girlinpearls asked: What is your opinion on home-schooling? What do you plan on doing with Everly - public, private, or home?
I think homeschooling is so cool. We’ve got some family that home school and they are seriously the smartest kids ever. I think if we had the sort of life where we could pick up and go whenever we wanted, we’d definitely home school…
Brent and I have tossed it around some - Brent would make an excellent teacher and it’d be cool to teach her by going places and seeing things first hand.
But you know, I think about my school experience - I really, really loved going to school. I loved riding the bus. I loved carrying a packed lunch. I loved getting a new book bag and finding out what friends were in my classes.
I loved my teachers. and being in school plays. and meeting new people. and playing sports and going to dances.
And no matter how hard we tried - there is so much of that experience we couldn’t replicate in home school. Sure there are some really, really cool things that home school kids get to do that other children don’t (like learning in your PJ’s and making your own schedule!) but I want Everly to have those same experiences Brent and I did.
Even more convincing, the elementary school we are district to is AWESOME. It’s a language immersion school with 5 different languages to choose from and has one of the most active PTA’s in the state. It’s such a neat school and even though it’ll be years until she goes, I want to stay in this neighborhood specifically because of that rockin’ elementary school.
So that’s where we stand right now. We plan to put her in public school as long as it’s a school that we are confident in.
(Plus, I’m not confident either of us would be able to effectively teach her math - oh gah! So hard. Seriously, even long division makes me sweat a little)
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