Kel is 7 and we started homeschooling this week. As soon as his ex-teacher heard of this, she left me a message how "heartbroken" she was and how Kelsey will be left behind. She made her position really strongly that almost left me in tears. The day after, Portland Tribune (our weekly free paper) wrote about Homeschooling parents in Portland. I am feeling a bit more relieved now. What are your experiences with school administrators or teachers? How did they react to homeschooling? I am glad to be here! -Angie
Welcome, Angie. I am Leslie and am hs my 2 kids. We are in our 2nd year and loving it. When I pulled my kids out of school, I actually never had anyone SAY negative things about it, but some of the teachers did ACT in a way that let me know they didn't approve or maybe were "concerned". I had been warned that this might happen, so it didn't bother me. My experiences since then have all been ok. Thankfully! Hope you enjoy the board. There are alot of great gals here.
Hi Angie, Congrats on deciding to home school. I have been homeschooling for a couple of months, so I am new to this but this is a wonderful place to receive advice and feel welcomed. When I pulled Emma (7 yr. old) out to home school, I really didn't have that much of a reaction. I did find out her speech therapist had been home school, which I take her back weekly for testing. The speech teacher stated she is doing much better at home than she did at school, her guess some pressure was taken off Emma. Her former teacher gives me weekly worksheets for her. I have my own curriculum, but I know she is trying to help. I read your post with you newspaper and found it interesting. It's amazing how educators think they could do a better job, my experience ( I have four children altogether) the schools are so busy testing and testing preparedness that kids are getting left behind. Well good luck and have a blessed night. Kellie:angel:
Hi Angie, We're happy you're here too!!! WELCOME! I teach my 3: ds15, ds13 and dd9. We've been homeschooling for 9 years and LOVE it! My ds15 went to K and 1st in a local Christian school. It was a decent school, but things happened and I knew I couldn't be ds back there cuz he'd have the same teacher. DS finished 1st grade, then we started homeschooling, and just didn't send him back to the school. There were little comments, which we still get sometimes, but no major problems with the transition. We still go to programs and work bees and stuff for that school to help support it. We'll get comments like, "If all the people that homeschooled would send their kids here, the school would be full and do better financially!" What about the people who send their kids to public school---there are more of them than homeschoolers, but for some reason it's OUR problem that the school isn't in as good shape financially! You just have to let stuff roll off your back. Some comments have been hurtful, and untrue, and I'm not sure why Chritian people would do or say those kinds of things, but I KNOW we were led to homeschool, and I plan to do that as long as I can! I try to explain homeschooling to some that may ask questions, but most are not really interested. Anyway, it gets easier as time goes by, and you get to be with your child and see him grow and learn! It's great!
I agree with Deena, I get a lot of bad things said about hs mostly from family. But, I am at the point I don't even listen to them. I let the things they say roll off my back. I will be truthful with you it was hard at the beginning but with alot of support from the wonderful ladies here I have made my 5th year hs my dd's whom are 14 and 11. Hang in there, come here alot and ask alot of question. Once again welcome and hope you enjoy this site as much as I do.
