Homeschooling anyone?

Question

do you homeschool/cyberschool. how do you like it? why do you home/cyber school? how long have you been doing it?

Answer 1

This is our third year of homeschooling our boy's.  We started from the get go.  There are a number of reasons I homeschool.  We get more and more reasons as time goes on.  In the beginning it was because we didn't like the school system and the "No Child Left Behind".  But as time has gone on we have seen our family get closer.  We do a lot of things together as a family and they also have many friends they get to play with of many different ages.  I have also joined a local MOMS Club so the boy's are around kids of many different ages that way too.  So not only do the boy's have homeschool friends but also public school friends.  They are very well rounded in the social aspect.  Another reason we have chosen to homeschool is because my husband works afternoons so he would never see the kids till the weekend.  What's great too is that my hubby is very much apart of our homeschool day.  He will help one child if I am teaching the other one.  Homeschooling may not be for everyone and that doesn't make them any less a parent but for our family it works.

Answer 2

I really like homeschooling my kids. I'll star this so my daughter will see it if she visits the site today.

Answer 3

I home school. I like it because I do not need to deal with all the pressures of public school. I home school because since I was born, my Mom has home schooled me. I like being homeschooled.

Answer 4

yeah i do homeschooling and I've been doing if for 2 years already. although i do it through a college but I'm at home and do it by myself. it has it's ups and downs..you have to take a break and go out with friends or things like that otherwise you going to get very frustrated. but other than that i like it.

Answer 5

I have been homeschooled all my life. Since I have not personally ever gone to public school it is hard to compare it for myself. But from what I hear of what other kids say, I believe I would prefer homeschooling any time.

Answer 6

I was homeschooled in touch typing (age 6) and music notation, harmony and theory (age 5 and 17).

I unschooled in film, photography, astronomy, meteorology, audio recording, and musical instruments ( guitar, bass and keys).

I was typing with all fingers by age 7 and doing 45 WPM by age 8.

I knew all the notes on the G clef by age 6

I was arranging and finding chords from recordings by age 17

I was homeschooled in computers from age 7-8

I can still read a punch card and know what is on it

10 punch

11 punch

12 punch

Answer 7

I have been homeschooling my GT/LD son since the fall after he turned five. He just turned eleven. We have been formally homeschooling for five and a half years, although, like all parents, we certainly taught him at home before he was "school aged'. We use many different resources for curriculum, but haven't used a "pre-packaged" curriculum or online school because of his very asynchronous development. We homeschool because it is by far the easiest way to meet his academic needs. He is extremely intelligent (IQ measured at 150+), but has visual and motor disabilities that impact his ability to function in a regular classroom without accomodations.  It was a nightmare trying to get appropriate placement with both accelerated curriculum and accomodatations for his disabilities, so we decided to teach him at home where there is no hassle about him using a keyboard for his written work,no requirement that he work at his age level rather than his intellectual level, or that he work at the same level in all subjects, and no requirement that his occupational and physical therapy be scheduled outside of "school hours". He is using college-level books for his literature and history work, doing high school level science, and working on pre-algebra. His handwriting is almost legible now, but still painfully slow. We love homeschooling most of the time, although there are times when the thought of just sending him to school (boarding shcool, even!) is tempting.

For the past year and a half, I have also been homeschooling my niece who just turned 17, who lives with us.  It was more of a challenge with her, because she already had a lot of bad habits from school in addition to having had some pretty drastic and tragic life events that led to us having custody. She has just entered the dual enrollment program at our local community college, though, so the year and a half struggle to get her skills and motivation up has been both successful and worth it.

Answer 8

I homeschool my 10yo, we've been homeschooling since he was 6.5.  

We started homeschooling for a few different reasons; first, he's highly gifted and was bored silly in school...when his first grade teacher demanded that he be medicated simply because he was bored, that pretty much did it.  Also, he contracted SARS about 6 years ago and it affected his immune system.  He just plain can't be around all the illnesses that go through a school system.

We love it!  He's well above grade level in almost every subject, gets to study what he's interested in (in a way that makes sense to him), and he still has the time to be involved in extracurriculars of his choice.  He's heavily involved in competitive baseball, Scouts, and plays, and still has time to rest and play with his friends.

Answer 9

Yes we do. Not cyberschool, unschool. I love it. My kids love it. Why? Because our gifted children were getting the shaft, our disabled children were getting the shaft, and living life in freedom is worth everything in the world.

We've been homeschooling since April of 2005.

Answer 10

I have been homeschooling for some years now my son 14 loves it I home school because he has Crohns, but we have found we love it he will graduate at 16 I am so proud

Answer 11

meeee!  i love it!  i was unschooled through 4th grade, then used more structured curriculum for 5th-7th and went to private school for 8th grade.

i hated private school!!!!  didn't learn a thing.  it was all about cliques, crushes, and busy work.  in homeschool you can learn your style at your pace

and you can pick your own curriculum and you can have plenty of socialization through extracurricular activities.  you don't have to stay up late to finish hw and then get up at 6 to get to school on time so you actually can think during the day. you have time to be creative and read and write for fun.  you get to know your family a lot better because you actually see them.  i'm now in 10th grade and doing highschool in 3 years (something I couldn't do in public or private school).  homeschooling has made me much more responsible since i have to keep up with my own work and make my own schedules, etc..  i love homeschooling and wouldn't trade it for anything!!!!

Gracie ♥

Answer 12

homeschooling is a hard issue to form an opinion on. on the one hand, you have kids who, for some reason or another, have to be homeschooled. on the other hand, you have kids who would function just as well in public school but whose social growth is somewhat stunted due to their lack of social interaction with people both their own age and adults.

personally, i'm for public school 99% of the time. the other 1% is situtations involving kids with special needs that really demand a special form of education. now when i say special needs, i don't mean "oh, they were just too smart." i'm involved in a theatre group where most of the kids are homeschooled, and it's been an issue between the parents and even sometimes the kids before. while she was volunteering at our last production, my mom was basically told that, since they were in public school, her kids were no more than "average". now, i'm not trying to be concieted, but both me and my two sisters are very smart, and make A's and B's in all our advanced classes. with my logic, this says that the reason some kids are homeschooled is that their parents believe public school is "below" them and they "deserve better".

however, it's not the parents who are hurt by homeschooling, it's the kids. parents all over the country swear that homeschooling is great and thier kids love it, but do they really? as i said before, i participate in a largely home-schooled theatre, where some of the kids have trouble making and getting along with friends because they haven't done it every day since kindergarten. they'll get into arguments and not know how to handle it because at home they only fight with siblings, if even that, and those dynamics are different than those of friendship.

also, they sometimes have trouble respecting adults. lets face it, most kids don't respect their own parents as much as they do other adults. i can get mad and snap at my mom every once in a while and it's understood, but if i did that to any other adult i'd be labeled as a little brat.

what i'm trying to say is that public school is more than just academics. it's extra curriculars, friends, and life lessons. take it from someone who actually should be deciding on this matter, a kid. aren't we the ones supposed to be benefiting anyway?

Answer 13

We home/unschool; we do it because it is our way of life.

It provides us, and our children with the freedom to choose our/their own path, and follow our/their interests, as well as learn at our/their own pace.

We have done this for many years, and for us home schooling; having had experience with both the public (DOD), and private schools; is without a doubt the only way to go.

Personally we do not believe that on-line schools are a true form of home schooling; they fall under the umbrella of doing "school @ home"....

They still give you a prescribed curriculum, and a schedule that they set to follow; this is no different than a conventional school system.

Answer 14

I homeschooled K-12 and would never want to change anything about my education.  During my elementary years I did most of my work at the kitchen table with my brother and sister, but when I got older I took classes being offered by other homeschool parents, at the community center, taught violin lessons, and was involved in multiple activities on a weekly basis.  Sometimes it was hard to fit in school 'work'!  

And  -- erin --'s comment that homeschool parents believe that their children deserve 'better' it actually quite true.  I know my parents certainly thought I derserved better than what our failing education system had to offer me.  And they were willing to sacrifice careers, money, and personal time to make sure my education was the best I could possibly have.  I am not saying that public schoolers parents do not care about their children as much, they just show it in different ways.

Answer 15

I have been homeschooled for a year and a half. I started when I was in seventh grade because I got very bad anxiety and migraines in the public school. I am planning on going back to the public school for high school.