My daughter just started her very first year of school this year and she is in the 5th grade. Prior to that I homeschooled her.
I never intended to be a homeschool parent, but when it was time to place my daughter in kindergarten, the home that I could afford was zoned to a school that was underperforming academically and the students had serious behavior issues (it was definitely one of those “pipeline to prison” environments), and I could not afford private school. I did not want to place my little girl in that type of environment, so I decided to homeschool her, and we stuck with it.
Over the summer, I found a really nice charter school, and my only regret is not finding it sooner (but you don’t know what you don’t know. The school was actually founded the year she would have been in second grade, so it wasn’t available during the time she would have been k through 1st grade).
It has only been one week in school so far, and it has done wonders for her confidence and self esteem. I can tell already that she will thrive in this environment. She told me that she loves “turn and talk time”, which is a time following when the teacher presents and idea and poses a question, the students are able to speak with each other to share ideas on the topic. My daughter is so pleased with so many aspects of the school and the classroom, it would take me a long time to detail them all. She is learning so much, and I can see that her mind is being stimulated and she is so engaged and enthusiastic about academic learning, which is something that I was not able to inspire, no matter what I tried.
She told me that its much better than me being her teacher. And she is so right. It makes me feel really guilty for ever homeschooling her in the first place. I do not regret keeping her out of the public school system though. She went to day camp this summer and the public school kids were BRUTAL. So much negativity and deviance and degeneracy. I would have felt like a failure if my child behaved and spoke the way those children behave and speak; I simply did not want her in that type of environment, and I stand by that.
I did the very best that I could with the resources that I had. It’s not so much that I regret homeschooling, I just hate that the schools available to people at my socioeconomic level are environments that have very dismal outcomes. I am so proud of the child that my daughter is; I have done an excellent job with her so far, and it is reflected in the beautiful energy that she has. I am very happy that she is now in school being educated by professionals and in an environment each day with her peers, whose parents have done an equally excellent job in cultivating and maintaining the beautiful energy in their children.
Submitted August 17, 2024 at 05:26AM by MurkyIntroduction983 https://ift.tt/6cb9niA
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