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Have your hs kids ever been schoolkids?  

Poll Results: Have your kids ever gone to school?

 
  • 45% (36)
    yes
  • 46% (37)
    no
  • 8% (7)
    the inevitable other
80 Total Votes  
post #1 of 28
9/11/07 at 11:15pm
Thread Starter 
Just wonderin'.
post #2 of 28
9/11/07 at 11:20pm
Thread Starter 
Nope
post #3 of 28
9/11/07 at 11:22pm
My girls did.

My oldest did 4 months of JK (4 yo kindy) and 2 months of SK (5 yo kindy) she did the full year of grades 1 & 2.
My middlest did 2 months of SK and the full year of grade 1.
My youngest did a full year of JK.

My son and any other children we have won't be going at all!
post #4 of 28
9/11/07 at 11:30pm
Yes.

3 yrs old = 2 hours 3 mornings/week at a very child-centered nursery school with a 1:1 ratio Early Childhood Ed. students to young children with 2 lead teachers overseeing the ECE students.

4 yrs = 3 hours every morning (M-F) at a much too academic teacher-centered Catholic school ... because that area didn't have any other option that I could afford (she began to hate school!)

4.5 yrs = we moved back to my parents' & she was in a great play-based PreK 4 hours/day with 1:6 child:adult ratio, which she loved

I would have been OK with her going to Kindergarten there if they had TAs + smaller class sizes, but it's about 1:25 teachers for 6 hours everyday :
post #5 of 28
9/12/07 at 12:09am
DS age 7 did preschool, public K and a couple months of 1st before we starting hs'ing last year.

DS age 4 goes to preschool 3 hours x 3 days a week, will probably homeschool next year, may do another year of preschool (depending in part on what his friends do .

DD age 2 - still deciding if she'll go to preschool next year or be home with the rest of us.
post #6 of 28
9/12/07 at 12:22am
No, always home schooled.
post #7 of 28
9/12/07 at 12:34am
Voted no though Dom did "preschool" at church for 3 years and Abby for one. THEY wanted to go and I filled that need for them.

They have never been to daily regular school.
post #8 of 28
9/12/07 at 12:45am
Does pre-k count?
Ds1 went to pre-k, which is the main reason we decided to hs.
post #9 of 28
9/12/07 at 2:26am
Yep. For a time we did the school thing.
post #10 of 28
9/12/07 at 4:43am
Dd1 was in daycare from the age of 2, while I was going to school. When she was going on 4, she seemed to have outgrown her previously perfect-for-her daycare, but we still required childcare. I decided on the nearby Montessori school. She went there for about 6 months. My last day of school, was also her last day, and then we went on a long family vacation, before moving to another country. I think the transition might have been a bit awkward, had we not had that other stuff going on, immediately following pulling her out of school.
post #11 of 28
9/12/07 at 7:22am

Yes and no

One went to school until 3rd grade.

One went to Kindergarten.

One has never been to school.
post #12 of 28
9/12/07 at 8:46am
My oldest went through to the end of his 6th grade year, then on homeschooled. My younger two have never gone to daycare/preschool or otherwise.
post #13 of 28
9/12/07 at 9:06am
DD went through the end of 4th grade.

DS went up till K. He had been in developmental preschool for two years (3-4yo) at that point and also a parent-present *playgroup* from 16m to 2yrs and then one without parents for his 2yo year. Yeah..I know : but he has a lot of delays and they conned me.
post #14 of 28
9/12/07 at 9:22am
My younger kids have never been to school.

My oldest went to school in Ethiopia, was homeschooled for 9 1/2 months when she came to us, and then went to school.

dm
post #15 of 28
9/12/07 at 10:08am
I voted other because both of my older girls have done a little preschool, and I don't think that's the same as going to "real" school.

ZM
post #16 of 28
9/12/07 at 10:11am
DD went to preschool for 3 days. does that count?
post #17 of 28
9/12/07 at 11:21am
Yup my 6 yo went to half a semester of kindergarten.

My oldest attends school now, where they are home 3 days a week, and thats the best I could get for him (dh/comprimise) so I'm taking it. He has always gone to school 5 days a week - since like 3 years since he wanted to go so bad (he went to a small montessori for the first 2 years).
post #18 of 28
9/12/07 at 11:29am
I voted yes, but I should have voted other. One of my hsers went to school for a time, but my 8 yr old has never been to school.
post #19 of 28
9/12/07 at 12:53pm
nope, my kids have never been to school at all.
post #20 of 28
9/12/07 at 1:47pm
"Other" -- kinda.

We sent both kids to preschool with the full intention of homeschooling them after, which we are now doing. So neither has been in K-12 school, which is probably what you are referring to.
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