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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
NG, I was harsh wasnt I? Like I told you privately, these threads always get the best of me because people always say the same things about how unsocialized the kids are....you just happened to bare the brunt of my aggravation this time...and it wasnt really directed at YOU....but towards everyone that says things like that, because whereas it USED to be like that more often than not, these days it isnt. People that say things like that without seeing how a good organization works make me feel like Im a crap mom because I dont let my daughter ride a school bus or sit in a lunchroom full of kids everyday.
My daughters group include both religious and non religious curriculum. I didnt have any "fears" about her being corrupted, my fear was her actual education. The government school system still hasnt learned how to adequately deal with gifted children, which Amanda is and I wasnt having her go thru the same things I went thru since I was the same way. A homeschooled child has a way bigger advantage because they are not stuck just learning the things that are taught in a particular grade. If she sucks at math (like I did and like she did for awhile) she can work on one level of math while advancing in the subjects she excels in such as history and science. AND she can have the time she needs to really be able to grasp whatever fundamental she's lacking at.
You know I got nothing but love for ya!!!! ( can I have an each hand cookie?)
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You can have each hand twice cookies
Since my kids are 14 and we did not have computer access at the time they would have started school, I didn't have the necessary tools and information. The one former friend's homeschool circle was a christian-based one; I'm not even sure how much access she had, only that her adamancy about what her daughters would be learning was very, shall we say, fundamentalist. My nephew hated school so much, he quit in 9th grade and his mom home-schooled him, but very casually, the other end of the spectrum.
My son,like your daughter, is a VERY high-achiever; he was in the G&T program, but his ADD was coming into play and I had to pull him out due to his constant frustrations-not that he couldn't handle the type of work given, he didn't have the ability to organize. He also didn't know how to interact with kids-still doesn't really, but it's more because he thinks like a 30 year old instead of a kid his age.
Believe me, I thought long and hard about keeping them out of the school system until at least high school age.
The ironic part to this whole thing, going back and forth about how to best educate my kids was what his 6th grade math teacher told me: "He doesn't belong in a public school. He's too advanced, try and get him to a private school". Well, I don't have 15 grand lying around....I'm hoping he can keep his grades up enough in high school to participate in the early college enrollment program(they can start college a year earlier if they meet the requirements)
I guess the bottom line is we're the ones that have to make these decisions and if we're pro-active, we will make the right ones. I don't think I would have been able to keep up-I can't make heads or tails out of their math work at all. On the other hand, my daughter writes very well and knows she can come to me for help there anytime.
Some districts have a part-time curriculum in where the kids can take some of the more basic classes in school for half a day and continue at home or in another venue. The reasons vary, from having a handicap to having it coincide with homeschooling. This may be something the OP can seek out as well.