in my last post i mentioned that i was considering homeschooling my kids. right now, i'm trying to figure out if i could handle it.
i used to have the patience of a saint. i no longer do. 4 kids and a frequently crabby husband, have killed that. there are times that i have to fight the kids to even get their homework done. but i suppose with homeschool, we could go at their pace, and they could work ahead on the subjects they are better at. but at the same time, i really enjoy having them gone for part of the day.
i'm torn. i want to be more in control of their education, but i'm also afraid to lose part of my freedom. this is going to take lots of prayer, and research. it's a good thing i have until may to decide what's going to happen next fall.
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Have we talked about how/why I hate (as general principle, not necessarily completely) homework that teachers give?
One of the things I'm preparing myself for, if we do send Alex to public school, is that I'll need to spend a good portion of time with him outside of school to help him deepen his learning. Schools really only get kids through the "knowledge" portion of learning, and occasionally into the "comprehension" area. I know that I'll have to be prepared with different discovery-learning type things for Alex to do after school as part of his homework so that he is able to get through the application, analysis, and evaluation stages of learning; those things won't always happen in a classroom.
If you decide you don't want to handle full homeschooling, you could come up with just an hour or two of after school structured activities that help them through Bloom's Taxonomy, or things that play on their different learning intelligences (like taking the things they're struggling with and teaching them in their MI theory area so they understand better, or helping them learn how to understand more in their weak areas.)
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