Just wanted to let all the avid readers of our blog know that our computer is having some issues right now, so any truly interesting posts complete with pictures will be postponed until said computer is working correctly. In the meantime, I'll be posting boring stuff from the office computer here at the storage units. "Why not use your lap-top?" You may ask. I'll tell you why. It's broken too! It seems like when it rains, it pours. I just wish it would pour $100 bills instead of broken computers and broken cars.
As long as I'm here, I might as well pose a question that I've been giving a great deal of thought to lately, and I'd like to get some feedback from other people. The proposal is:
Home School? or Public School?
I was going to write my thoughts about it here, but I think I'll hold back so that I have the least amount of influence on your opinion. I know that we are at least 4 years away from school for Miles and other kids, but I'd like to have a plan in place. I would really love to get everyone's honest opinion. I think it will help me a great deal make this very important decision.
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now Rach, you already know that I'm biased :) But I'll give you my opinion anyways.
Homeschool is an opportunity to teach Miles what YOU want him to learn!
Its also a great way to keep learning and growing yourself! I am always blown away by how much my mom enjoys their homeschool studies, far more than the kids :)
You being a graduate in education shouldn't feel overwhelmed . . . except that it lasts a long time. But even if you are, I have complete confidence in your abilities.
Now, there are some great advantages of going to public school, perhaps Miles will need the social life (like his father). Perhaps he will need a different teacher so that he will actually focus on his studies (nothing against you Rachel) ? It will become more apparent what Miles needs as he gets closer to that age. But why not give both a try and see? I know that I'm gonna try my best to do it. good thing we have a good mentor, and can steal a lot of what she's worked years to accomplish (mom).
anyways, good luck with your decision!
I think both have their pros and cons. I was heavily thinking about homeschool for a while (since we heard the public schools here were so bad) until a friend of mine told me that kids can excel just as much at public school if YOU give the right emphasis on their studies and communicate with them about what they learn and what their friends might be telling them. I love spending time with Raleigh every day and I feel like we could learn a lot together if I homeschooled. Well, at least there's 4 years left to decide these things, sheesh!
it depends on the kid. and the public school. pray about it.
Kelly and I were talking about this the other day and we don't even have kids!
I certainly look up to my Aunt Christy and would love to be as involved in and deliberate about my kids education as she has been.
But I've also wondered if there wasn't something unique about their corner of the world in Bluffdale. Between the Clarks, Garners and a few other neighbors there were SO MANY kids and so much going on. Not to mention all the Bluffdale Arts Council plays--- I've wondered if that environment provided social opportunities and independance in a way that I could never re-create in Las Vegas. (If we're here at that time.)
It's a question I'm sure I will come back to down the road.
Hey Rachel,
I noticed you have a blog when I was looking at Katie's and I thought I could give you some imput. I was homeschooled for a few years and I hated it! I think it can be great for younger children depending on the situation, but I was older and I hated it so much. It made me despise my mother and when I went back to public school I was so behind in math and science. It is hard to labs and things like that at home. Also, I really wanted to participate in sports, music, and other things and there wasn't much opportunity for homeschooled kids to do stuff like that. But, I have a few friends who were homeschooled when they were younger and it was a really positive experience for them.
I love reading everyone's comments about it. I don't really have that strong of opinion either way. Matt asked me once if we would ever home school. I told him maybe if we felt the schools were bad enough and/or if we lived in a bad area. Anyway, I was just thinking, you would do such a great job if you did decide to home school your kids. Do you want to teach mine too? :) By the way, I really miss seeing you everyday. AND...Lily was wondering when Mi-mles is coming over. I still want to watch him. I need to call you.
If you're going to homeschool might I suggest that you start from the very beginning. My mom decided to try it with me after I had already experienced public school and so I hated it and missed my friends. Needless to say, the homeschool phase didn't last long in our house.
Well when that money cloud pours on you, please send it my way!
I have the same question always running through my head due to the fact that I live in South Carolina, where they are rated 2nd worst for public schools in America. Its a ways away and hopefully by then I will not live here, but the thought that my child will be negelected from a good education scares me. However I dont want to neglect him from a social life either. Its definately a tough one.
For me as a child part of the excitement at the beginning of each school year was finding out who my teachers were going to be. Same for you kids. Some teachers are great, and some not so great. And perhaps in some areas we would have been better off home schooled. But we can learn something valuable from everyone if we apply ourselves. If nothing else we learn to relate to different personalities and styles of teaching.
I hesitate to admit that as good as they were, and as much as I loved them, I needed the break from my children, and was happy to send them off for a few hours each day to let someone more qualified than myself teach them things I couldn't.
But I'm NOT putting down home schooling by any means! Especially if the public schools in your area don't measure up, and especially the way Christy does it. With your patience, training and background you would be the perfect home schooler.
I don't read comments very often, but thought this one might be interesting, which it is. I certainly don't want to give a discourse on the pros and cons of homeschooling, but thought a life time of experience might bear some weight.
Everyone who has made a comment has addressed important issues that you need to think about when making the decision to homeschool. Certainly, homeschooling isn't for everyone. But I would be remiss if I didn't thank my Heavenly Father for every single day He has given me to be with my children, struggle and learn with them. My eyes, heart and mind have been opened to the wonders of our Heavenly Father's magnificent creations and that has happened with my children right beside me. I have had unhurried time to teach my children how to cook, garden, do laundry, preserve food, sew, photograph, work on scouts and so many other needed life skills. What David and I couldn't provide we always researched outside resources to provide that need. Homeschooling isn't defined as doing it alone in your own home. If your child needs social interaction you find a venue where that need can be met. In our home each child is prayed about continually and interviewed frequently to make sure we are headed in the right direction for that child. Every minute of homeschool is not wonderful, it would be an untruth to portray it as such. But the truth of the matter is I wouldn't trade if for anything in this world. To learn and grow with my children has been an amazing journey. It has connected us in a way that is most unique and cherished. It has helped me understand and know my children in a very intimate way.
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