Homeschooling...for newbies

[mrs.b]

I'm excited too! I think this is the way to go....good for you guys on making the right tough call.

It is definitely the right call, but I wouldn't say tough. We thought it would be, but the more we look into it, we realize we already do the majority of his teaching. We just do it after he wastes eight hours a day in a classroom that stresses him out, where only 10% of the kids are worth his time as a social circle (the main reason we always talked ourselves out of it before), and after getting through to him to ignore the methods teachers tried to show him in class that just confused him. We can give him the social circle with other homeschooled kids and those few friends from school that are well-behaved.

Hubby and I feel like about 10,000 pounds lifted off our shoulders when we finally came to the conclusion that this was the way to go for him. And since we started looking the other day, we have found so many people in our area that homeschool that we thought just sent their kids to one of the local private schools.

And I honestly do not think we would have seriously considered this option if it were not for you, Mr. Rebel, and all the other homeschool parents I've seen talking about how happy and healthy and well-rounded their kids are, so I owe all of you a HUGE thank you. Could never repay that kind of help. The little bug is going to be so much better for it.