Minerva
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I recently moved from the city to the country. The schools being only one of the MYRIAD of reasons I wanted to raise my kids in a more rural environment. Well now that I have moved, I have realized that things are just bad everywhere. I am considering homeschool for my children at some point, I am just not sure at what point exaclty. I feel that they need a basis of people interaction and independence in order to learn things aside from your basic curriculum and school is a good place to build that foundation, but at what point should I remove them?
I have this thought: I would like to take them out and homeschool them in the 6th through the 8th grade, then let them have the option to attend high school.
That way they have 3 good impressionable years in which I could teach them a lot, and I feel that middle school is a very troubling time for children these days, I think that many self esteem and anger issues arise at this point in a childs life and I would like to guide my children through that myself. Subsequently, going into the 9th grade they would be far ahead in their studies and having only had a 3 years hiatus, would not feel absurdly uncomfortable in the normal public school environment. High school can be very important for kids, they learn alot aout themselves in that time. I dont know, any thoughts on this...Oh, My son is 8, my daughter is 7, and then I have a 19month old boy as well.
I have this thought: I would like to take them out and homeschool them in the 6th through the 8th grade, then let them have the option to attend high school.
That way they have 3 good impressionable years in which I could teach them a lot, and I feel that middle school is a very troubling time for children these days, I think that many self esteem and anger issues arise at this point in a childs life and I would like to guide my children through that myself. Subsequently, going into the 9th grade they would be far ahead in their studies and having only had a 3 years hiatus, would not feel absurdly uncomfortable in the normal public school environment. High school can be very important for kids, they learn alot aout themselves in that time. I dont know, any thoughts on this...Oh, My son is 8, my daughter is 7, and then I have a 19month old boy as well.