Top Ten Reasons to Homeschool
We talked at length but here are ten of the reasons that stuck with me from our conversation: 1. "I want to be the one who sees the "aha" moments in my children. I don't want to have to hear about what they learned in school that day (if they even remember to tell me). I want to be a part of that, witness and encourage it. I can't outsource those moments. I'm selfish like that."2. "I didn't want my kid standing in line all day! We went and visited several schools before we made the decision to homeschool and I noticed something that all of them had in common. Everywhere I went, I saw endless lines of kids! They were waiting in line for their teacher to pick them up from one class and go to another. They were waiting in line to eat lunch. They were waiting in line to go to the bathroom. I started to wonder, 'How much time a day did they spend standing in lines?' I also heard the hauntingly familiar "We're not going anywhere until everyone is in line quiet and is standing still!' and I was instantly taken back to my own school experience. Standing in line was one of my least favorite things to do when I was in school, I didn't want my kid having to do that all day!3. "I've been in the teaching world. I know how the school system works. I know how it takes an act of congress to get curriculum changed if something's not working. I wanted have the authority to say, 'You know what, this is not working for you, is it? Let's do something different' and not have to wait until failure upon failure revealed that this was not the route to go. If we see that something is not speaking to our homeschooled children, we have the freedom to go another route.Pages: 1 [2] 3 4
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22.10.2009
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