Oh I wish but my hub does not support the idea of homeschooling at all. He may have no choice when our schools here in CT lock his kids out for not being injected with mRNA … I very much see all this as being in God’s hands.
Oh I wish but my hub does not support the idea of homeschooling at all. He may have no choice when our schools here in CT lock his kids out for not being injected with mRNA … I very much see all this as being in God’s hands.
So much goes into that decision and most have no experience to go on outside the public school model. When I was figuring this question out, I went to home school conventions and talked to people to hear what their experiences were and how they were doing it. I also researched the topic as much as possible. I had to accumulate quite a bit of input before I could come up with a paradigm for schooling in my own mind. I had grown up in the public school system but I graduated HS in 1969 in CA which was prolly the high point of our school systems. It has been all down since. At the time, CA was considered to have the best education system in the country. Now I consider the CA school system to be nothing but a cess pool people dump their kids into. I will say this: 1) Do not attempt to duplicate the institutional school model in a home school. I observed this is how parents became burned out as home schoolers. Use the self-study model just as if they were in college. 2) KISS is the secret to curriculum (Keep It Simple Stupid). Model it on the 3 R's. Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic.
Short of that I would look for a Christian day school. That may give you the best fit.
Reading: classic literature, history and biographies.
Writing: On reading assignments or freelance.
Mathematics: I considered the most important subject closely followed by history. Math was required as the first subject of the day while their minds are fresh. Makes problem solving a lot easier.
Oh I wish but my hub does not support the idea of homeschooling at all. He may have no choice when our schools here in CT lock his kids out for not being injected with mRNA … I very much see all this as being in God’s hands.
So much goes into that decision and most have no experience to go on outside the public school model. When I was figuring this question out, I went to home school conventions and talked to people to hear what their experiences were and how they were doing it. I also researched the topic as much as possible. I had to accumulate quite a bit of input before I could come up with a paradigm for schooling in my own mind. I had grown up in the public school system but I graduated HS in 1969 in CA which was prolly the high point of our school systems. It has been all down since. At the time, CA was considered to have the best education system in the country. Now I consider the CA school system to be nothing but a cess pool people dump their kids into. I will say this: 1) Do not attempt to duplicate the institutional school model in a home school. I observed this is how parents became burned out as home schoolers. Use the self-study model just as if they were in college. 2) KISS is the secret to curriculum (Keep It Simple Stupid). Model it on the 3 R's. Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic.
Short of that I would look for a Christian day school. That may give you the best fit.
Reading: classic literature, history and biographies.
Writing: On reading assignments or freelance.
Mathematics: I considered the most important subject closely followed by history. Math was required as the first subject of the day while their minds are fresh. Makes problem solving a lot easier.