We did. Oldest is 36.

You work to give your children the best you can, be advised they still make their own decisions. But - they are better equipped and have a good start. What they do from there is on them - good bad or indifferent.

I'm about to the point where my parents were - they did what they could and some of their children turned out ok. There are no guarantees.

Yep. We homeschooled our four kids all the way through high school.

It was a great experience and I think it was the best thing we could have done for them.

I admit that I was a difficult “convert”. We had recently moved from one Chicago suburb to another specifically for the school district. We were there just over a year when the wife announces she wants to homeschool. I said “No”.

But, once our two oldest were in the schools, I started noticing a change in our oldest son’s behavior. He was normally the sweetest, best-behaved kid. Then he suddenly started acting sullen and disrespectful. We talked and he’d be OK for a bit. But, a few weeks later I’d overhear him talking back to the wife, and I’d have another talk with him.

After this happened a few more times, I finally realized he was picking up this attitude from kids at school. That’s when I said “OK” to the wife. We pulled our kids out of the school and that was the end of the behavior problems.

The benefits of homeschooling are pretty’s well known now. But, what I liked the most was the ability to tailor a curriculum to the child, as opposed to requiring each child to conform to the school’s curriculum.

Our second son was good in some subjects and very advanced in math and science. Once the wife realized how well he did, she adjusted his curriculum to give him more advanced math and science classes. He kept racing through the material, so she kept assigning him more advanced work. At one point he was doing math and science courses designed for kids four years older than he was.

This may a bit off topic, but we’ve hired a number of cadets that were homeschooled. One of the biggest issues is their fail to understand diversity in the current law enforcement environment. They’re very smart, great learning skills, but the first time they engage with a pregnant 15 year old with two other kids, they can’t process as to the why.
One young officer works for me who was homeschooled in Illinois. She openly admits that her parent didn’t want her to be exposed to “dregs of society. She told us she felt like and outcast in college because of a lack of social skills.
Just my observations. By no means am I disparaging anyones choice to homeschool.

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This may a bit off topic, but we’ve hired a number of cadets that were homeschooled. One of the biggest issues is their fail to understand diversity in the current law enforcement environment. They’re very smart, great learning skills, but the first time they engage with a pregnant 15 year old with two other kids, they can’t process as to the why.
One young officer works for me who was homeschooled in Illinois. She openly admits that her parent didn’t want her to be exposed to “dregs of society. She told us she felt like and outcast in college because of a lack of social skills.
Just my observations. By no means am I disparaging anyones choice to homeschool.

If they are truly smart, and have a great learning skills, then I’m sure they’re quite teachable. That’s more than I can say for most people.

We and a group of like minded parents are starting our own school. Does that count?

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So I'm entering week two in homeschooling. We decided to go with Abeka Christian Academy out of Pensacola. We paid for their accredited program which was just shy of $2k for the whole package. They got copies of his transcripts from his school in Oregon and when we're done with high school, he'll have college credits with Pensacola Christian College.

It's a lot of work, but I was expecting that. The program asks for a start date and today was supposed to be day one but we started last week so we could get a feel for the routine. I'm glad we did. I basically just follow the daily schedule that they have laid out in their online calendar and there are five video sessions that he watches every day.

You can get the DVD's or stream. We opted for streaming. As my son watches the videos, the dashboard updates his progress. As long as he gets up and starts school around 7:30 AM he's done around 3 or 4 PM. And he's all done with homework at that point.

Quizzes and tests are all taken online and digitally logged. I still have the quiz and test answers, but there are no pre-printed student quizzes to hand out. Still, it gives me the opportunity to make sure he reviews the correct material before taking the tests. It's basically like taking online college courses.

He has a small stack of about six books but between the teacher editions, quiz and test keys, the solution keys, daily lesson plans, and video manuals, I have easily three times more books for me, as the home teacher, than he does as the student.

As for the video class sessions, I have him watching them at my desk in the garage while I work. I'm able to keep him on task while I work. We're still in the adjustment phase but I'm liking the curriculum so far and they inject GOD in all the lessons.

I think I'll be able to help him study much more effectively than he has in previous years. I still have to get engaged with FPEA and get a network of other parents going so we can do meet-ups with other homeschool kids. We have him scheduled for fall sports. The kids in the neighborhood are all indoors for the summer or in schools locally.

Apparently, the school system in this county is very sub-par, but not for the same reasons as Oregon. In Oregon, the material isn't academic, it's activist. Here, the issue is school budget, underpaid teachers and large class sizes. I guess kids in the public school system here are testing much lower than the standard.

Glad we're doing the homeschool thing and I'll keep you updated. I think we'll find our stride this month.

Tony.

Our granddaughter is 4 and we are looking to find some way to homeschool her. The schools are terrible and the school district she's in is the worst of the bunch. My wife and I are both full time at our jobs so I'm not sure how that will work.

Reading a thread like this reminds me to be ever thankful for living in the area we do. Our 9 year old grandaughter started her first day in 4th grade just yesterday in a new for her school. The school had a big event planned welcoming the kids and parents. Of course, the wife and I went.

The principal and vice principal were greeting parents at the door. All the classes were decorated with different themes. I looked inside each classroom as we walked and noted that one third grade teacher was touting the importance of our natural resources. She had pictures of coal mining, off shore oil rigs and hydro-electric dams. Shoot, I felt like walking in and shaking her hand, but I didn't.

The community is thankful for all of this and as long as I have lived here, every single school levy on the ballot has passed.

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We and a group of like minded parents are starting our own school. Does that count?

As an update: My original post was made in the idea stage. Yesterday was the first day of school and the school has:

1 class each from pre-school to 12th grade.
175 students with 25 seniors.
15 teachers
A building with actual classrooms for every class. We didn’t build the building, rather we found a church with an existing building they weren’t using.

There won’t be hot lunch this year because that’s whole ‘nother thing. Otherwise, we went from no school to a fully functional school in 4 1/2 months.

There are a whole lot of parents that are not happy with the public schools and immediate drastic solutions are required.

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Sent my daughter back after years of homeschooling. We let her go into high school, that lasted 3 days. So now that she is a highschool drop out we have her back homeschooling. She was way ahead of her peers and the school just wouldn't place her properly in the classes that she has earned and worked to be in. It was really frustrating.

We now have three grandchildren: the granddaughters are 4 and 2, the grandson is one month old.
My major task for the remainder of my life is to try to keep them from being subjected to
1. CRT where they would learn to hate themselves for being white
2. Gender fluid insanity--it's all a lie, BTW: those "trans" people just have fake genitalia
3. 1619 Project false history instead of the true history of our overcoming ancient wrongs
4. New new new math with no right answers and no gifted kids
5. Anti-Christian indoctrination where there is no God, therefore morality is relative

Will my daughter and son understand how incredibly evil the Leftist agenda in schools is? Will they realize that everything they have done and want to do for their kids will fail if their kids hate their parents, themselves, and our shared values?

I don't know.

Unfortunately they moved away from San Diego, where I--not they--had found the ideal school (Cambridge Classical Academy) that is academically rigorous but Christian (like a little Hillsdale).

Catholic schools.

I home schooled my daughter from 8th grade on. She is what you'd call an "old soul" and gets on better with older kids or adults better than her own age group so the social aspect was pretty easy for her.
She is extremely self motivating which really helped and loves to be challenged.
We chose K12 for her "school" and I had no complaints. The curriculum was straight forward and quite advanced.
She graduated a year and a half ago and is now working on a Navy destroyer.

We've been homeschooling about 10 yrs now. My wife runs a local co-op of 20+ homeschool families.
I'm in utah which is pretty conservative but the socialist BS I hear about from the public school system blows my mind.
My daughter is 17 and starred doing duel enrollment for college credit last year. She goes to the local HS 2-3x per week for about 2 hrs per day. The stories I hear from her about the disrespect and lack of values from other student is disturbing. The teachers/administrators are too scared to do anything.
Fortunately my daughter is well grounded and very strong.

My niece and nephew are home schooled, with online tutors, and several grades ahead, speak multiple languages, etc.

“Normal” people shouldn’t have to deal with the dregs of society.

Rejecting that, makes the kids normal.

Society isn’t supposed to be about embracing/welcoming the dregs.

At least, not the unrepentant. All for the kids of the crack whores doing better. Not for teaching them it’s OK to be a crack whore.

Found out today that the HS that my daughter went to for 3 days, and was then notified that she was leaving, kept her on the books for another 10 days, reported her absent for those days, gave her all D's and F's and is not making that her transcript for the school and shipping it to the county. This is not going down without a fight. Screw all these bastards for what they do to the hard working kids.

That’s both incredible and yet not surprising. It is a government bureaucracy. Give’m hell!

Timdogg, call a lawyer.

The HSLDA specializes in dealing with schools doing things like this to homeschoolers.

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Originally posted by JR78:
One young officer works for me who was homeschooled in Illinois. She openly admits that her parent didn’t want her to be exposed to “dregs of society. She told us she felt like and outcast in college because of a lack of social skills.
Just my observations. By no means am I disparaging anyones choice to homeschool.

Well, tell her that I spent my Junior and Senior High School years fighting my way through just to survive being surrounded by the dregs of society and she didn't miss a thing.

And when I say fighting, I mean it literally. That's what you had to do to survive.