So the hard part is over–you’ve chosen to homeschool. Many people have different ideas on how long a child should stay at home. I know the conversation comes up regularly in our household and we may be choosing a private school setting in the future. What’s your ‘game plan’? Does it change with the seasons as our’s does?
We’re homeschoolers for LIFE! There is no going back!
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Misty (elvisgirl) Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I’m with you Michelle. Homeschooling for life! (Us grownups, too!)
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We’re just starting preschool this year, but our plan is to homeschool all the way through.
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If you had asked me this question in the beginning of our homeschool years, I might have had a different answer. Now that we are down to 3 ‘students’ and 5 years, my answer is a definitive yes we will continue to homeschool.
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My girls have always played sports and ironically the boys have not been interested. They play softball with the high school team and enjoy it very much.
We attempted a small co-op this year, but I’m not going to pursue that again.
To actually answer the question, my plans for homeschooling are to continue till the last student graduates. I am enrolling this year in college to continue my education degree. Once the kids graduate I want to be able to help other homeschoolers by doing evaluations, writing curriculums, and various other things.
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When we began homeschooling back in the olden days, we’d tell people we were taking it a year at a time. It seemed to be an acceptable answer for what looked like a radical way to teach our children back then. Indeed, we did take it a year at a time often stumbling through some tough years for our family, but it has proven to be an awesome choice for our family and plans are to continue until they’ve all graduated.
I do, however, think it is an individual choice for each family to weigh on a yearly basis. It may not always be a perfect educational fit depending upon various factors. Covering those times with prayer and using discernment is important when making those decisions.
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After spending several years in public and private school (and a fortune at one particular private school) we are now homeschoolers for life! I never thought I’d homeschool, and now I wish I had done so all along!
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We will be graduating our first next year, so unless things change radically, we plan to be in it all the way through with the younger ones, as well. We are blessed to be in a huge homeschooling community, and I think that makes all the difference for high school.
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I homeschool my grandchildren. I’d like to say that I will complete the task (through graduation). We will see what the Lord has in mind. If I “finish” the job, I will be 80 years old at the last graduation. Hmmm!! I just cannot promise more than one year at a time!
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I plan to homeschool through high school.
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We’re just starting out homeschooling our kindergartner this year (she’s the oldest of three, so it’s more like damage-control with the 17 mo old, “I’m doing school, too!” with the 3.5 yr old and then “school” with the eldest) and I’ve maintained since we made the decision to homeschool that we’d take it one year at a time. I realized that it might not always be the best thing for us, and that school might be in our future. At a Classical Conversations Practicum this month, I heard something that has really got me thinking about that approach. One woman shared with us that she looks at homeschooling the same way she does marriage: for life. There are many reasons to do this, but the practical one that applies to me, I think, is that if I’m only in “while the going’s good” then am I really whole-heartedly educating my kids? What kind of example is that setting? Even if I’m not the teacher in front of their classroom, I will always be instilling that lifelong learning ethic. And in that way, I’m definitely a “homeschooler for life.” Thus, my answer to the question “how long do you plan to homeschool?” is evolving. I think I’ll come out on the side of being in it for the long haul, but I haven’t quite figured out how to word that yet.
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I NEVER thought I’d be a homeschooling mother. Heck, there were times in my life when I NEVER thought I’d have children! Life is nothing if not ever changing!
So here we are, entering our fifth year as a homeschooling family (if you don’t count those first five years of life). We’re taking it “one year at a time,” though we have no plans to send our kids off to school. As noted, however, life brings changes of the most unexpected kind, so we keep up with state standards (I check them online before we begin our “school year,” but we don’t do standardized tests; I can see whether or not they get it). Otherwise, I follow our girls’ interests.
I was a public school kid involved in music and sports. Unfortunately, in our community, musical GROUPS for kids are non-existent except in some of the schools. Our girls take private music lessons, but are unlikely to get the group instrumental performance opportunity until much later in their musical career. (A city about an hour’s drive from us offers a youth symphony for advanced musicians ages 12 and up.) Sports, however, offer plenty of venues here. Most high-performing high school athletes have at some point also played club sports. And while the feeling of playing for one’s school can be wonderful, so can playing for your club team, so I don’t see athletics as a compelling reason to head back to the brick-n-mortar program.
This year, the girls are 6 and 9. We’ll enjoy the simplicity of the age.
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