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Homeschool is not for us

For several reasons I feel the need to defend my decision to send my children to public school.   Somebody implied that I did not do my research and I did not pray about the decision.  Both of which are false.  We feel at this point in time our children need to be in school.  We are capable of homeschooling.  However, it isn't where our kids need to be.  Jake has done very well in school.  It has helped him a great deal in being able to control his emotions.  He learned how to make friends.  He has become more outgoing and more creative.

  Victoria has learned so much in the past few days. She can not wait to go back to school.  She is coming out of shell and making friends. 

Do I think that my children will be exposed to things which may not be in line with what we teach at home?  Yup. However they are exposed to that by being exposed to that through family and friends. 

The majority of people I know who have home schooled have done their children a great injustice.  The majority of people I know don't not have good structure or good resources in order to educate their children. I see home schooled children who struggle socially and academically.  In my experience there is a small minority who do a great job of educating their children. 

Since this is my blog I can share my opinion.  You don't have to agree.

Comments

  1. profunditeaTuesday, August 30, 2011

    Hate to break it to your opposition, but your kids are going to learn all kinds of things outside of the home once they get old enough. Best to introduce them to it now while you can still guide them to healthy and intelligent decisions instead of feeding them to the wolves by sheltering their every move. Socialization is HUGE for kids, I saw an amazing degradation in both my sisters after my parents put them in a home school type situation. In fact, neither of them have graduated from high school at this point (one is 21 the other is 23 with a child of her own).

    I suppose that's a long way of saying in my limited exposure to such things, I tend to agree with your decision.

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  2. NatalieWednesday, August 31, 2011

    Thanks! I appreciate it.

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