From: bugchick@clara.co.uk
"Carolyn" wrote in message
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> June,
> do you think you will home school for their entire education?
I think so, yeah. Unless they ask to go to school, then that's what we'd do.
I can't really see that happening though, they enjoy things the way they
are. India (9) went to school for 2 and 1/2 years and it was OK, but she
prefers Home Ed. Trin (6) has never been, and Pagyn (3) won't either. What's
becoming more popular here is for them to sit some GCSEs at 14 and then go
straight in to college for 2 years, which is when they'd usually be able to
leave school.
Hats off to you
> :) I never thought of home schooling--for one a single mom, I have to
work to
> provide for us.
I didn't even know it was legal until I started researching online to try
and find a way to get the education department to give India a local school
place when we moved. They wanted her to go to a really dreadful school
outside our area. I found out she didn't have to go at all and I could teach
her at home, and decided to do this for 9 months until the new local school
was built. We didn't look back then, none of us wanted her to go back to
school after we'd started!
We have an excellent elementary and middle school system here,
> so never really had to think of it. BUT once my girls hit high
school...holy
> cow!! There are ALOT of parents here that have home schooled their kids
up to
> HS then put them in because, well obviously hs has much more material to
cover
> if you are college prepping. We have one high school here in Dare County
(well
> 2--but Hatteras is so far it only hosts those who live on Hatteras
Island). Its
> over crowded and the teachers have come to use that as a convenient excuse
for
> not teaching. My oldest in her sophomore year started getting into
> trouble--skipping school which of course resulted in failing grades. then
she
> couldnt make the ball team because we dont have the right last name. At
the
> start of her Jr year she asked if she could go to school at her dads---350
miles
> away! Traumatic for me (lol) but I let her go. She played ball, got
better
> grades and a took honors classes. Educationally, did much better. THEN,
my
> youngest in her sophomore year started getting physically sick. She HATED
> school--the hour long bus ride to the "boring 90 min classes". The school
is on
> a block system they take 4 90 min classes each semester--much too long for
the
> average teen ager whose attention span is about 40 mins. I ended up
taking Kim
> to the hospital for gastro tests and at 14 she was on two different
> prescriptions for stomach problems!! I decided it was too much and took
her
> out.
Good for you!!
We got into an online system--Thompson Direct. She started by going to a
> tutor with about 6 other kids, but at $25 per day wasnt getting much out
of it
> we took it on in the evenings. She has done fantastic--went from a C
(80s)
> average to a 93 average! It'll be most of her friends will be starting
their
> junior years this september and Kim will be graduating!
Wow! That's excellent! Aren't you glad you took her out?!
>The best part is she is
> no longer needing the prescriptions; her physical problems seemed to have
> cleared. Obviously a stress thing. She has a full time job put away
abuot $2K
> this summer and for the first time ever is thinking about college. Will
most
> likely start at a community college in the winter to see if its something
she
> wants to continue with.
This seems to happen a lot - the stress of school is removed and the
children lose their symptoms.
> Okay, well Im sure this is WAY off topic now...but there certainly is a
LOT to
> be said for alternative education methods!
> Just thought I'd air my story :)
> Carolyn
Thanks, it was interesting :o)
--
June
www.he-ed.org.uk
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