Homeschool....I'm ready!!

[M To The Maxx]

I don't know what your current financial situation is right now but have you considered private school?

 

[redhen]

Mike...
Here in MA..you know we have that VERY strict bully law now? (cause of that girl that commited sucide a few towns over from us...) They HAVE to respond to the bullies now.. its all gotta be legally written up and turned in now..
I'd call the super of schools.. dont even mess with the principle anymore.
..get on them like white on rice... and DONT be afraid using the sue word either...
Let me know if i can be of any help, buddy... we sort of went through this last year... i can tell you what the case worker did to get the schools attention BIG time..

 

[Me & My Peeps]

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I have, unfortunately the ones by me either require you to be a member of their church and pledge loyalty to them, commit to tithing or the "real" private schools cost $17k+ a year. So, we'll home school. How hard can it be? I certainly cant do any worse than what's being offered out there now.

 

[redhen]

Me & My Peeps :

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I have, unfortunately the ones by me either require you to be a member of their church and pledge loyalty to them, commit to tithing or the "real" private schools cost $17k+ a year. So, we'll home school. How hard can it be? I certainly cant do any worse than what's being offered out there now.

Tis true.. the schools by us are a joke...

 

[Me & My Peeps]

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Thanks RedHen, thats why I was so shocked that they handled it the way they did, because of what happened 20 miles from here, just a few short months ago. Iv'e got so much going on in my life right now, I can only fight on so many fronts at once. Right now, for me, for us, the best solution is to just pull him out. If the daughter did not get accepted to Pathfinder, we were going to home school her too. I simply refused to send to that high school. Rampant drug abuse, weapons, fighting, councilors having relations with the students, Teachers looking the other way.....not with MY kid. I wont allow it. The thing is? It wasnt that long ago that people MOVED here just so they could get their kids in our schools!! What a horrific backslide this town has done...

 

[dianaross77]

Please don't feel the need to apologize for ranting. Dealing with schools can be really tough. My 9 year old son came home today and said some girl on the bus told him to "STFU"! He also came home from school with a bruise on his arm from getting punched repeatedly by a girl in gym class. Ironically, it was only a week after the gym teacher called me to say that my son is a "verbal bully"! I got real short with him and informed him of my son's Asperger diagnosis. Just after the phone call, he informed my son that he needed to "hurry up and have that meeting with the school social worker" (part of his special education plan to help him gain some empathy). I totally understand your choice to homeschool. If your son is already having such issues with his peers than I'd worry more about what that does to his spirit than him being "under-socialized." There are plenty of activities where he can be surrounded by his peers in a less intense setting. I put my son in Sanchin-Ryu which is a non-competitive martial art taught as self-defense. There is no sparring and I think it helps build self confidence.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

We're using time4learning.com for some subjects, books for other subjects, andTeaching Textbooks for math, which I LOVE! Best wishes to you and your son!!

 

[Me & My Peeps]

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Wow, what timing for that post! My wife was just mentioning something like that to me about 2 hours ago. She doesn't want him to take classes for the self defense aspect, but the discipline, social and confidence it will breed. I joined a Yahoo group tonight for MA home schoolers and I am amazed at how many people within a 30 mile radius have taken their kids out of school for the same problems I'm having. Like your situation, the school admin is blaming the VICTIM not the aggressor. How is it possible for so many parents to be wrong? I'm not going to wait till the end of the year, I drafted my required letter to the school superintendent and will send it cert'd mail next week after I have located all the books and text's for my curriculum. I wont subject my child to that environment any longer and I also wont let them build a file on him every time he defends himself! I was unsure what to do before or how to handle it, but now after researching it - i'm confident it's the right thing to do.

I doubt this will get all "legal" as it's surprisingly simple to remove your child and home school. There is a TON of local clubs/groups in my area of all age groups. Thanks to the help and links from those that added links to this thread, im pretty confident now.

 

[5pinkarrows]

Welcome to the world of homeschooling. We survived just over a year of a public charter school. I had my oldest in from January of her Kinder year and we made it to April of first grade. The standards were so far below what I thought was acceptable. Since I had homeschooled the first half of kindergarten (because we were moving cross country in December), I saw her having NO progress from all that I taught her. So, I pulled her out for academic reasons. I had no idea of the other benefits of homeschooling until we did it. Now it has been 6 years, and I am convinced that even the best private school in the country couldn't offer what homeschooling does. It isn't always easy, but if you can stick with it the first couple of years, it isn't likely you will ever go back to a "normal" school setting.

 

[Momagain1]

Robin'sBrood :

We're using time4learning.com for some subjects, books for other subjects, andTeaching Textbooks for math, which I LOVE! Best wishes to you and your son!!

AGREE LOOOVE teachingt textbooks!!!!​