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I'll be honest, I had never thought about homeschooling.  I grew up in the late 70's, early 80's and homeschooling wasn't spoken about or thought about.  The one thing I did think about was how I felt about my public education.  It was boring and irrelevant to my life.  If I mentioned how I felt, I was ridiculed and called lazy.  

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Then much later in life, I gave birth to my amazing son.  As I held him in my arms, life took on a very different meaning.  It was like the scales were lifted from my eyes.  All of a sudden I didn't swallow up the nonsense.  I questioned the education he was receiving.  Oh, I still suffered the backlash but I fought harder because I had more at stake this time, my son.

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I'm sure you know how it feels otherwise you wouldn't be here.  The threats thrown at you, and yes, they are threats:  Your kid will never have friends.  Your kid will be weird and not be able to handle any social interaction.  How are they going to learn math?  You don't have a teaching degree.  Are you sure you are qualified to do this?  What about their high school prom?  (I went to public high school and didn't go to the prom.

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So, here you are and you might have all of these questions swirling in your mind.  I had the same questions myself and I finally came to the conclusion: If public school can wrangle up 28 kids per one teacher and do some type of creative crowd control for 7 hours a day, I can do better.  I know I can and so can you.  I have 100's but I will relay one instance for you.

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After one week in public school due to my family's insistence (for all of the reasons I stated above) I pulled my son out of school and put him into a "homeschool" charter.  He went one day a week for 3 hours and received a public school education and I was commanded to do a week's worth of homework the other 4 days.  I wasn't liking this situation either since my son had other ideas about his education than the public school.  My son was and still is extremely bright and would do math in his head faster than I could.  I would present him with a problem but he refused to write it down.  Instead, he would think about it and get back to me with the correct answer.  Always, the correct answer.  I thought that was hilarious and since he was 6 years old, wondrous at the same time.  Then the state testing came.  I was never told by his first teacher that parents can opt their children out of the state testing if they wanted to.  So I sent him in for the test and it didn't go so well.  He apparently, had to write out how he got the correct answers in math. If he didn't do this, well the answer was incorrect.  So, even though he was excelling in math, they gave him a bad grade because he didn't write out what they wanted him to.  That blew me away.  I mean, really...

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Here is another math situation.  They would give the students 3 different ways to come up with an answer in a math problem.  If the student could do one way correctly and the other two ways would give him trouble, the problem was marked incorrect and he was penalized.  This occurred even if he came up with the correct answer!  Make it make sense...  I went to discuss this with the teacher (who he saw him 3 hours a week) and asked why were these questions marked incorrect when he clearly had the correct answer.  The answer she gave:  "Well, we want the kids to discover which way works better for them.  It's individualized instruction."

Individualized?  No, actually it isn't.  You are making my son feel stupid even though he is coming up with the correct answer.   So if they understand how to solve a problem one way out of three, they solved the problem.  But school isn't going to let that happen folks.  Why? Because they don't teach anything in school.  They indoctrinate.

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