I’m all for homeschooling if it will work for the kids- however I have maybe 2 out of 6 kids it would work with. I’ve spent the last couple years being berated by some from the homeschool group. Seeing as though I have 3 in high school, one in middle one about to enter middle and my youngest is special needs my kids are used to it. I’ve said many times I absolutely can not give my sped son what his school can - my son is completely non-verbal and severely developmentally delayed (9 but developmentally similar to a toddler). If I thought I could provide better for him I would but when schools shut down he regressed, stopped using the bathroom. I could probably write a book on why I’m not homeschooling but my husband and I both feel at this time we would be doing a disservice to our kids. They will have to work and live in this world but we ingrained in them to use critical thinking, and all three of my high schoolers know exactly what’s going on. We’ve so far managed to weather the public school, getting whatever benefit we can while avoiding letting them indoctrinate my kids. We weighted the pros and cons and ultimately decided to stick with it. Many people in my neighborhood are paying for private and getting the same woke indoctrination. Parents can be the biggest and best or worse influence on their kids, we need to do the job of parents but it doesn’t mean we have to hide our kids from the world. I try to protect them as much as I can without making them naive. I was sheltered to the point of being naive at 18 entering the world. I won’t let that happen to my kids. That being said- if I had kids entering kindergarten I would absolutely homeschool- my kids missed a lot of the worse stuff and I didn’t realize how bad it was till we were so far in.
I’m all for homeschooling if it will work for the kids- however I have maybe 2 out of 6 kids it would work with. I’ve spent the last couple years being berated by some from the homeschool group. Seeing as though I have 3 in high school, one in middle one about to enter middle and my youngest is special needs my kids are used to it. I’ve said many times I absolutely can not give my sped son what his school can - my son is completely non-verbal and severely developmentally delayed (9 but developmentally similar to a toddler). If I thought I could provide better for him I would but when schools shut down he regressed, stopped using the bathroom. I could probably write a book on why I’m not homeschooling but my husband and I both feel at this time we would be doing a disservice to our kids. They will have to work and live in this world but we ingrained in them to use critical thinking, and all three of my high schoolers know exactly what’s going on. We’ve so far managed to weather the public school, getting whatever benefit we can while avoiding letting them indoctrinate my kids. We weighted the pros and cons and ultimately decided to stick with it. Many people in my neighborhood are paying for private and getting the same woke indoctrination. Parents can be the biggest and best or worse influence on their kids, we need to do the job of parents but it doesn’t mean we have to hide our kids from the world. I try to protect them as much as I can without making them naive. I was sheltered to the point of being naive at 18 entering the world. I won’t let that happen to my kids. That being said- if I had kids entering kindergarten I would absolutely homeschool- my kids missed a lot of the worse stuff and I didn’t realize how bad it was till we were so far in.