school was difficult at times because she was determined to do things the way they do them in 'real school' with textbooks but she was terrible learning that way. I'm sure I screwed up her life for good. lol She is in college now and so far doing well, I just worry I could have done better. My 6th grader has never known anything different. When I start making her sit for hours with textbooks she mentions hating school. When I'm more free range and we learn by reading, researching and having more experiments and fun, she loves it. In fact today she said she loved being homeschooled, especially so she could study egypt and egyptian gods when she wanted to. I asked for that in writing! lol
Artsy my kids were the other way around because they saw text books as 'realschool' go figure, I was trying to step out of that with my workbooks lol! Now with child three his style is more eclectic than the others. He gets pieces and bits and more choice... let me throw this out there for you all---- is there a difference between liking to home school and wanting to go out to school? I think kids would like the best of both worlds, the play time with the neighbor kids and yet the relief of doing school in thier pjs some days! ? Just a thought I had right now... what do you think in regards tothis thread?
You may want to ask around, but here the county will pay for homeschoolers to do dual enrollment as well. I would talk to your DOE or other homeschoolers with high school kids, if she really wants to take advantage of it.
