Homeschooling

I heard there were three ways to get an education: through a public school, a private or religious school, or by homeschooling.

Is anyone on here homeschooled? That is how I was educated, I never stepped foot inside of a public school. Yet I heard that homeschooling is not a conventional way to educate a person since most people do attend a public school for like, 12 years.

Here in washington state there was a special school I attended called Homelink, and they had a program I went through called "CAM" which was reserved for Homeschooled students only. They would not let you attend it if you were not homeschooled.

And yet I do have my high school diploma, which I got in 2005.

I was wondering how many other children in the world were homeschooled or educated by their parents.

Gee, with the lack of responses you'd think no one even owned a computer anymore... o.o

They do, right? Ok, maybe I was just being assuming, maybe I thought everyone out there had a computer like I did -- I mean, there is no one here.

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Well I was homeschooled and my church has about 60-70 homeschooling families in it. I certainly don't think that it is the "norm" but it is growing. In fact, I am starting to see people that aren't even believers in Christ start homeschooling to prevent their kids from getting bullied and such.

I am in California and I homeschool my two daughters. I graduated one last year and she now has a full time job and I have a 10th grader. I pulled them out of the public system 8 years ago.

I think homeschooling is becoming a lot more popular especially with the Common Core.

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Thanks

TJ

Public School in my opinion is the best, I have been to private/christian school and it's all politics you don't want to deal with that. Many of them are legalistic and complain if your daughters skirt is just the knee... Then you have to buy another one for $55.

I know friends who are private schooled and they are the most sheltered people I know they are 21+ ish and neither of them drive or have adult social skills. They both are having issues in college.

- Tina

posted: "... especially with the Common Core."

It's going to be interesting, isn't it? What do you think will happen?

We are part of a home school league where we live. Spread across our families we have a total of about 50-70 children that all of us moms teach. I home schooled our son for 10 years.

Do you use a set curriculum? btw, I admire anyone who really home schools.

After months of deliberation on this I have decided to homeschool our son. And yes his school is now doing common core IT IS GARBAGE.

there is no one here.

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Sorry for the delayed responses -- this isn't a very active subforum. There are a lot of people across all of CF who were home schooled, but might not be looking for a thread on it.

I know families who did it, some successfully and some not. In our town we're fortunate to have a great network, so the experience can be more like an open-air school, where families choose to opt in to subject-teachers, sports facility time blocks, foreign language training, tutoring help, musical groups, and curriculum sharing.

Kids in that network have close friends and probably talk more than they would in traditional classrooms of 25-30. They know their way around the city, and how to access what they need.

I knew a teen whose mother went back for a degree, so the teen took charge of ordering their own curriculum and scheduling their own standardized tests. They took AP courses and graduated early... all within the structure of outside evaluation and online learning.

Renee, think you've made a great decision.

Our homeschool time will begin Oct 6 as I am getting everything prepared so I can be ready

This is our first year homeschooling our daughter. She spent five years in the public schools, but after being belittled by the school administration we as parents had said we have had enough. We filed the paperwork for change of school and it was denied, we appealed and that was denied. We then filed for change of school district and that was denied and we appealed to the state and they denied. So knowing how easy the paperwork is to go through to homeschool, we dropped the public schools like a brick. The days of being bullied by the school administration are over. While some subjects are easier than others, we started in August and are working until the end of May at the earliest.

So our decision had nothing to do with our Christian background, but there are a number of families in our church that do also. We all belong to co-op group, but we belong to a different one than everybody else. Ours is tied to a Christian Academy in a town about an hour away. They have said that the homeschool co-op side of things has more than doubled over last year. They told me that they have several stories similar to mine where school administrators have abused their power over students and parents and parents are no longer putting up with it.

Had to change the date of homeschool we started today. My boy Yells "I LOVE HOMESCHOOL".

I homeschooled my dyslexic children ...
they are now grown one just graduated from christian college .. it took her like 10 years to do it.. but she did graduate from a Christian college with a business degree.

one of my sons can't pass any test he is so dyslexic. couldn't even get his GED because it too him too long... it runs on his father's side of the family really bad..
and my grandkids are dyslexic and I help their mom with schooling..

lots of hands on and science and history....

but there just won't be lots of reading or math. not conventional ways of Math anyway because they can't keep lines strait.. it is just not going to happen.. we teach them to think mathematically , oral and verbal tests ... so that they can reason out a problems..

so our best hope is to teach them all to think and to think around their owns minds kind of puzzles.... this pre teaches them what sin is also. our minds ' natural" unnatural barrier to finding the truth..

We home schooled our two boys in the early years. But they weren't self motivated to do much school work so we put them back into school so they had the teachers and us putting pressure on them to do the work. Then they both went to vocational high schools and that worked much better for them.

Why is there no homeschooling thread or sub category? I seem to remember one. I am 60 t\years old, and have taught in regular schools and did HS for 25 years with my 7 kids. I am now turning back to HS to help others.

Well after one year of homeschooling...things went better than expected. We won't be turning back anytime soon.