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I am considering homeschooling. My main motivation is that I really hated school and so did my wife. And I didn't learn much after 6th grade. Most of the school

by logn 12y ago

I am considering homeschooling. My main motivation is that I really hated school and so did my wife. And I didn't learn much after 6th grade. Most of the school work I did was a waste of time. I don't want to waste anyone's time or mine (even though I'll end up spending more time). And I think I can offer a better education. It's nothing to do with values, intellectual curiosity, or schools being rotten to the core. I think schools can be fixed, but they're dysfunctional currently.

firebones 12y ago
I absolutely don't want to invalidate your goal or desire, but I would ask, knowing what you know now, was there anything you wish you could have done differently after sixth grade that would have resulted in a better outcome for you and your wife (short of total avoidance)? I bring this up because I've seen people embrace homeschooling (with mixed results) as a way to right perceived wrongs in their own childhoods. I sometimes wonder whether their experiences might be better applied in teaching their kids the lessons learned from their time in a school system rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just avoiding the system altogether. After all, you survived and ended up in a position to make and have this choice for your kids...so all was not lost.
- logn 12y ago
  I'm not sure what I could have done differently since my parents put me in some of the better private schools. I mostly earned A's and tried to make the most of classes. The only classes that seemed productive were math and a grammar class in 7th grade. In everything else I was bogged down in busy work and rote memorization. My wife and I have discussed sending our kid to school through about 5th grade or so and then doing home school. We also are open to a vocational high school. I guess high school is ultimately the kid's choice. Part of the problem with me was that I was smart and didn't really find classes interesting or challenging until college. But even if I were not as smart, I probably just would have fallen behind and disliked it too.

by logn 12y ago

firebones 12y ago

I absolutely don't want to invalidate your goal or desire, but I would ask, knowing what you know now, was there anything you wish you could have done differently after sixth grade that would have resulted in a better outcome for you and your wife (short of total avoidance)? I bring this up because I've seen people embrace homeschooling (with mixed results) as a way to right perceived wrongs in their own childhoods. I sometimes wonder whether their experiences might be better applied in teaching their kids the lessons learned from their time in a school system rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just avoiding the system altogether. After all, you survived and ended up in a position to make and have this choice for your kids...so all was not lost.

logn 12y ago
I'm not sure what I could have done differently since my parents put me in some of the better private schools. I mostly earned A's and tried to make the most of classes. The only classes that seemed productive were math and a grammar class in 7th grade. In everything else I was bogged down in busy work and rote memorization. My wife and I have discussed sending our kid to school through about 5th grade or so and then doing home school. We also are open to a vocational high school. I guess high school is ultimately the kid's choice. Part of the problem with me was that I was smart and didn't really find classes interesting or challenging until college. But even if I were not as smart, I probably just would have fallen behind and disliked it too.