In case you were on the fence about homeschool
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Go camping for 1 month a year at KOAs around the country. Let your children go to the playground. They will have it organized in 5 minutes and everyone will be playing "their game". I mean that's what we did with our homeschooled children. Now they run circles around all the BA and BS idiots they work with who are on Ativan, Buspar and Zoloft, are always late to work, call in sick and have anxiety attacks when customers come in without a face mask.
Or you can continue to buy into the "homeschooled children are not social-ized" myth. Of course they are not socialized. (aka-indoctrinated) But social, amazing and a wide peer group (2 months to 99 years) and confident, informed, logical, ....... yeah Def worry about socializing.
We homeschooled all 4 of our kids from kindergarten through high school. We used the Robinson Curriculum. Our kids weren't too fond of it at the time, however now they love it, and are so appreciative that we used it. Robinson doesn't have math, so we used Saxon Math. Whenever I get the question about 'socialization' from some ill informed concerned adult, I tell them, I can take my kids behind the wood shed and teach them all the curse word they will learn in school. You should see the looks-hilarious.
I took the kids to work for one of those 'take your kids to work days'. My kids were 6, 8, and 10. I got called into a meeting so I asked one of the "concerned adults' to keep an eye on the kids. I expected to be a few minutes and it became 30 minutes. When I got back, my 3 kids were having full conversations with 2 adult ladies. They ladies were convinced my kids were better socialized than many of the adults they worked with.
Home schooling is awesome!
That sounds awesome. Camping, leadership skills, and success as grown ups.
I'm getting started researching local home school options and wanted to get some perspective from those with experience.
What I’m skeptical about are the more advanced high school classes. No discussions about novels, etc.
Or even more, science. No dissection, lab work, etc. A science teacher walking you through the details of an experiment to demonstrate entropy and enthalpy can’t be reproduced with self taught YouTube videos.
Home Science Tools has all your lab needs. Once I taught a dissection class at my homeschool co-op. We did 11 species.
There was also a hands on Shakespeare class taught by an Oxford PhD who studied at the Globe Theater. Reading and discussing literature is what we do as a family.
Many homeschool kids just do dual enrollment for the last two years. Go to a local community college and take Chemistry, Literature, etc.
Oh, and the floor of the kids bedrooms demonstrates entropy pretty well if you ask me!