I homeschooled for middle and high school while working full time. We did it so they could continue with their sport (gymnastics) and not be up until 2 am working on stupid projects and reading 1 book/semester. It was the best thing we did.
My younger thanks me frequently for keeping her out of the toxic middle school drama she would have encountered. They both read lots of classics and I helped my younger address a reading problem (some form of dislexia) that the school had missed (despite me telling them something was off with her reading and comprehension) because she was gifted and ahead of her peers - which helped hide it too well.
As an engineer I learned, created syllabi for, and taught AP Human Geography and AP World History so that the older could get AP credit. That was not easy for either of us with math/science brains, but she got a 5 in the World History exam which (was) extremely rare in the US as I was later told by another AP teacher who knew the APWH exam graders. All of her gifted peers still in public school got 1s and 2s so we were very proud of that result! The College Bosrd eventually dumbed down the course as so many were failing the exams.
For me, it was a hard 5.5 years. I didn’t have a life between working, creating course content (I got really good at finding lecture material/test content online), grading, tutoring, and of course all the chauffeuring to practice. But it was so worth it in the end when they graduated as successful humans who can speak and write well and are also awesome engineers. They are sooo far ahead of their peers!
But there is so much good material out there that you can find and do it cheaply without buying a lot of curricula. Or join homeschool coops and groups so you can buy used curricula. I used to buy old versions of textbooks being sold cheaply. I liked getting them tested with standardized tests as I could see their weaknesses and knew what to focus on in the next year. That can be a challenge finding someone allowed to administer them though...
So yes, homeschool and your kids will thank you for it!
I homeschooled for middle and high school while working full time. We did it so they could continue with their sport (gymnastics) and not be up until 2 am working on stupid projects and reading 1 book/semester. It was the best thing we did.
My younger thanks me frequently for keeping her out of the toxic middle school drama she would have encountered. They both read lots of classics and I helped my younger address a reading problem (some form of dislexia) that the school had missed (despite me telling them something was off with her reading and comprehension) because she was gifted and ahead of her peers - which helped hide it too well.
As an engineer I learned, created syllabi for, and taught AP Human Geography and AP World History so that the older could get AP credit. That was not easy for either of us with math/science brains, but she got a 5 in the World History exam which (was) extremely rare in the US as I was later told by another AP teacher who knew the APWH exam graders. All of her gifted peers still in public school got 1s and 2s so we were very proud of that result! The College Bosrd eventually dumbed down the course as so many were failing the exams.
For me, it was a hard 5.5 years. I didn’t have a life between working, creating course content (I got really good at finding lecture material/test content online), grading, tutoring, and of course all the chauffeuring to practice. But it was so worth it in the end when they graduated as successful humans who can speak and write well and are also awesome engineers. They are sooo far ahead of their peers!
But there is so much good material out there that you can find and do it cheaply without buying a lot of curricula. Or join homeschool coops and groups so you can buy used curricula. I used to buy old versions of textbooks being sold cheaply. I liked getting them tested with standardized tests as I could see their weaknesses and knew what to focus on in the next year. That can be a challenge finding someone allowed to administer them though...
So yes, homeschool and your kids will thank you for it!