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Old 08-03-08, 01:27 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Thinking of homeschooling
Ya since I have this next school year to get all of my info together and get with the lady who's starting it up and all I plan to see what it will be all about ahead of time, to make sure it will be a right choice, and see what, if at all, the state has to say about it.
One thing I am thinking here about Amanda and Becah is that since they have had a lot of social issues and pressures that we never dealt with in elementary school they are already hashing out and have been. Cliques, popularity, boys, the brand of clothes, their style, what organizations they do, who they talk to. Since 2nd grade! Every single year it's been the movie Mean Girls. THey have been to several schools in the last few years and Texas and Calif-both the same. I mean they even go so far as to call out a girl who isn't a girly girl or one who is not popular and close with a friend-lesbian. It's just disgusting how cruel kids are to one another. My girls come home and it's the same thing with each other. Then I hear about how they heard it from so and so and then I talk to the teachers and they confirm that this and that is going on. It's too much. So how are they supposed to be getting the education when all of this is going on every day? With Becah it's not so much of the your in/your out now fight for your spot back popular thing. It's more she has one or two friends and one is nice and one isn't and she acts back and forth and she is scared to death of bullies. She is embarassed and afraid of anything that will draw attention to her because she wants to stay so low key. I don't know if anything happened in the past other than the few incidents I knew about with some boys in like 2nd grade and then they weren't all that bad to her. So I was thinking that maybe just maybe homeschool them and then doing the drama, soccer, probably girl scouts again, and the mom's group might give them a "safer" environment. It won't matter if they are in pajamas doing their schoolwork or are having a bad day. Their's noone to compete with socially so they can have more fun with learning and their after school activities. If they can build up their minds and not worry about outside interference anymore and have mostly positive surroundings then I am hoping and thinking that this might be all of the ammunition they need to develop a high self esteem, self confidence, and a better moral compass. If they don't have others trying to influence them as much as they get in school, and instead have a family environment then when they get to high school and I will most likely have them all go to high school, I think they'll actually do better with their studies and make better choices for friends and not care so much what anyone else thinks. Right now is the age that is crucial for that. In the next year or so Amanda is going to decide who to be more loyal to: friends or mom. I need more in my corner. She's a great kid away from all of that drama. I was concerned that keeping them home would hinder their social development in a public school setting but the charter classes, and drama class at the school next door is really all she needs to keep up with those skills. At least I really hope. We'll see how next year goes. And the school I wanted them to go to for High School is actually a highly academic school. I didn't even know that until recently! How perfect is that.
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