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I am proud and happy to say that we are homeschooling our children, again. They started public school in October of 2012 – at their request. They came to us toward the end of Winter (we call it Christmas break) Break and listed out 12 reasons why they thought they needed to be taken out of school. Now, they could have been silly and just made up reasons and just said that they didn’t like it. But these are the things that they mentioned:
1) Missing Dad – he works 2nd shift so they would often go 2-4 days without seeing him at all.
2) Having to listen to bad language
3) Having to listen to the teaching/opinions of their teachers and having to figure out for themselves if they align to what their teacher said
4) Missing Dad ;)
5) Gross things. My son had problems with a friend of his ‘mooning’ his classmates on the playground. really??
6) Having to listen to yucky/inappropriate stories/jokes/talk – usually sexually explicit things
7) Peer Pressure to do or say or be things they wouldn’t normally do
8) Bad attitudes – They noticed that their attitudes were grumpier / more impatient than before school
9) Missing Mom
10) Bullying – 3 of my children have been bullied in the Public School Setting. They were only at this school since the end of October and my 1st grader was bullied.
11) Not enough family time
12) More importance placed on appearance/worldly things
Not bad, if I do say so myself. My children could ‘choose’ to be like everyone else and just get desensitized to all of the inappropriate things at school, but they are wise enough to know that they had a choice to partake in that or not. Luckily, for our family – Homeschool IS a good fit for us. I know that my husband and I are much happier with them being home. It feels like our family is ‘back on track’.
I am grateful that my children asked to go back and we allowed them. Truly those were the same reasons we wanted to keep them OUT of school. I told the children this and they kind of sheepishly laughed and said that they understood more. They also said that they wouldn’t ask to go back – EVER AGAIN. :D
Right now we still have the Kindergartener in his Online School (Mercury Online). This is good for him. However, we will be doing the ‘educating’ ourselves. There is more than enough quality resources that we can pull from via the internet, public libraries, life experience, etc. There isn’t ANYTHING my children can learn in a public school setting that they can’t learn 100% more/quicker/better/etc. at home with their parents (who have their entire best interests at heart) to help lead them and guide them.
This week has been awesome. I have LOVED having them home with me and I have repeatedly expressed this to them on MULTIPLE occasions!! :) I will continue to do so!
We have had some negativity in regards to ‘they can’t be kept in a bubble’ and ‘they need to learn how to cope in the ‘real’ world’. Really? I believe I can cope in the real world without immersing myself in drugs. I believe I can cope in the real world without being involved with promiscuous people, etc. It is such a lame argument, really. What research has ever been done to show that people in Public Schools are better equipped and more capable to be successful in the ‘real world’ than people who are Homeschooled? I believe that statistic doesn’t exist.
Make it a great one – FOR YOUR FAMILY!!
Make it a great one!!
