Has anyone homeschooled or still does??

Question

I do cuz im in so much soccer that its best but does anyone else??

Answer 1

We homeschooled our son from fifth grade til he was done.  He's 25 now, and has a son of his own.  We're waiting for him to get old enough to start school with us.  Seven years ago, we started our own little school, and have had 30 students through the years, not all at once.  I tend to think of it as a tiny private school, but mostly the parents tend to think of us as homeschooling for them because they can't for one reason or another.  Next fall, we're going to have a student in fifth grade who has homeschooled his whole life so far -- unlike his 6 siblings, he wants to go to school.  Public school is not an option for his parents, so I guess we're a good compromise!  We live in a really rural area, so there's not as much option for activities here, but we try to keep it fun.

Answer 2

We do because public school teaches not biblical principles and private costed too much!

Answer 3

Hey,

I homeschool.  I was starting to think no one else with a life did. Thank goodness.  How long have you been homeschooling? I'm about to be in 9th grade I've homeschooled since second.  I don't know if you can answer my questions on the answer page hopefully.  I would love to hear from you!   P.S.    are you a christian?

Answer 4

My son homeschools, we're starting his fifth year.  He homeschools by choice because the schools in our area can't really do anything for him.  (He's highly gifted, they have no gifted program...)

Answer 5

Yes...I'm 15 and have been home-educated all my life, as have my siblings.

We do it for a hundred-and-one different reasons incl. we live in a remote area and the closest school is a two day drive away. Also I can't go to boarding school cuz of health problems and cuz my dad always says he refuses to pay $30,000 a year for a bunch of strangers to teach me bad habits when he can do it himself for free.

Answer 6

i'm homeschooled and in the 12th grade

Answer 7

My kids have homeschooled for 5 years so that we can have a more flexible schedule and so that they are not sitting in a classroom 6 hours a day. We all love it and the fun we have had as a family.

It sounds like a smart choice for you because you play a lot of soccer!

Warm Regards,

Jana

http://www.summerhouseliving.com

http://www.purehomeschooling.com

Answer 8

Hey i homeschool and i really like it , dont get me wrong i miss school but i got to finish 2 years earlier. how kick *** is that!

Answer 9

my family is like urs, we're not into the bible but we believe in god. i have been homeschooled almost all my life ( me and my siblings r allowed to try school whenever we want, i tried it twice). i homeschool because my dad goes to work just when school gets out, so we would like never see him. also im homeschooled because i am a martial artist, which takes a lot of time. im getting ready to start training for my second degree in a few months and that means at the school 6 days a week, for hours on end. theres no way i could get as much training in as i needed if i went to public school! plus i would be so tired!! lolz. i bet soccer is just as time consuming and tiring as martial arts!!

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Answer 10

I'm homeschooled and in 11th grade. Started when I was in 9th for educational and social reasons (You just learn so much more and lead a much more well-rounded social life when you're homeschooled). I LOVE homeschooling. There's just so much I can do from designing my own experiments in Chemistry and Biology to finding ways to maake studying algebra a creative, hands-on activity. I can actually read REAL books instead of those butchered versions in the school literature textbooks, and write with a purpose for a change. I can really explore events in history in deapth instead of just glancing over things like they make us do in school... I can even spend a day acting out an important event with friends to really get an idea of what life is like. I can not only study government and economics in a book, but actually get INVOLVED in both in the real world. I can learn about and experiment with things the schools can't even afford to teach... things like building robots and programming them from the ground up, creating audio games (a blind person's version of a video game) with my techie friends, exploring art forms like glass fusing and silversmithing, participate in sports like judo or fencing, play guitar and bass with a band I formed with friends and boyfriend, and actually learn about and use the technology pros would use to record music, and a lot  more. And that's just the academic part! Socially, I have SO many more opportunities to get involved in my community and meet and get to know such a wide variety of people... There are the other blind teenagers that hang out at the transition club (a group of blind teens that help eachother and support eachother as we prepare for college) and all my teenage and college-age friends and contacts that I met through the National Federation of the Blind at conventions and camps and seminars. There are all the people in the fencing club I go to, many of whom are close friends of mine now. There are both teens and adults in the local art classes that I network with and spend time with. There are people I work with at the library, animal shelter, senior center, and Special Equestrians program. There are the 400+ other homeschoolers in just one of our local support groups, about 100 of whom are in highschool like me. The homeschool group goes on field trips together, hosts social events like parties, dances, game nights, prom for highschoolers, Not-Back-To-School bashes at theme parks, and so on. There are clubs that the homeschool group sponsors like robotics club, young inventors club, academic team, yearbook, news paper, drama, chorus, and so on. There are all the fellow musicians I've met through music classes and open-mic nights aat local venues, library activities like chess club and poetry club and book discussion, city sports leagues, summer programs and camps and activities, and of course all the laid-back non-structured things like going to the park or the mall or the movies with friends, or just hanging out with my boyfriend or with some of our friends at someone's house, and when you're homeschooled it's just so much easier to find time and energy for all (or at least most) of these things because you learn so much more about time management.

By the way, I'm into soccer too. I used to play in the spring season when I was younger, though probably not the way you would. My team mates would use verbal cues to let me know when they're nearby or when a player on the other team was close by, and I always listened very carefully to hear where the ball was bouncing or rustling grass and where cleats were hitting the ground. I'm not totally blind of course, but these were still pretty useful techniques. I LOVE soccer.