Comments on: Some People Don’t Get Home Schooling

By: alyson@worldtravelfamily

alyson@worldtravelfamily — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:22:56 +0000

In reply to Cass. Thanks for commenting Cass, these old posts get buried a bit, thanks for letting me know you were here. Good luck with whatever educational path you choose.

By: Cass

Cass — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:17:11 +0000

I am a mum of 4 kids. I have 3 in primary school and we are happy with that ( for now) and one at home ( he’s only 15 months), but I really want to homeschool during high school. When I mention this to people some say ” oh that’s good” and then we get into an agreeable conversation about how schools these days aren’t for everyone ( though neither is homeschooling), but others have no idea. They don’t research. They make all these assumptions and some are quite rude!

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:48:48 +0000

In reply to alyson@worldtravelfamily.

That teachers are leaving the system should say something to people – but even though my husband and I are both teachers, our friends still look at us like we are crazy and don’t know what we’re talking about when we mention homeschooling. Ah, oh well.

I like the feistiness sometimes 🙂 But I have just started having a look around on the other website too. Group hugging sounds much more calm 🙂

By: alyson@worldtravelfamily

alyson@worldtravelfamily — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:36:46 +0000

In reply to Jessie.

Jessie, you wouldn’t believe how many teachers I know who won’t send their own children to school. Just about all of my closest HS friends are ex teachers. Good luck! ( I’d forgotten I ever wrote that post by the way, I was really feisty back in those days, have you seen our other site http://homeschoolgrouphug.com ?

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:50:49 +0000

As a trained teacher, I can definitely say that a lot of teacher ‘training’ is woefully inadequate anyway, and in a school you end up doing 90% behaviour management — probably teaching a subject you weren’t ‘trained’ for anyway.

I’m not a teacher anymore, and I’m becoming more and more convinced that I don’t want my daughter to go to school for her education — there are just so many flaws and issues with that system, I just couldn’t stand it!

My daughter is only young – just about to turn two. But I’m trying to get a good head start on how to naturally incorporate homeschooling into our lives — rather than just when she turns five and we have to make it official. And hopefully by then I’ll have my own answers to the criticisms that I know are going to come — even from our own family.

So I really appreciate your site — we are thinking of travelling at some point too. Your articles are really helpful!