Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

He is at Rensselaer in NY.
I sent him to high school.
I burned out and was not sure I could do the advanced maths that he required for Engineering college.
He did so well in high school. I think I swallowed too much of the negative comments that Homeschooling would ruin him. 
There is always someone trying to make the parents feel like we are destroying our children's' futures with our non-conformity.

Yep.... To the negative comments


I forgot you sent him to high school.

I have one more year before I know if I need to stick my head in a blender.

The sad thing is the eldest is the one most likely to totally fail.... So, we shall see.

 

[3goodeggs]

I had- I am embarrassed to say- the fear that my son would bomb highschool. I had to push and pull, and drag him for 8 years. He got to school realized he was one of the brighter bulbs in that establishment and he totally took off.
It was almost as if he finally realized it was on him, not on me.
Keep your head out of the blender- no matter what.

 

[duluthralphie]

He is at Rensselaer in NY.
I sent him to high school.
I burned out and was not sure I could do the advanced maths that he required for Engineering college.
He did so well in high school. I think I swallowed too much of the negative comments that Homeschooling would ruin him.
There is always someone trying to make the parents feel like we are destroying our children's' futures with our non-conformity.

You should be proud of what you did.

I was on a school board for a stint a while back. After what I saw and learned, I would home school if I had to do it over. Especially today with the program available online for students and the bunk that is fed to the students in public schools, ( like lemmings over a cliff)..

SO great job. You did teach him about parka's and mukluks right?

 

[saltandpepper2]

As Someone who grew up having been homeschooled and in public school, definitely think they're are advantages to both! Definitely got a superior education in the languages while homeschooled (My mother had a masters in English...). However, I thoroughly enjoyed all the science experiments I was able to do because of the public school. I also feel like my social skills developed the most while I was in public school; but that had much to do with the fact that my family was full of hermits! The definitely both have advantages and disadvantages, and I think it comes down to what is best for the individual child.

 

[Alaskan]

Well... My kids know about parkas and mukluks.

They can all read.... Yeah.

 

[chickisoup]

My daughter was homeschooled up until highschool then off to a small Christian school. She and her hubby in turn homeschooled both my granddaughters all the way thru. Both met the qualifications to graduate at 16, one took a year off, only taking a couple classes at a community college while she earned a little extra money and gained some teaching experience. Her older sister went streight off to Columbia for some core studies then transfered to Monroe to finish her double major psych and animal studies. She did her internship under Jack Hannah at the Columbus zoo.. She now has a job title too long for me to remember but she is among other things the large carnivore keeper at the big zoo in Baton Rouge (she started in October but was actually hired before she graduated). Her little sister graduates next month from Columbia. She went for an interview 2 weeks ago at Utah state where she hopes to get her masters in Kinesiology and dance so she can teach. Our family is convinced that homeschooling rocks! Oh, and I too was "self educated", wasn't called homeschooling in Michigan back then because it wasn't legal I did do a couple years in public school but they kept jumping grades on me so I finally took permanent "sick leave" until I tested my way into college.
I think they just kind of looked the other way on me because my brother had already done his entire senior year over the summer after his junior year. They gave up trying to keep up with him and just sent him home with the senior workload and he turned it all in in September, they graded it and declared him graduated. They really didn't know what to do with his kind of brains back then in our little school system. Sadly, he got bored, lied about his age when I was just 13, joined the army and wound up going off to Vietnam.

 

[perchie.girl]

My daughter was homeschooled up until highschool then off to a small Christian school. She and her hubby in turn homeschooled both my granddaughters all the way thru. Both met the qualifications to graduate at 16, one took a year off, only taking a couple classes at a community college while she earned a little extra money and gained some teaching experience. Her older sister went streight off to Columbia for some core studies then transfered to Monroe to finish her double major psych and animal studies. She did her internship under Jack Hannah at the Columbus zoo.. She now has a job title too long for me to remember but she is among other things the large carnivore keeper at the big zoo in Baton Rouge (she started in October but was actually hired before she graduated). Her little sister graduates next month from Columbia. She went for an interview 2 weeks ago at Utah state where she hopes to get her masters in Kinesiology and dance so she can teach. Our family is convinced that homeschooling rocks! Oh, and I too was "self educated", wasn't called homeschooling in Michigan back then because it wasn't legal I did do a couple years in public school but they kept jumping grades on me so I finally took permanent "sick leave" until I tested my way into college.
I think they just kind of looked the other way on me because my brother had already done his entire senior year over the summer after his junior year. They gave up trying to keep up with him and just sent him home with the senior workload and he turned it all in in September, they graded it and declared him graduated. They really didn't know what to do with his kind of brains back then in our little school system. Sadly, he got bored, lied about his age when I was just 13, joined the army and wound up going off to Vietnam.

I am somewhat self educated. Graduated highschool did a little college got bored went to work got bored with that went to school got another job.... back and forth till I found drafting.... me likey alot. Worked in a sweat shop at US Elevator doing 100 drawings a week which included CARBON copy bills of materials and cut lists. All on paper. Got bored then went back and took pre Calculus... Some where in all that I must have taken Geometry because they asked me to tutor Trigonometry...

worked US Elevator about three years and got hired out on contract detailing hydraulics for a test stand. By then I was about 26 spent some time working in aerospace field then Aerospace left town... Not before I got to work on the Atlas Centaur commercial retrofit, Tooling for the C17, and Tooling for the 777. After that I had to learn CAD.

By the last job as a designer in 2000 I was actually doing Manufacturing engineering. and when that revolving door spun once again I was done. When I took a job as a cashier at an ARCO. Loved it.

Oh I went back at 48 and got my Associates degree at ITT. The only classes I couldn't have taught were economics and physics.

I tried again in 2006 but my heart wasnt in it any more. In 2009 I took another job wrighting engineering change orders learned alot about the requirements for: URL, CSA, ROHS, OSHA, EPA, FDA, and AMA for medical equipment.... All filling in the needs for ISO 9001 documentation and Document trail for developing components through the life of a product. I was good at it .... I hated it big time.

I didnt let the door hit me in the behind as they waived good by to me.

Now... I want to write, and craft, and Raise my birds and goats and horse.... Oh and a dog or two.

deb

 

[3goodeggs]

My son took a one credit CAD course this semester and is in love.
He can draw very well, but the time he invests in it prohibits him from doing it much, but the CAD allows him to make the mental image a reality quickly.
He said he'd teach me over summer... but, I .. Why? Dogs, chickens . bees... plants. I am good.
I understand your wants.

My goal is to get all these pottery wheels moving and play with clay.
Everybody gets an ugly pot!
And you get an ugly pot!
..and you!
And you!

 

[sourland]

I am somewhat self educated.

I didnt let the door hit me in the behind as they waived good by to me.

Now... I want to write, and craft, and Raise my birds and goats and horse.... Oh and a dog or two.

deb

deb, sounds like a plan to me. That's the sort of life that has worked for me these last almost 24 years.

 

[duluthralphie]

deb, sounds like a plan to me. That's the sort of life that has worked for me these last almost 24 years.

MY plan is much simpler, I want to simply lay back in my recliner and have my servants bring me everything I need, carry me in one of those carriages kings of old had with 6-8 guys carrying them.

I want my wife and concubines to cool me with palm leafs and drinks... While feeding me grapes and cherries.....




But somewhere along the line things got screwed up and it did not turn out like this,,BUT I am still hoping it will.