So my husband and I have been thinking about homeschooling our kids. Which apparently according to mainstream America is a crazy idea.. but why is that? Is it because we are afraid to do something that is different from what we may have grown up with? Is it because of the stigma placed on home-school parent (as well as home-schooled kids) that they are different? I grew up being called different, among many other names, and I hated it. I hated school. It prettified me to get on the bus everyday and to walk through those doors. I never really concentrated on an assignment after I started middle school because I was too hurt or scared of what the other kids were going to say to me.
Bur that is not the reason I am strongly considering homeschooling my children.
I am considering it because in the NYS public education system today a child is a number and a test score and nothing more. Their individuality is frowned upon and if they are loud or energetic they are given a prescription and asked to be quiet.
That is not the environment I want my son and daughter spending 40 hours a week in.
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