Anyone here homeschool their kids to get away from all the Woke/Commie bullshit?

We have our oldest son now toward the end of his first year being homeschooled and he's doing really well. I'd bet you if he tested against any local public schoolkid right now, he'd be a grade or more ahead of them.

It's EXPLODING here in Pennsylvania. My wife helps manage a homeschool "Co-Op" where each Wednesday about 200 kids meet in a local large church facility to play together, to have classes together, to eat lunch together and socialize etc.

It's gotten to the point where the Co-Op has such a huge waiting list of new kids wanting to join and there not being the room for it, that next year they are splitting this into TWO locations.

My other son will start next year (he's in preschool right now at a local church) so we are going to be taking the kids playroom (a 12'x9' room off the living room) and turning that into a school room and the kids playroom will move to the basement.

It's not always easy and my wife had to resign her PT job in order to make this work but we are grateful and relieved that our children will NOT be getting indoctrinated by the Alphabet Mafia, being taught to hate their country and becoming brainwashed into good obedient little leftist drones.

Anyone else here homeschool?

Yes.

This year was my daughter's senior year of HS, she chose to go to public school, reluctantly we've allowed it. I've regretted it seriously. She also dropped out of the honors program and dropped all her advanced courses without parental permission. Her guidance counselor told her it wasn't required to get into college, and allowed our 17 year old daughter to drop down to teachers aide, ceramics, and three band classes. We found out when her report card arrived. She just lost her full 2 year ride scholarship to any Alaska state school.

When our schools went to online from home in March of 2020, we started supplementing the lack of education for our son (at the time he was in 2nd grade). We kept him enrolled online through 2021 for the social aspects, but we heavily introduced home schooling last year. This year we enrolled him formally in our state's homeschool program. We felt the local schools needed to get the message that we dissaprove of their liberal bullshit. Apparently others felt the same way, nearly 40% of students didn't return to public schools in Alaska after the 2021 school year. Homeschool enrollments are up 33% here.

Our son is now nearly back at grade level (4th) for reading, caught up on the basics of math, and has left public school kids in the dust for science and other subjects. We're still focusing heavily on reading and math, and he's finally turning the corner on reading. We bring him to our office everyday with us, and each of us take turns assisting him in the studies of the day. He is a happier child, he is a more confident child, and he's never worn a face diaper. It isn't required in our schools but the teachers heavily pressure the kids to wear them. We've fired 2 superintendents this year, but teacher liberalism is strong in the unions.

The only way to bring change and save our children is to bankrupt the system.

I'll standby for the personal attacks... most retired school teachers I know agree with me. Most current school teachers I know hate me, or strongly disagree. A couple of members of this forum have hit me up in social media pretty hard for my stance on public school indoctrination, and many have blocked me. Fine with me.

Teach your own kids, or you are complicit with the indoctrination of liberalism. Expect teachers to discuss perversions of sex and other subjects without your knowledge. No parent in this country can act like they didn't know anymore.

I'm with you, AK. If I had school age kids right now they wouldn't even know what the inside of a public school looks like.

Good luck with what you're doing.

My one fear is that these too-powerful public school teacher's unions will see what is coming and pressure/convince/bribe politicians to either make home schooling really difficult to get into or illegal altogether.

In some other countries like Germany it's already illegal to homeschool your children.

Channeling JAllen: get rid of public squirrels

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The only way to bring change and save our children is to bankrupt the system.

Or to take the system back from those who are currently mismanaging it. I decided to try that route first, not just for my kids, but for all of them.

Vote me for school board.

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The only way to bring change and save our children is to bankrupt the system.

Or to take the system back from those who are currently mismanaging it. I decided to try that route first, not just for my kids, but for all of them.

Vote me for school board.

I can vote like a liberal and give you at least 20 votes from out of state...

I fully support your effort and agree with it.

We had some good teachers here, and some of them exist still, in MANY places the requirements of vaccines, masks, and playing the sexualization game with children has forced them out.

My major accomplishment in parenting:
Getting my kid through HS with his head on straight!
And that was 15 years ago. Like everything else the government is involved in, its worse now then when my kid was in school.
If you can swing home schooling, do it!

I'll be homeschooling my soon-to-be 12 year old after this school year. He goes to private Christian school now and he's doing well. No woke BS in the school. Once we move, it's all on me to teach him, but I already do more for him than the school does. He likes it when I teach him.

He gets lost in big groups. It takes me a few minutes to get his brain engaged, but once it is, he's got things down real good. As soon as I look away or give him some leeway, his grades slip.

I'll be following this thread and will be looking for resources to homeschool him in FL after the summer. Oregon schools are lost. My son is easily smarter than kids 3 grades above him in public school.

Tony.

We homeschool our son. Public school was ill equipped to meet his needs. Not being brainwashed by liberal BS is an added perk. Make no mistake it a significant investment of time and resources, but the rewards far out weight the challenges for us.

Yes, I got my daughter from 4th grade to now 8th grade and my son left 1/2 way through first grade, now he is in 6th.
We are in FL and basically dual enroll them in FLVS online and do our own curriculum. Its hard, mom does it all, she is a lawyer but you can buy the school curriculum text books, the teachers sell their teacher guides on ebay and stuff, and you can use that to teach it. Literally every word the teacher says during class is in that book.
tony, hit me on a PM and Ill see if I can get you rolling, he's same age as my son who is 12.

Our plan is to send them back for Highschool, but I think that will be short lived. Ill stack what my kids have learned against just about anyone their age.

Homeschool is amazing for them and no woke BS!

Kids are the best thing ever; don’t underinvest or leave it to the state gooberment indoctrination.

Professionally I sell educational software and work with large districts all over the country and I’m amazed by the things I hear. There is a large subset of whacky teachers doing whacky things and a large subset of admins/school boards not willing to use common sense.

I attended a military boarding school for 2 years of high school and strongly encourage parents to explore that option. It encourages personal responsibility and doesn’t allow for indoctrination like public schools.

We've been at it for over 25 years. When we started, we couldn't have imagined how bad government schools would become.

We pulled our youngest out when the schools started forcing masks and covid insanity on the kids. It was something we had been thinking about for awhile anyway.
We're fortunate that my wife works from home, otherwise it wouldn't have been possible.

Our kids all started in private Christian School. The school they went to originally went from kindergarten through 6th grade, and our plan all along was to send them through 6th and then pull them and homeschool. The school has since merged with a local christian high school, but the cost of the upper grades is prohibitively expensive, so we decided to stick with the original plan.

We pulled our oldest two years ago when he reached 7th grade, and ended up pulling our daughter, who was in 4th grade at the same time. She had endured a year or two of young, inexperienced airhead teachers in a row, and was not doing well academically.

The first year was a bit of an adjustment, but we survived, and they are both doing very well now. My daughter in particular has blossomed academically since starting homeschool. She's gone from barely being able to read (after 3rd grade!) to writing complete reports, and she's doing pre-algebra now successfully while she was struggling with basic math skills when we pulled her out of the school.

The school isn't liberal or woke...it functions in solid conservative morals. But their philosophy of education has gone downhill since the merger. They brought in some administrators who had worked in the public schools, and while they didn't bring the social garbage with them, they brought the academic philosophies. The math curriculum, in particular, is abysmal, and the kids don't understand it. I can't blame them because I don't either. Most of the older teachers are still teaching basic math facts, though, but the younger ones are just using the new book. My daughter got through 3rd grade without ever learning her times tables.

They've also changed the grading scale from traditional A-F to some other thing with Os, Ms, Ss, and Es. We had to have a parent teacher conference just to understand it, and ultimately what it seemed to me was just some modern feel good bullcrap that's supposed to say the same thing but really doesn't, and ultimately just confuses everybody. If the kid failed, they failed. Stop trying to sugarcoat it by calling it something else, and teach the material. Communicate it clearly to me as the parent if that is happening, so I can give them a kick in the pants and provide the extra tutoring at home to get them back on track. My oldest was failing spelling in second grade, and when we found out about it we made him work on it every night with us until he had it down. He didn't enjoy it, and sometimes it was a fight, but he ended the year with an A, and more importantly, it ingrained the study habits so in subsequent years he was never in that situation again.

Most of the older, veteran teachers have found ways to teach around that crap, but as they've retired and younger, fresh out of college teachers have taken their places, the quality of instruction has really suffered. Not ALL of the new teachers are bad, but it's the general trend. I went on a field trip with my daughter's third grade class and observed how her young teacher had absolutely no control whatsoever of her students, and watching her "teach" e-learning during the covid lockdown was the last straw.

Our two younger boys are still there, and have been fortunate to have excellent teachers so far and are doing well. We are evaluating who is going to have their class every upcoming year, and making our decision about re-enrollment accordingly. So far they have had good teachers and have been excelling academically, so I don't want to mess with that. But sooner or later we're going to be stuck with one of these "modern educators" and have to make that call.

Sounds good Tim! Thanks!

Tony.

We enrolled our 4 in a PA Cyber school for the 2020 school year and have been there since. While it's not a true homeschool option it does allow my wife to be more involved in what they are learning and remove them from classes or topics we disagree with. The kids are flourishing academically, however having the boys remain focused during class and not getting side tracked while looking at the computer screen has been a challenge to say the least. It also does not help that our oldest is 10 and then the triplets are 8.

We are considering sending them back to Public next year purely based on my wife's sanity. Every day is a struggle with getting our boys to behave properly which is wearing on my wife. We remain hesitant to send them back as issues have had a light shined on them over the past two years school board meetings. It remains to be seen what my wife will choose for next year.

My daughter is 32 now, we did it form 5th grade on. She graduated high school with her associate and went on to get a Masters. If I did it again I would have sent her to community college for 9th grade and then to finish up in a University to have her degree at 18.

I've seen it done well and done worse than public school, it's all up to you. It is not easy but I would never send my child to public indoctrination. The effort is worth it and it will pay in the long run. There are plenty of options now with online learning too. The myths about social interaction are just myths and you can take steps to address those issues if you have concerns. Go for it, it will pay dividends in the life of your children. I actually have a friend at church trying to start up his own classical Christian school to provide home schoolers with options in learning that he never had with his three sons.

Yes, we pulled our daughter at Christmas. She is loving it, and excelling. Because of all the previous extra and AP classes she has taken, she will be graduating about 9 months early.

We kept our son in as he will graduate in May.

We also joined HSLDA to help educate us and protect our rights from the state.