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Yay! My mom
Yay! My mom is beginning to consider homeschooling me. I've always been public-schooled, but wished that I could try homeschooling for various reasons. It was never a possibility, though, until now! I discovered that it isn't actually as time-consuming as we'd assumed it was (for her, I mean. For me there's no reason I can think of for it to take longer, but she has a job, as does my dad, so they can't just sit for 7 and 1/2 hours each weekday teaching.), so ever since then I've been talking a bit about it, and now there's actually a chance that I might be able to do it! Possibly. At any rate, she's seriously looking into it and doing research about it (I wonder if I picked up that habit from her?), which is a good sign. And I know that if I'm homeschooled, I'll still be able to participate in the spelling bee and take the PSAT, so that means I don't have to start having doubts about it, which is good, too, of course... Anyway, I made this thread because I'm happy and I want to make the possibility official (which I always do with things by telling someone who doesn't really have anything to do with the situation), and because I'm glad. And because I thought I should thank ML for the suggestion of muttering about an educational experience. It works, especially when the thing being discussed (i.e., my school) was specifically created to promote education and doesn't actually end up making much of a difference at all. Yay!
submitted by Ima
(July 17, 2010 - 5:32 pm)
(July 17, 2010 - 5:32 pm)
Lol, you know I'm always glad to help with evil plots. :) Let us know if it works out; you sound really excited.
(July 18, 2010 - 7:05 am)
That's awesome! Homeschooling isn't always peaches and cream, but when you homeschool you have chances to do as such things you can't do when you are in a public or private school:
-Volunteer work during the week
-Taking classes at a college (when you get to high school!!)
-Having classes with all age ranges, not just kids your own age
-Working with adults
-Going places during the day and not being cooped up in a building all day
-Getting to know your family better
-Having the world as your classroom (isn't it funny that the stereotypical image of a homeschooler is "sheltered" person?)
-And many other things
Of course, school has many advantages too. Is your school district one that allows homeschoolers to take classes and extra curriculars at the school? Luckily ours is very homeschooler friendly, and my brother and I have taken many classes there.
(July 19, 2010 - 5:01 pm)
I'd be able to do some of the activities, but not all. For example, I'm ableto enter the spelling bee (as I said before), but not audition for a certain choir... School does have many advantages, though, of course. Unfortunately, though, they seem to be declining so much it just doesn't seem worth it, and I'd rather quit. until high school, anyway. I could just change schools now, I suppose, but it's a bit hard to do that in my district.
(July 19, 2010 - 11:17 pm)
Are you homeschooled Amy G.?? I am and the things you listed above are alot of things we do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 20, 2010 - 4:14 pm)
Ima, that's awesome!!! :) My siblings and I have been homeschooled all of our lives, we love it. :)
(July 20, 2010 - 9:51 am)
Awesome Ima!!!!! I was public schooled for a year because my mom couldn't homeschool us!!! But YAY!! I am gonna be homeschooled again!!!!
Here are some thigs I like and dislike about homeschooling that you may want to consider!!
Like:
Don't have to get up so early (like in public school)
Don't have to take the TAKS test!!! (BTW, I made a 100 on all the TAKS tests I took (math reading))
Can go to school in pj's (only sometimes if I'm sick)
Can be alittle late without a tardy
Much easier!!
Very little to no distractions
One on One time with mom
NO CAFATERIA FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!
Don't gat in so much trouble with kkids at school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get to do fun school subjects, not just math, reading, english, science, and social studdies!!!!
Dislikes:
Don't get to see public school friends everyday!!! Infact hardly get to see them!!
Ima I hope you like being homechooled (if you get too)!!! It is soooo great not to get in so much trouble because of the kids at school!! You will probably like that!!! No tardies!!! It is so awesome being homeschooled!!!!
(July 20, 2010 - 4:12 pm)
Oh, yes, I hate tardies. I'm extremely slow, so I somehow got so many I was nearly given detention. Many times. And only for the tardies. But I wasn't! Ever! Luckily.
As for school lunches... Ha. I don't think I've had a single one since 5th grade anyway, and probably won't at least until high school (even if I can be homeschooled, it'll probably just be for middle school, but I don't mind because there are more advantages in public high school than in middle school where I live), if even then. I'm vegetarian, extremely allergic to all dairy and egg products (so vegan, basically), and paranoid about breaking my braces (because they do keep breaking... or they did... for a while...), and I never really had many options. I just brought a sandwich each day...
(July 20, 2010 - 7:12 pm)
Yeah I really hate tardies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last year at school I got a tardie almost everyday and everyday I was late!!
(July 22, 2010 - 1:28 pm)
Me, too. I suppose the 'nearly got detention several times' was an understatement; actually, I very nearly got detention for tardies just about every week, because at my school, well, if you get 4 in a week, you get detention. I somehow managed to get enough passes to remove tardies for good behavior (and answering questions), though, that I could slither out of it. Every time. I was lucky...
(July 23, 2010 - 2:56 am)
Yay!!!
My parents have finally decided that they will homeschool me, which is excellent and quite amazing, really, because my dad had really been against it in the beginning. And according to the scores on a test I'm taking to see which curriculum would work best for me, I can probably skip 7th grade! YAY! This is really exciting, because if you want to skip a grade in public school where I live, you have to take 2 tests per subject and get at least 90 on each. This way it's much easier; as long as I get at least 70 on everything I pass. 70 is very easy, even on 7th grade material, even though I haven't actually started 7th grade yet. And as some may remember, I did try to skip 6th grade once. Since I was public schooled, it didn't quite work. (And they couldn't even tell me whether it had or not until school had been going on for 2 weeks already. It would've been very difficult if I had gotten As on everything, because I'd have to start it 2 weeks late. ).
So YAY! No more listening to teachers go on and on about things I taught myself years ago and then calling me argumentative if I try to ask questions about it to make it slightly more interesting! I think I just might start early, just because I'm extremely excited...
(August 7, 2010 - 1:12 pm)
Wait, never mind! We changed our mind. I'm actually going to a school that's technically a public school, but it's online, so I can access it from home whenever I feel like it. It seems like exactly what I need, actually! It provides everything I need educationally much better than any school I've been at before, and it has a multitude of wonderful-sounding clubs and electives (I might be able to take Latin and Psychology, in addition to theatre and debate at some other place!), and it comes with a free laptop! With Internet access! To keep for the entire school year! They're giving it out so that everyone can do their lessons without starting arguments with family members over computer usage, I suppose, or, alternatively, using everyone else's frequent computer activity and subsequent lack of time as an excuse not to participate in school, but really it can be used for anything! I just hope it has MS Word or something similar; an entire computer to myself would make NaNo much easier. But I'm extremely excited, because everything seems wonderful, and I hope it's as great as it sounds!
(August 11, 2010 - 12:55 pm)