Deeanne Gist - www.deeannegist.com - Inspirational Romance Author

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

All That And Homeschool, Too?

I guess since I attend a lot of homeschool conferences while peddling my chore system, folks have mistakeningly thought I homeschool my kids. But, alas, I don't. My kids are all products of the public school system.

Unfortunately, the high school my kids attend is way too big. My daughter's graduating class had 1200 kids. And my son just hated it. With a passion. So, we took him out and enrolled him in a one-room high school. It was much like homeschooling, except instead of being home and being schooled by his parent, he was in a one-room building with 14 other kids, working at his own pace, all overseen by a supervisor.

This year, he begged me to let him complete his senior year at home. So, I broke down and it looks as if, for this year anyway, I'll be homeschooling one. But he only has one core class left (which he will take at the community college up the road) and the rest are electives. Our main hurtle will be the whole SAT/ACT thing.

Speaking of which, today's the first day of school for my three high schooolers and we'll be taking our firstborn off to college tomorrow. So, I won't be posting until Friday. I'll let you know how it goes. (Big gulp.)

posted by Deeanne at 10:23 AM

1 Comments:

Barb said...: That 14 student set-up sounds like the high school of my dreams...
My husband took our daughter across the country to college for the first time a few years ago, and came back saying oh she did great, everything's fine, no problems! 6 years later I found out she cried when he left her, and he knew it. I coped with her being so far by sending her funky fun goodie boxes every week of the school year for 4 years, which she--and her roommates--enjoyed getting, of course. Sort of like my pennance for the guilt of sending my firstborn child off into the big faraway unknown. But some of the nicest thank you notes I ever got were from grateful college students she shared her boxes with. You'll do fine, dear, and so will your little one!