"Homeschooling is best"

i have thought about it before but i would never homeschool my kids in my opinion they need to be around kids their own age and make friends.plus there is sports,prom,and etc..i wouldn't want my kids to be sheltered from real life.my parents took me out of school in the 10th grade and tried to homeschool me because i got in too much trouble but that didn't work i got worse and quit school which now i do have my ged but the point is if they aren't out in the world they'll never learn from their own mistakes because they'll never have experiences being stuck at home being schooled

My husband & I both agreed that our kids will be homeschooled. He was homeschooled his whole life, and they have great programs where you can bring the kids together for sports, highschool classes, etc.

I home schooled my son from 4th through 12th grade, and it was the best thing for him. I don't regret it at all. When he was kindergarten age, his preschool visited the school where he would attend. What I discovered was amazingly stupid. There were 4 "pods" - classrooms - in one room, with only partions separating them. It was chaotic for me, and I was an adult! While sitting in one pod, you could hear and see what was going on in the others. Eighty kindergarteners were in one large room, separated into 4 classes. That didn't impress me at all. Then I discovered that because we were 1.8 miles (and not over 2 miles) from the school, he would have to walk. Parents were not allowed to drive their kids onto the school grounds. Walking would mean that he had to cross a huge intersection - where there were 6 lanes going north/south and 4 going east/west. There was no crossing guard because there were not enough kids to justify the cost. And parents were not allowed to help any kids other than their own cross the street. My son taught himself to read before he was 3, and when I talked with the school district, I learned that he would not be tested for giftedness until after he was finished with 2nd grade. I knew that by then my son would either hate school or have gotten in lots of trouble. Especially since they insisted he would have to be totally reprogrammed to learn to read the "right" way. We found an excellent private school, designed much like the old one-room-schoolhouses. Kindergarten through second graders were in one room, but it was not chaotic like the public school situation. My son could socialize with the other kindergarteners, but read with the second graders. It was perfect. Or so we thought. Turned out that since we were the "wrong" Christian denomination, they prayed for my son and his parents (me and my ex!) and his grandparents, even his pastor, every morning. Not acceptable. He was there for kindergarten and first grade before we realized this. He spent 2nd grade in another wonderful private school. But it closed after he finished 2nd grade. Next he was in a Montessori school for 3rd grade. Unfortunately, the owner/director was searching for her own spiritual path and introducing the kids to everything as she went along. They learned about magnet therapy, crystals, yoga, hinduism, buddhism. Learning about them isn't a bad thing. But as the director changed here idea of what was right, she got angry if the kids didn't embrace her newfound religion or thought process. So...come 4th grade, I checked out the public school system again and discovered that our state was ranked 49th out of 50 at the time. And our county was one of the worst in the state. So, we started home schooling. When we moved to another state a few years later, we continued home schooling. My son could have finished his education about 2 years earlier than others his age, because he sped through the lessons. But I insisted that he slow down the pace and be a kid as well. In about 8th or 9th grade, he wasn't thrilled about home schooling. But when he realized what doo-doo his friends went through in public schools, he liked being home schooled. And now, at age 24, he says that if he ever has kids of his own, he will also home school. (Or unschool...as many home schoolers are doing now.)

i really wish i was smarter and more structured- i would love to homeschool my kids. the hubby would never go for that, though. i would like to send them to a christian school, though. our church has a school that i would like them to attend, but my husband is not too fond of that idea, either. he is not against the christian education or anything, he just has the same arguments as above- they would not be able to attend prom, play sports, etc. which i don't agree with but whatever- we will see.