Do you think kids should be homeschooled up to a certain age/grade...and then be placed into public/private school? Or, do you think homeschooling should be all the way up to college/workforce?
I know one family that strongly believes in even doing college at home. I believe that we need to teach our kids how to think for themselves and honor God. So that at some age they will be ready to enter the world and make good decisions. Personally I think High School is so messed up, that is not the place. I'd rather they wait until post secondary. However, that being said, if my kids really want to go to High School for the sports or extra curricular opportunities, I will let them. We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it! Also, keep in mind that as a home schooling family we haven't placed our kids in a bubble. They still play with the neighborhood kids, go to local soccer and play groups. So they are learning how to interact with all kinds of people. Just not on a full-time basis. We are they're primary community.
Public JR. High and High School is one of the last places I want my boys to get "educated." Dh and I believe God would have us to HS from begining to the end. Praise His name. Read back through this and it seemed kind of "tacky," didn't mean for it to, sorry.
I second what mom24boys said! Junior high is NOT the place and high school is NOT the place I think any kids need to be! I don't think I'd try homeschooling college, but if I had one who was so advanced they were ready for college level work extra young, I might try it. (I didn't have one like that.)
I agree with what's been said. Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll be HSing all the way through to graduation.
I think it depends on the person, and how they believe God is leading them. My former pastor homeschooled through grade 4, Christian school through grade 8, and public school through high school. It wasn't my way of doing things, but it has worked very well for him. I've friends that have sent theirs out for high school, even some on here. So basically, none of us are capable of answering your question. We can tell you OUR plans, but you need to decide for yourself.
I don't know, but we haven't even started yet and my 7 year old asked if I would homeschool him through college. LOL I think that had something to do with me telling him he could have a parakeet when he was grown up though.
I think it depends on the child, the Lord's direction and the town/city in which you lives school district or private school options.
I should add that I have a friend who HS'd hers through 8th grade. Then she was very adamant that the Lord called them to public school to be missionaries there. She felt by 8th grade they had a firm foundation for faith, then used that faith to witness to the kids they met in high school. That is what God called her to do, so that's what she did.
I used to think that homeschooling high school was not that important. I have now changed my mind. I think, especially with someone like my son, it is very important to keep him home. He is not an academically inclined person, so I can help him there and focus on his strengths. I don't know how well he would do if faced with the amount of peer pressure at most high schools. On the one hand I think he would be strong enough, but I never thought I would give in before I did. Even the best kids can do things wrong. I am not keeping him in a box, but this allows me to know who he is around. So I think the great things of doing high school at home are: less peer pressure: you can't eliminate all of it, but you can lessen it More personalized education: the schools only have so many electives,but shooting and weapon making aren't there. My son would have no way to develop his gifts at school in ps. Plus, when hunting season is here, he can take off different days than the ps and hunt.
Oh totally really pay attention to the peer pressure stuff people! My ds showed me how important it is to keep him home this summer as his peer pressure was bringing words out of his mouth and attitudes which would not have been there. I am certain of that. I see him as one who would not totally give in but I see his friends pressure him even church friends to do wrong. he fights it but there is that friend who will get the kids to do what they would normally not do, that is the one we really do need to protect them from. ( hows that for a run on bunch of sentences folks!)
We'll likely homeschool through high school too. If we lived in a place with a suitable high school I might consider it at that time. There is no way I would send my child to a boarding school until college. I would consider dual-enrollment in the local college during high school if there is one available where we live.
To echo a previous poster, I think it depends on so much. Our current plan is to homeschool through high school, but if we were in a situation where the high school offered both an appropriate academic and acceptable social atmosphere, we'd be inclined to send one of our boys there. Another, though, is so physically inclined and so quick on his work - it's very much about getting back to building, making, hammering. I realize many things can change in the next ten years, but fewer schools offer hands on vocational opportunities, and I really see this boy being interested in what he can do and make, not what he can think about.
We will be homeschooling through high school. I once was listening to Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the radio and a parent asked her about homeschooling and what years. The parent was saying how they were homeschooling during elementary to give the children a firm foundation and then allow them to go to high school. Her reaction was one of astonishment. She couldn't figure out why someone would put all that work into their children only to turn them over to the wolves at such a critical time in their development. Her thoughts were, if you were only going to homeschool for a certain number of years, choose high school.
We go day by day, week by week, month by month and then year by year. Our plan is to go through highschool... but life happens and we don't know what lays ahead in our future, so we take what ever comes our way and decide every day what we will do tomarrow.
I totally agree! I kind of think High School is the more important time to home school. However, you have to take in to account your child's maturity. We can walk are kids through things if they are ready, God calls us there, and we pray. It is a personal decision. But I definitely agree High School isn't necessarily the time to return a kid to PS!
We aren't so narrow-minded as to think that God has a one-size-fits-all approach to homeschooling. But this last time we prayed over it (our kids have gone to ps a time or two), we were assured by Him that this was now for the long haul and not to question Him again.
We are right there with you. Years ago, I said, "I would never hs." God said, "Think again." And like you, we have prayed over it more than once, and more than once God has told us, "You are HSing!" Once again, Praise His name.
I plan to HS all the way through high school (and some college) as well. My dh may have other ideas, but that's the plan we both have for now.
I pulled my older daughter out after 8th grade because she has a lot of emotional/mental issues that stem back to her neglectful childhood and before I adopted her. I felt she needed to spend more time connecting with us as a family and depending on us as her parents. I saw her depending more and more on the hoochie-mama-dressing friends in thick black eyeliner and less and less on us, her parents. I never had a problem with the education aspect as she always had good grades. (Boy do I feel different now after realizing all the holes in her public school education.) she will not return to public school and will finish out her high school years being homeschooled. That said, my 5 yr old will not see the inside of a public school. She will be homeschooled until she graduates.
