Comments on: Homeschooling. Or Unschooling. Or . . . Something. Part 1.

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:45:03 +0000

Kate I am seriously considering homeschooling and I like how you talk about. I can’t wait to check out your links. My boys are three so it is early, but I get asked all the time about preschool. Yikes, there is an early push for school. After the holidays I read more of your blog and probably send an email just to chat about homeschool/parenting stuff.
Annie

By: How We Do It (Homeschooling Part 3) : Simply Mother

How We Do It (Homeschooling Part 3) : Simply Mother — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:05:48 +0000

[...] wrote about how I never thought I would even consider homeschooling, and it was because I thought I [...]

By: Nat2

Nat2 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:19:00 +0000

I just read the first link, a conversation with John Holt. What a great article! I’m all inspired now!

By: My School Experience: Playing the Game (Homeschooling, Part 2) : Simply Mother

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:13:36 +0000

[...] Hi, this is my little series about why and how we choose homeschool. If you missed the beginning — what led me to begin considering such madness in the first place along with some good links on natural learning — go here: Homeschooling. Or Unschooling. Or … Something. [...]

By: nat

nat — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:17:22 +0000

I commend you for writing about the way you feel on a lot of these topics. I never feel like I can adequately write, or have enough room to accurately describe how I feel. So here is the condensed version. Yes I am thinking about home school. No I do not feel qualified but am probably going to attempt it. There is a private LDS school here where some people in our ward teach, and their only child attends(they have never used birth control and only 1 child has been sent to their family so far, she is 13…in case you were wondering). I want to send my kids here but it is 250 a month per child, and I don’t see myself being able to afford this. Maybe I will send them here for their high school years. I want to say I think you would be interested in this curriculum. It is the Thomas Jefferson method, and the teenager I know that goes there is extremely bright, social, well mannered, confident girl. There is only 60 students total in the school, and the dean interviews them separately, monthly. They back their studies up with scripture and modern day revelation. I attended one of their activities the other day. It was a hoe down. All family members are invited to all of the school activities, even prom, and they played country music and whole families were out in the middle dancing and mingling. It was so neat to see teenagers hugging and dancing with their parents surrounded by their peers. I really should get to bed, but I am counting the days with dread till Mason reaches school age. I already have parents asking me if he is in Pre school now that he is 3. I hate it!!!!

By: Simply Mother

Simply Mother — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:52:52 +0000

So are you going to homeschool?! :)

I know, those are all reasons I am really so grateful that we are homeschooling now, but before I was even willing to consider it an option, I tried to ignore/minimize all those things because the thought of homeschooling was just SO overwhelming! Once I realized I could do it, and also that I absolutely felt awful about sending her to school, I finally started to really consider all these other things.

Now, even if I didn’t have all these concerns about actual learning, I would probably homeschool just to avoid all that stuff I listed.

By: nat

nat — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:31:47 +0000

I think it is funny how you posted the things that are not reasons why you did not want to send your child to school. They ARE Very big reasons in my book. LOL. I do not want to send my kids away for hours every day. I don’t want to shuffle them out the door. I don’t want them exposed to tons of other kids at a young age who have no morals or values. It all terrifies me, however I do think that your main reason for wanting to home school is noble, I just have to say that everything about public school terrifies me.