home school some/public school for others??

[AngieB]

Sorry about the title I didn't know how to word it. My question is does anyone send one or more of your children to school and then also home school one or more of your other children? How does it work. What are the draw backs? Any imput on the matter would be great.

My oldest Dd loves school and is doing great. My Ds has lots of behavior and social problems and I'm starting to think it is effecting him emotionally. DH and I are thinking about pulling him out next year and homeschool for the year and seeing how it goes. But I'm wondering about how it would work with DD still in school.

[cchrissyy]

I'm hoping to do this, but I don't know what will happen. I'm taking each year and each kid as an individual so I expect sometimes their educational settings will differ, and that's OK.

[Mamato3wild ponnie]

We are currently doing this...older ds is being homeschooled/unschooled and dd is going to school....so dd has missed more school since ds has been home...she doesn't want to get up and go to school...she thinks it's no fair that ds gets to stay home....then if i let her stay home...she complains of being so bored and she misses her friends..so i'm like going in circles whether or not to keep her home with the next school year...however i will have to pull her out of school in December...that is if she goes...because our family is moving to MX so...she will not have a choice to go to school then....i asked her if she wants to go to school at the end of the summer and she says no...she wants to be at home....so we are struggling with this at the moment...she is 7 and i sometimes feel that i need to be the one to make the decision rather than letting her make up her mind...just because she is so wishy washy over going to school....i can understand how she feels though...because i had the worst guilt trip right before i pulled ds out of school...i worried that i was doing the right thing and i didn't want for him to miss out on all the "cool" things they did at school..but now i know i did the right thing by pulling him out.....he's doing great.

[SagMom]

When we first started hsing, dd continued in school. This only lasted four months, but was a real drag as far as scheduling goes.

The boys and I would go on field trips duing the day, or to homeschool group events but always with an eye on the clock so we could be home in time for dd to get home from school. Ds didn't really appreciate having to cut activities short, especially since he was just starting to make new friends. And, while dd CHOSE to stay at school, she was still a little jealous of the time that the boys and I had together during the day as well as the trips to zoos, museums, etc. that she missed.

We had to be careful that evening activities didn't run too late, or dd wouldn't be able to get up in the morning for school. When I wanted to volunteer at the school, or go to a meeting or a parent-teacher conference, I needed to find childcare for the boys because siblings weren't allowed to come with me. Now that everyone is hsing, we plan our own calendar, but when dd was in school, we needed to work around school vacations if we wanted to go somewhere together.

Nothing insurmountable, and I know people who make it work, but it was a relief to me when dd decided to come home.

[ecoteat]

I have a third grade student in my public school classroom who was homeschooled until this year. I was already friends with the family, so when she knew she would be in my class she wanted to come to school. Her 7th grade sister is homeschooled and has been all along. She is probably going to go to a Waldorf school next year. The 10th grade brother is in a democratic high school--he had been homeschooled through 8th grade (he might have done public kindergarten; I can't remember). The kids have made all their own decisions about where they want to be taught. They all have different personalities and learning styles. My student is thriving this year--she had a slow start going from unschooling and being at least 2 grade levels behind on our reading assessments (which I wasn't at all worried about) to accelerating quickly through everything. Socially, coming to school has been a good choice for her too. But her sister is much happier at home. I think the key is to listen to the kids--each one is different and has different needs.