DittoI don't have any kids. Jim.
I’m liking your threads lately. We have started homeschooling our preschool aged kid and plan to continue homeschooling, for both practical and spiritual reasons.What stops you from homeschooling?
I see a lot of "oh my, can you believe how the government is indoctrinating our kids?" but I don't see an equal amount of "I'm out, we are now homeschooling" threads.
Thanks!
Good stuff.Here are both sides of it for us:
Pros:
My Sister in law is a teacher (as is my mother in law), and is homeschooling her kids. We've discussed doing some sort of family academy.
Right now our first grader is bored. At the start of the year he was reading at the end of 2nd grade. He reads multiple chapter books a week. When he does have an at home learning day, he's done with all the assigned work in about 2 hours, which means the remaining 5-6 hours he's just hanging out at school. I would really like to see him challenged.
Cons:
Our first grader is very social. He finds friends everywhere - every time we go to the park he organizes a game of tag or something with people. He would really miss out interacting with people not his family.
My wife and I are both educated (both CPA's), but we're not really equipped to teach advanced science, math or english. We would likely need to get some kind of supplementary group education after elementary school anyway.
We have decent schools in Hendricks. Granted our only school aged child is a first grader, but we haven't seen any of the crazy gender stuff come up in conversation.
If you send your kids to Ceasar don't be surprised when they come home Romans.We've homeschooled our kids from the beginning. It's a lot of effort and expense but so is government indoctrination. I don't quite understand the parents that send their kids to school then complain about it at the same time either.
I feel that one. We've been single income for 11 years this Wednesday. But it's totally worth it.You guys have seen my guns. You think I have kids?
My observation of the people for whom homeschooling works is as follows:
-The family is supported by the father's income, via either extremely high income or tight budgeting.
-Wife stays at home because her earning potential is less than the cost of daycare, and she is personally inclined toward being a present parent and experiencing those irreplaceable years with her children.
-Homeschooling becomes a daily task for the wife as an outgrowth of early child care, motivated by any number of factors including geographic isolation, distrust of the school system, labor requirements on the farm or homestead, religious reasons, etc.
The resources nowadays are a lot better than they used to be, but survival on a single income has correspondingly gotten less realistic for most families.
Thanks.Good stuff.
Be encouraged. There are different versions of homeschooling. Increasingly folks are doing a mix of online classes and mom or dad led instruction.
As far as socializing goes...lots of opportunities for that in the community and the church. I really don't want the government in charge of socializing kids anymore than educating them.
We use INDLS through the K12 system, because we didn't have a clue when we started. We still use it as it gives some structure, but we now supplement with our own stuff as well.Home schooling is appealing to us. Our kids are grades 4th, 3rd and pre K right now in the public system. To answer your question as to what stops us from doing it.
1. The cost
2. So far our kids have thrived under the structure provided by LCSC. One of our kids in particular needs that structure and providing that kind of structure at home (with a pre k in the mix) seems impossible.
3. The indoctrination is real and we frequently (usually daily) have conversations with our kids about what ideologies are being taught from gender, eminent climate crisis, politics and on and on. Our 4th grader has an openly trans kid in his class. The school openly celebrates this kid. As much as we’d like to say “that’s it, we’re out!”, there is a part of us that feels that’s just running away and we should focus more on preparing them for the world they will and are encountering. It’s a big decision either way. On one hand we want to protect our kids, on the other hand our kids need to see the world for what it is and learn how to think critically against the deceptive ideologies. I think both can be done both settings, home schooling and sending to public school. Every family and child will have different needs and variables.