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October 17, 2005, 9:25 am PDT
10/18 "I Am Right!"
Quote From: dcfroggyi think that this is a special decision for any parent of married couple to come to a decsion together. My son is a year now and while I was pregnant I was absolutley against him going to school. I have thoght about it a lot since then and I have re-evaluated my opinion. Yes there are some bad ppl out there that you want to protect your child from and yes your children can pick up some awful habits from other children or teachers. They also get to play with children their own age and get out of the house for 4-8 hours giving mom a much needed break. By the time your child is in school or ready for school you will probably welcome the peace. I think that we should be very selective in choosing schools and make sure that the school will adjust with you if you have a problem. It is hard to find perfection but thourogh research helps! I think I would be able to give my children "hands on" examples with thier homework or any question that they have for me about something they learned in school that day if they were not being home schooled. I think there is a lot good and bad about either situation and it is best left up to the parents. All I can say on that note is that you should try to make sure that you are making the decision based on the child's best interest and not your own. I understand where you are coming from, but in regards to your last statement, I have never seen a parent who home schooled in "their" best interest rather than their child's. Homeschooling is a huge sacrifice! (Like you said, your children going to school gives you a much needed break...you don't get that break when you're homeschooling). As far as choosing the school that your children go to, in most places (and in Georgia where I live), you don't get a choice about where your children go to school and unless you can afford to spend $600 or more per child to send them to a private school, then your options are either send them to an awful public school, or home school them. I chose to home school. I'm not saying that ALL public schools are bad. In fact I lived in Vermont much of my life and if I still lived there, my children would probably be going to a public school there.
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