Originally Posted by
Beaker
Hiya
Entertaining the thought of home schooling (homeschooling?) our kids. For the foreseeable future I'm going to be gone for up to 10 days at a stretch, then home for longish stretches and the wife and I think that we all might have more fun as a family if we aren't stuck to the traditional school schedule. We'd get 'em involved in activities like art and music classes and sports, and there is a home school co-op nearby for trickier things like chemistry labs.
Anybody have any experience with this? I'm interested in hearing the good and bad as well as pitfalls to avoid that you may know of.
Thanks
Spartan pretty much summed it up. There's one home-schooled kid who went to my high-school last year.
That was the only year he spent at the school.
He was essentially a pariah, lacking the social skills necessary to thrive in an out-of-home environment. Everybody ostracized the poor kid, and although he might have been just as academically sharp as the next person, he didn't thrive.