Comments on: What did your mom say when you told her about home schooling?

By: ^^this is my sex face^^

^^this is my sex face^^ — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:34:13 +0000

“WHAAAAT?!?!?!!?”

and then after spending like 10 minutes convincing her i was serious and would do my work she said “okay… if you think thats what you should do…”

but shes fine with it now ^^this is my sex face^^

By: K

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:10 +0000

Wow. Only quitters and losers stand up for themselves and refuse to subject themselves to abuse day after day after day. Ask any battered women’s shelter. Only losers try to get out of bad situations. They should shut up and toughen up, learn how to take a good right hook. Learn how to keep a frickin’ ice pack on hand. Pussies.

Glad I wasn’t a quitter or a loser. I stayed in public school. Sure, I was miserable, I had only one friend, I was a “cutter” by 8th grade, I was suicidal throughout high school and now in my 30s I’m socially crippled because I don’t trust anyone and get paranoid anytime anyone nearby laughs. I immediately assume they’re laughing at me. But I hung tough through school, and I got that GREAT socialization. So worth it, don’t you think?

Probably explains why my friend and I are both homeschooling our kids, and have from the outset.

My own mom (grandma #1) was all for it and two years later, still is.

Hubby’s mom (grandma #2) was a school teacher all her life, and she was horrified. She won’t say much to us about it, other than the occasional comment about “as soon as he’s in regular school.”

From adults, the most common concerns are the almighty “socialization.” They have this idea that if you don’t go to school, you turn into the Unabomber. I’m not sure why this is…many of the country’s Founding Fathers were homeschooled (Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson) and many contemporary figures (Venus and Serena Williams, Alan Alda, Christina Aguilera, Whoopi Goldberg, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Sandra Day O’Connor) were all homeschooled. As were Albert Einstein and Blaise Pascal, Pierre Curie, and Booker T. Washington…but perhaps our resident manly-man feels that distinguished careers in science puts you in the wimpy “I-Ain’t-Got-No-Friends” category.

Strangely enough, all of the Presidents whose images are carved onto Mt. Rushmore were homeschooled. Losers.

A really good place to start might be to pick up the book, “The Teenage Liberation Handbook.” It has a few chapters dedicated to convincing the parents that this won’t ruin your life. K

By: flyswimmer

flyswimmer — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:59 +0000

I begged my Mom because I had an awful teacher which she knew was awful that wouldn’t listen to me. I couldn’t change schools because at the time my state didn’t let kids go to other schools they werent assigned to. It was my dad that hated it. He really resented me until one of the girls in my class was expelled for sending death threats in the 5th grade. flyswimmer

By: hsmomlovinit

hsmomlovinit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:43:29 +0000

Well, I am the mom…and when my (then) 6yo begged me to homeschool, I went through the whole range of thoughts. When he promised to clean his AND my room every day in exchange, I put serious thoughts into it.
A week before he came home asking, I knew people who homeschooled and respected them; my feelings however, were along the line of “it’s a great idea and all, but y’all are nuts!” When I really started considering it, I was scared witless. I tried to talk with my son’s teacher and administrators (and saw why he was so miserable). I offered to send enrichment work for him (he was bored out of his mind). When that didn’t work, I looked into the legalities and logistics of homeschooling and found out it isn’t nearly as difficult (or odd) as I thought.

The following school day, I taught my son how to daydream without getting caught and promised him it would be his last day of classroom school. I spent the morning observing a homeschooling family and picking their brains, and the afternoon picking out curriculum at the local teacher supply store. When I picked my son up from school, we went to the bookstore and I let him pick out some books he wanted to work with “for fun”, and the next day we started homeschooling.

MY mom, on the other hand, asked me if we were joining a hippie commune in Berkeley and swore up and down that I was going to psychologically scar him for life. He’s now in 9th grade and she’s checking out colleges for him. hsmomlovinit

By: ♥Cassie♥

♥Cassie♥ — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:56:46 +0000

my mom was ready to sign the papers then she freaked out all of the sudden because she thought i wouldn’t get any socialization.
so we made an agreement about some things i have to do to stay social.
we’re (me, my little sister, and my mom) are volunteering at an animal shelter once a week and a nursing home once a week. i want to take pottery classes at my YMCA. i’m going to invite friends over once a week. i’m working on finding a home schooling or cyber schooling group. i actually contacted my school (21cccs.org) to see if they could help me find kids that are enrolled in the school in my area.
there are tons of ways to stay social (even within your school- there are field trips), so if that is a concern that your grandparents have, compromise. you can discuss activities that you’re going to do to stay social. make a schedule. and agree that if you don’t do them then you’re going back to public school.
staying social is important- you’ll be more depressed if you isolate yourself. you have to understand why your grandparents might worry if you tell them that you’re going to do cyber school- socialization is a big part of high school and with cyber school you have to find ways outside of school to get it. stay calm when you guys talk- if you get angry and throw a fit you will seem immature.
hope everything works out ♥Cassie♥

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:02:00 +0000

i didn’t consider it, but my friend did,
and her mom said she can be if that’s what she wants.
her mom said that she might get depressed from lack of socialism, social events sometimes make people happier, like they’re not total losers. Allison

By: ChrisP.Bacon

ChrisP.Bacon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:57:40 +0000

DO NOT do cyberschool. It is not worth it because colleges will look at you as someone who was a quitter. Unless you have a really good reason you should not drop out of regular school. My neighbor couldn’t get into any colleges this year because the colleges do not recognize cyberdegrees. ChrisP.Bacon

By: ♫♫C♫♫

♫♫C♫♫ — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:34:59 +0000

i was gonna but then i thought about it…you woodnt have the same friends and it wood be so boring ♫♫C♫♫

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:43:53 +0000

it’s for quitters who can’t hack it in the real world

are you going to study hard to get into a “home college” so you can get yourself a good “home job”?

you need to leave the nest sooner or later

the other kids aren’t THAT mean. Kevin