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Not yet, but I like the idea. There are two things stopping us from pulling the trigger at the moment: Socialization. For us, this goes beyond the normal bit
by jasonkester 8y ago
Not yet, but I like the idea. There are two things stopping us from pulling the trigger at the moment:
Socialization. For us, this goes beyond the normal bit where your kids don't spend as much time interacting with other kids and learning how to live in a society. We live in France, so the local village school is the perfect chance to toss the kids in head first to a new language. Both are swimming nicely, so it'd be a shame to pull them out and lose that before they're fluent for life.
Stigma. In the US, it seems that homeschooling is what crazy bible people do to shelter their kids from the real world. I don't want to set our kids up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves to everybody they ever talk to about education.
But the upsides are pretty tempting. Work-wise, I've been 100% remote for a long time, so the only thing keeping us from traveling the world instead of living in a house is having the kids in school. I expect we'll try taking the kids out for an entire year before long and booking a one-way flight, just to see how well it works...
- a-saleh 8y agoFew friends have experienced the "skip some school and live somewhere abroad with their family" when they were younger. It seemed to me that a full year out of four was fine, but more frequent travels could be distruptive.
- PhaedrusV 8y agoI'm 34, and I think the number of conversations I've had where homeschooling came up could be counted on 2 hands, and all were entirely voluntary on my part. I was homeschooled 1st-12th. Any sense of not fitting in was gone by sophomore year of college, and I hear it's pretty normal for freshman to feel that way.