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post #81 of 139
4/26/07 at 4:30am
[QUOTE=reeseccup;7919674][QUOTE=mom2ponygirl;7919634]The worst I've ever heard was from a teacher. She said that she couldn't imagine anyone homeschooling. If she had to stay cooped up at home with her kids all day she would end up killing them like that lady in Texas did. She said this in front of her 12 year old daughter. QUOTE]

I have to chime in. My daughter is only 2 but we plan on homeschooling. Our neighbor is a 2nd grade teacher and just had her 2nd child whom she wanted to find childcare for at 6 weeks (I am a nanny). She made the comment "I just miss my kids (the PS kids) so much. It is hard to be gone for too long." Aye. Aye. Aye. I decided it was a definite no go after that comment.
post #82 of 139
4/26/07 at 11:22am
When I first discussed hsing with my mom, she made a similar comment about being with the kids all day driving me crazy and said "you can love your children and hate being with them." Gee, thanks Mom...
post #83 of 139
4/26/07 at 11:47pm
I have mostly recieved nice comments and questions. Some from other parents/grandparents because they are intrested in homeschooling their children.

I got the "What about prom?" question. A sophmore public hs student asked me home my kids would be able to take Home Ec.: hmmm...Don't know how that would be accomplished at HOME. lol

One man told me he would never hire my children to work for him because they were homeschooled. I told him I hoped that my children would chose an employer that would look at them as the people they are not what they are on paper. He really wasn't worth the effort, he didn't even know that Texas A&M was a college.
post #84 of 139
4/27/07 at 9:13am
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Originally Posted by 7kiddosmom View Post
he didn't even know that Texas A&M was a college.

That's blasphemy!!!!
Gig 'em Ags
post #85 of 139
4/27/07 at 10:11am
I'm in a very conservative area so I get a lot of backhanded compliments like, "That's wonderful! The way that God has been taken out of schools by the liberals, I don't blame you."

No offense meant, of course, to anyone who is Christian. I'm simply openly not Christian and I'm pretty openly liberal.

I also get people--MIL did this last week--who go on and on about how sweet my kids are, how smart, how kind, then she'll say, "I just worry about the socialization." : The worst thing is that I'm always mentioning the activities the kids do; it just doesn't 'count' as socialization, I guess, if it's not packaged that way.

"You send them to school for high school, won't you?"

A last straw with an uncle of mine came when he asked my brother, "Why is she (me) doing that to those kids?" My brother went off on him.
post #86 of 139
4/27/07 at 10:14am
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Originally Posted by jeaninevp922 View Post
"How is he going to be able to get a job? He won't be used to being on a schedule and doing what's expected of him."
He's 5.
Oh, that too. Or, "Someday he'll have to work with a boss and not have Mommy around to help him."

Which, besides being condescending and rude, is a stupid point anyway. Someday he'll have a driver's license--should I start teaching him how to drive now? Someday he'll likely have a mortgage--should I charge him rent? Someday he might work in a cubicle farm--should I buy felt-covered walls and build him one to get him used to it?

Ridiculous.
post #87 of 139
4/27/07 at 10:18am
I'm sorry to serial post. I'm obviously all fired up.

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Originally Posted by mommabear View Post
"Oh so-and-so's class hatched chicks, how can he miss out on that?"
We live on a homestead so I *love* when people say stuff like that. Then I can pull out the, "Yesterday my kids helped shear a sheep." So there.

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And my all-time favourite: "I want my kids exposed to people from other cultures." This from a friend who's kids live in an upper middle class, primarily caucasian neighborhood. (Not to mention the passive racism and classism I hear in comments like that.) Ds goes to Chinatown, has a friend who's grandfather does work in Malawi, and has a Buddhist grandmother, not to mention all the people we meet in our city on a daily basis. Respect and interest in other people and places just doesn't seem to be fostered in school. It seems that at a young age kids are colour-blind, then as they get older cliques form, and the divisions start. I may be rambling . . . just thinking as I type.
ITA. I've heard that one as well and it's maddening. The local school here is tiny, K-12 in one building, and is 99.5% white. Diversity? Hardly. Of course, I'm enough of a snob that I'll say something like, "Well, they see different kinds of people at my belly dancing class, at Arabic playgroup..." et cetera, places where people of different ethnicities are far more likely to be than Dinkytown School, USA.
post #88 of 139
4/27/07 at 10:49am
When I informed DD's teacher and principal during a conference that I was withdrawing her to begin homeschooling, the principal warned me.

" You may think it will be easy to teach now, when its all about learning the simple things like numbers and reading, but have you thought about when she reaches high school and has to learn chemistry. I bet you couldn't teach her that. I know that I could not teach that."

I was appalled. I told her we would be fine. I started out college studying microbiology- I really do not see this particular problem coming up. I mean, if I do not know something that DD wants to learn about, can I not learn about it with her. : I can read too you know and I am not afraid of admitting when I so not know the answer to something. We look it up together. Not that hard.
post #89 of 139
4/27/07 at 11:11am
most of my family avoid the topic...they are hoping i will change my mind!:
post #90 of 139
4/27/07 at 11:13am
my family wil not bring it up, they are hoping i will change my mind:
post #91 of 139
4/27/07 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by Sasha_girl View Post
Someday he might work in a cubicle farm--should I buy felt-covered walls and build him one to get him used to it?
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post #92 of 139
4/27/07 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by frogguruami View Post
My kids are totally weird!!! But that is mostly genetic. I don't see how PS can change genetics.

My mother told me I would have to put them back in school for highschool because that is when they do the hard, important stuff. Evidently in her twisted little world, reading, writing and basic math isn't really important!

My father asked me how I was going to handle being BOTH the mother and the teacher. I pointed out that I had done just fine up until they were "school aged" so I would probably manage.:
That is so funny, I got a similar comment. My MIL asked me if I was planning on putting dd in Head Start. I said "No, I already told you we're homeschooling." She said "Yeah I know, but arent you at LEAST going to let her go to pre-k?"
post #93 of 139
4/27/07 at 6:14pm
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Originally Posted by Sasha_girl View Post
I'm in a very conservative area so I get a lot of backhanded compliments like, "That's wonderful! The way that God has been taken out of schools by the liberals, I don't blame you."

No offense meant, of course, to anyone who is Christian. I'm simply openly not Christian and I'm pretty openly liberal.

I also get people--MIL did this last week--who go on and on about how sweet my kids are, how smart, how kind, then she'll say, "I just worry about the socialization." : The worst thing is that I'm always mentioning the activities the kids do; it just doesn't 'count' as socialization, I guess, if it's not packaged that way.

"You send them to school for high school, won't you?"

A last straw with an uncle of mine came when he asked my brother, "Why is she (me) doing that to those kids?" My brother went off on him.
I would be annoyed at the first comment too. I'm an atheist, not all homeschoolers are christian.

I've heard the second comment as well. I always say I would actually be more comfortable sending them to a public elementary school, a lot of the social problems I'm concerned about don't crop up until middle and high school. So a public high school is the last place I will be sending my kids to.
post #94 of 139
4/27/07 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by warriorprincess View Post
That's just horrific.

I know I've posted this before, but the craziest was from my FIL: "Homeschooling takes away from your real job of housework".
He must be a fan of Frank Barrone on Everybody Loves Raymond
post #95 of 139
4/27/07 at 7:29pm
This is a great thread! Can I post even though we're not homeschooling? When DD was 3 1/2 someone asked where she went to preschool. I said she didn't, they asked if she would go when she was 4. I said no, and they said, "oh, so you're homeschooling then?"
??? Noooo, she's just not going to preschool. Just being a kid.

Jen
post #96 of 139
4/27/07 at 8:21pm
Originally Posted by warriorprincess


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I know I've posted this before, but the craziest was from my FIL: "Homeschooling takes away from your real job of housework".
That's fantastic news. If housework is my real job I obviously s**k, so please fire me!!!!!
post #97 of 139
4/28/07 at 11:58pm
Most people are positive. The most common response is "Oh, I could never do that!"

My aunt asked me, "How will you be able to teach them everything they need to know?" Uh, I won't and neither would any school on earth. As far as I know the schools don't hand out crystal balls...

I've also had a few people ask me if the school district gives me all the materials/curriculum we need. Good Lord, no! I homeschool in part because I don't WANT them to learn that way.
post #98 of 139
4/29/07 at 12:27am
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Originally Posted by Sasha_girl View Post
I'm in a very conservative area so I get a lot of backhanded compliments like, "That's wonderful! The way that God has been taken out of schools by the liberals, I don't blame you."
As much as I hate the assumption that just because we homeschool we are fundamental Christian (not that I have a problem with fundy Christians ), it sure saved me from having a religious debate while we were on vacation. My husband's grandparents are VERY southern baptist and they just assumed we had "seen the light" and that is why we decided to HS. It helped me avoid the "I'm a hippy pagan" discussion.
post #99 of 139
4/29/07 at 12:42am
...........the good "endorcements" I have gotten for homeschooling have been from strangers (ie: dd and I in a store during school---"why are you not in school?" dd answers "I am! I am homeschooled!) and they always say "that is great" .....now the negative crapola has all come from the FAMILY:
post #100 of 139
4/29/07 at 2:22am
A friend said to me, "But when are you going to get a real job and actually use your college education? You'll waste your degree completely if you homeschool."

Um, ok. I don't consider raising and teaching my kids as a waste.
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