I have to say, when we first had issues with my child's teacher, my wife mentioned homeschooling and my knee jerk reaction was 'No way in hell'. At that point I had only known like 3 people who were home schooled and they were all what I would consider 'weird'.
But the more research I did, the more I talked to people, the more I realized that while those 'weird' people might be the stereotypical home schoolers, they are not the majority. I found out that a lot of people I knew and respected were home schooled for all or part of their childhood. Now, I would have it no other way. I think we have the perfect life. I work from home, my wife does not need to work (to pull in a paycheck) and we homeschool. No mater how busy any of our days get, we still see each other every day and eat every meal together. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Ian Skinner <h...@ilsweb.com> wrote: > > On 4/15/2010 2:15 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: >> That is exactly my point Ian. >> >> Eric >> > > No, I'm afraid you missed the point. My point was that *I* could not > home school. Don't have the time, don't have the aptitude. > > But I also *recognize* that I am a lucky parent. Through no effort in > my part, I just happened to be living in the foot print of a good school > when our children where born. My oldest is advance, my youngest is > challenged. They both have had great teachers to date. They both have > received great support and encouragement from the schools system so that > neither has been held back. The grade school is right across the street > and is a 'residential' school, meaning there is no busing. It only > servers the immediate neighborhood in walking distance around the > school. Thus small class sizes and plenty of parental participation. > > The youngest in under an IEP and receives significant help from that > program. The oldest was advanced to the 1st grad math program when he > had completed the kindergarten level work and was getting bored. He is > now in a Charter School that strongly embraces the arts. *Creative > Connections Arts Academy* incorporates art into his academic > curriculum. And I count myself lucky that this school is within walking > distance of our home as well. > > But I know all of that is quite lucky on my part. I live within range > of great public schools so that I don't have to consider home and|or > private schooling. But if all of the above was not true, I would be! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
