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Honest. Quirky. Real. Stereotype-smashing humor for homeschooling families.Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:12:33 +0000
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By: Wendy Hilton
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Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:12:33 +0000https://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/?p=44281#comment-143701In reply to Lisa.
You’re correct. There is no one solution that fits every student. Each family must do what’s best for the people in that family.
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By: Lisa
https://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/homeschoolers-and-hermits/#comment-143462
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 04:15:05 +0000https://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/?p=44281#comment-143462No matter how much social activities we schedule in (as homeschooling parents) some children just won’t get enough. If you ask my now adult daughter, she will say that there was NO way homeschooling could provide enough to prepare her for the social aspect of high school, which is where she wanted to go after homeschooling since pre-school. She was in a school district homeschool (no restrictions to what we taught or used to teach, it was unaccredited at the time) with many classes run by parents, in the local school band, 4-H, etc. I may be stereotyping here, but homeschooled students stick out as more mature, and seem to get along much better with adults. Therefore, they don’t always “fit in” if they later attend public classroom schools.
When people would ask if I thought homeschooling was “better” than the classroom settings, I would tell them, “not better, different.” It is great for some kids, but not for all.
My late mother-in-law didn’t like the idea when we started with a 7th grade son. A few years later she asked, “Are you still going to homeschool?” My late husband told her, “No,” just to be ornery! She relied, “Good.” Ha! It may have literally saved my oldest son’s life to homeschool him and let him take college courses in middle school.
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