Have your hs kids ever been schoolkids? - Page 2

[Milakais]

Nope. They're babies.

We do go to some parent-present playgroups, and one of those playgroups we've gone to in the past did happen to have been put on by the local Waldorf school. I don't consider a parent-and-child, non-academic free-play session to be "school" though, regardless of where it's held. (However, I found the people at the Waldorf playgroup, particularly the staff, kept pressuring us/having expectations that we'd be enrolling our kid(s) in the school when they were older, even after I made it clear that we're planning on homeschooling and thus not interested in putting our children in school, so we don't go to that playgroup anymore.)

[emmsmama]

Ds went to JK and is home with me now for SK and I hope to homeschool him for at least the primary grades. Dd has gone to school since JK and is now in Gr. 3 in public school. I hope to hs her in the future.

[panamama]

yes...right up until june. DS went for 10+ years of K-9th grade, more if you count preschool. he loved it up until about 4th grade. now we are getting ready to deschool then home/unschool and hopefully undo the damage of the last 5+ years. : wish us luck!

[Dar]

Yep. Kindergarten, half the year at a crunchy reggio emilia charter school in Oakland, and half the year at a teeny (under 10 students) private Montessori school. That was enough...

dar

[alima]

Yup. Daycare from 14 months to 5 yo when I was in college then working.

Pre-K for about a month, not a good experience.

Montessori kindergarten for 6 months, even worse experience.

Public K for the rest of the year, much better experience, but not a safe school (gang violence, 8yo's with knives, routine lock-down drills)

A safer, but larger and less flexible public school french immersion program for gr. 1 + 2, horrible experience, I was on the verge of hiring a lawyer when I finally decided to give up on school and hs.

Hsing for grades 3-6.

Ps again for grade 7, ds had an ok time, nothing bad about it, but nothing particularly good, either (plus ds being assigned colouring pages in cooking class : )

Hs again since last year for grade 8, ds is now in grade 9 and will be hsed through "graduation" (which will be whenever he decides he wants to be a real grown-up, if he decides to hs past 18 we'll just tell colleges he was taking a "flex year" or two, or five )

[UUMom]

Originally Posted by alima

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Public K for the rest of the year, much better experience, but not a safe school (gang violence, 8yo's with knives, routine lock-down drills)
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In CD? That's depressing.

[4evermom]

10 half days of pre-k at age 4.

[stacim]

My oldest (11) went up through 1st and #2 (8) went just for pre-K. I was working full-time at the time, but now I am home full-time and in a crummy school district. Private school is out of the question b/c of $$$, not that I would send them just b/c we had the $$$ if we did. DD (5) and of course the 2 yo have never been to school.

~Staci