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How many of you home school your kids?
We use the K12 curriculum. We have tossed around the idea of using something different when we get out there.
I have no children...yet. But, I have a cousin in Portland that is using the K12 system and they love it! I've looked into it for my nephews...the oldest is in 1st grade this year and is miserable! He keeps getting into trouble for fighting back when the other boys bully him (daily)! As far as I can tell, the little monsters that are bullying him are getting away with it and aren't being punished at all. He actually got suspended last week for spitting at one of them when they called him a foul name! One that no 1st grader should even know in my opinion!
If (and when) we ever have kids...they are never setting foot in a public school! I wonder if that opinion will get me in trouble when we start looking to adopt, lol.
It shouldn't get you in trouble as long as you have a curriculum in place. Even a curriculum that you create should be good enough in the State. All you need to HS in Washington is 45 college credits or a homeschool certification class. There is a third option, but that rarely ever happens. I stopped sending my kids to public school after my DS's second grade. He was have so much trouble there and he was beginning to loose his self esteem. I t wasn't worth it. The teachers are so overwhelmed by the class sizes too. That last year I watched the second grade teacher having to deal with children that were reading at much higher grade average, and children that had no letter recognition, and of course everything in between. It had to be overwhelming. I often worried that my kids weren't learning enough, but in the end they had little or no problem with the college classes. I am so happy that we homeschooled now. We had a great HS support group here in the Enumclaw area when are kids were growing up. I don't know what it's like now. The group in the Vancouver WA area was too heavily connected to church curriculum for us, so we never got very involved in that area, but we did get involved with 4-H there, and we loved that part of our lives a lot.
I guess it will be a shrimp salad for Chickielady then!!
