http://school.familyeducation.com/home-schooling/teen/37519.html http://www.hslda.org/highschool/docs/TenReasonsHTHS.asp Ten reasons to HS through High School http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/education/satisfied-learner.html How families HS their teens http://www.homeschoolcentral.com/high.htm http://www.homeschoolzone.com/hsz/cohen1.htm Ten reasons to HS through HS. Information + more.
I am printing out a couple of these and forwarding others to my hs friends. Thank you. We need that encouragement. High school is only 2 yrs. away for us and closing in FAST!!
Maybe we need a stickied thread for the ladies here who are doing high school. They can post ideas and things that have worked (and things that haven't), so those of us coming along after don't run away in fear!!
I dont know I think I still want to run away in fear! haha! No but seriously! Thanks for posting the links the articles and ideas attached in other links were cool! I looked at Stanford University in a new light! I actually see it as apossiblity now where as before I figured forget it, but it has a lot to offer! Even Highschool classes! online! I am actualy mixed wiht looking forward to teaching my dd as apposed to just letting her do her life paks, which are set up for independant study at that age. I am eager and afraid to do it wrong. She is a brighter child and will catch me if I do anything wrong Lol. All her life she has corrected my grammar, and I kid you not! It is scary, but I also want to make school come alive. I am looking at side helps for Algerbra so she can 'get it' and litterally get through it because Algerbra for her way of thinking is horrible and illogical. She can't wait to get to geometry, so I have already started looking to the Video text people for that one! her insentive to get through Alg1 is Geometry is waiting! I will be checking back n this thread, I wanna know!
I hear you!!! I have one of those too; dd #2. When she was in private school, she was correcting the teachers. We'll bear this together TM
TM --Let's start a petition to plead for those who are hs'ing high schoolers to start a thread with their nuggets of wisdom. Now, who has high schoolers????? Deena? Prairie Home? Who else? petition name: Homeschool Spot Members Seeking High School Educating Wisdom or HSMSHSW (that certainly isn't catchy--lol--someone needs to come up with something clever) I'm signing first momothem
I had a highschooler last year & I will have one next year but algerbra , physics & chemistry are not compulsory in the last few grade of high school here ~ & just as well. Math & science are my weak areas & dd is all about music & art. That we can manage.
Having gone through Highschool at home, I can say it was a mistake. There's too much you miss by now being in school.
Euph, my kids are doing a little of both. My oldest feels like you do, my second child delights in homeschool but wants to be on a team, she likes sports and is always involved in dramas and such at church and in our community so that may be why. my oldest really did not choose to do sports or outside activities unless he was asked to be the lead in the drama , he is a great actor, but that also is why he likes to be out at school. He enjoys clowning around haha! *** wanted to make that clearer he told me he enjoyed being taught at home but likes the inbetween class time he gets to hang with his friends.
I know several High Schooled Homeschoolers and they are loving it!!! In fact I also know several that go to Private school and I hear all the horror stories there! Such a shame.
When I worked at that school last fall there were kids in the class that were ( seniors even) telling me they wished thier parents had homeschool them. They knew the troubles of the world and wished they had not had to get into it. they would rather have been able to do the school work when they wanted and learn what they wanted some kids have even asked me if I could home school them and one even asked me how to make it leagle so I could! lol! T
My biggest "grief" with the high school years of our younger children are that they're almost over! Only two more years with these "little pieces of heaven," who aren't little any more. I don't know how we'll function without them! Sonny has his own car business and Daughter has her heart set on a Bible college. I don't know if this makes sense: I'm happy that I'm so sad that their high school years are almost over. It means that high school can be great!
Yes, you do miss a lot. I'm not sure what you think you missed, however, that may have damaged you for life by not having it. If you think you missed opportunities to develop your self-esteem instead of your commitment to serving others, you are right. Public schools are known to give high marks, ribbons, and medals for mediocre (as well as excellent) work in order to protect fragile egos. If you think you missed opportunities to "enjoy" the opposite sex instead of keeping your emotions pure until you find your life mate, you are right. Public schools are invitations to lust. If you think your body missed athletic workouts instead of working hard at physical labor, you are right. Public school sports can damage ankles and knees for life. If you think you missed out on friendships, you may be right. You may not be. But you have the rest of your life to be a friend to people you'll meet. Life-long friends don't have to even be your exact age. If you think you missed enrichment or job prep that you can never search out on your own, then I think that you may lack initiative to "knock on doors" of opportunity. And if you think that you're deprived academically by not being in the public school, then you don't know what I do about the academics in many public schools. If you know how to read, then you have no excuse for not educating yourself even yet, regardless of what curriculum you've been exposed to. George Washington Carver and Abe Lincoln could have complained about the dirth of materials and educational opportunities available to them, but the sparsity of their childhoods spurred them on to greater accomplishments than drowning in "opportunities" does for most modern students. This post may be entirely missing your situation. I'm just guessing at a lot of "ifs" and trying to see where you're coming from. There are no doubt things I didn't understand about your position, so I'd like to hear just what it was that you feel you were deprived of that you can't even yet gain from the vast resources available in the wonderful world at your doorstep.
Sometimes those "nuggets" are hard to spot amid the debris of broken dreams. My reply to Euph was filtered through the experience of relinquishing our own beloved older son to the worldly desires of his heart--relinquishing him at last, after years of trying to reason with him and begging the Lord to give him increased vision for his life. Before the first week of his public school was over, which was 11th grade, he announced at supper that he was totally bored, academically, and that the school was everything we told him it would be. And that he loved it! Our son literally went up to the chalk board to help the geometry teacher in bisecting angles--not to demonstrate for other class members, but to help the teacher out! This was at the beginning of the year--simple angles! In English, the students got an education in occultism, including vampirism--not a Saturday morning comic version, either. In one class, the teacher was gone so much that the kids set up their own competitions, and our son won the dental floss contest: he could swallow the most and then pull it out. To say nothing of the girls standing in line for him. I picked up the phone once to hear a girl tell him that she was "ready" whenever he was. (Not that all the teachers there nor all the students fit this description.) Euph might be right in one sense. Maybe keeping our beloved ones at home who have an unquenchable longing for the "world" is a mistake. I don't know. I do know that his determination to make our home life miserable enough so that we'd send him, worked. He seriously undermined the homeschooling for his younger siblings in the meantime and gave us a new understanding of the word, "abuse." Children can abuse their parents! In contrast, working with our present highschoolers who have determined to take their longings and questions and dissatisfactions to the Cross and submit to their parents' direction, hoping to develop Christ-like characteristics through it all, is a delight! Sifting through the avalanche of what else I could share, I think I'll just summarize the above thoughts by saying that: Academics are by far not the biggest challenge in high school! The biggest challenge is helping our young people choose to walk on by the lures of the "world," to develop a servant's heart as they seek to find His call for their lives, to choose hard work and wholesome fun over shallow entertainment and cheap thrills, and to trust that God knew what He was doing when he made parents. Thank you for your kind words. If any part of this is helpful to any one on this forum, then it will give me some comfort that our sorrows were not wasted.
