We tried when my oldest came out as trans. We were concerned with bullying. He was just starting high school and we went with a partial online solution. I got him through math the first semester (Algebra) but then he failed an online history class. Turns out he was copy/pasting from Wikipedia and he never looked at his graded assignments (which had warnings). The teacher had even been emailing him, warning him about plagiarism. But he never read them. Then he failed and we realized that he really needed the structure of a real classroom and that we just didn't have time between work and our middle child's care (he is special needs). He had been an honor student. Turns out he didn't get bullied at all.

Generally, homeschooling in Europe is considered weird. Kids miss out on socialization and life lessons, as well as the issue of having one teacher (mum or dad) teaching you all subjects. A parent really is not an expert at all subjects. Exposure to different teachers, different teaching styles and rules, is critical. I had such a laugh at school with my friends - I would hate to be with my parents all day! There can be some need to home school - you live in an exceptionally rural area, your child is gifted or your child has additional needs. Apart from that, kids need to be in school.

Nope! Public schools here are good.

I never did. My oldest daughter went to a very good grade school and high school. My second daughter was in her school for kids with learning disabilities. I wanted my son to go there too, but they started to mainstream kids, so he went to the public school. I did interventions during their schooling, to be sure they were getting what they needed, but I never felt the need to homeschool. Besides that, I was working as a nurse, so it would have been a challenge. I absolutely had to work, although I was able to work three 12 hour days a week, which gave me time at home. I would have hated to homeschool also, so i never did.

I don't mind some people homeschooling they're kids but there are those parents who aren't prepared to offer the assistance in the same way a teacher could

I am.

I home schooled my eldest daughter for 9th and 10th grade. she decided that she wanted to do an online high school to finish out her high school and had to take test all subjects to go back due to Georgia’s low standards to home schooling. She passed all her test and went on to graduate high school at the top of a class of over 300. Now she is on a full scholarship to Mary Baldwin University.

Our homeschooling curriculum was simple we got her research material for history, math, language, science, and anything else she wanted to learn. She would read the research material and ask me questions, then we would have discussions at night over what she was learning.

I was lucky she is very intelligent.

I didn't but my kids had a summer curriculum that I presented with some input from their teachers.

Yes, all of my adult life.

Half and half. Good taste. I love my mom who is a freak. Gave birth to another freak. Haha.

No

I am to old to be Home schooled ! Besides to disruptive ?? LOL

I home schooled my kids until old enough for middle school, and by then their PSAT tests showed them at upper college level, and that they were qualified for the teacher program.

I hadn't meant to home school them..they pretty much took over, started reading and speed reading as toddlers, after they began asking me to show them the phonics sounds used for the alphabet, so I used the Sing, Spell, Read and Write song series, seen on youTube.

My daughter learned to read during a commercial while we were watching a movie, when she was two years old.

She was reading 200-page books by the time she turned 3 years old, both kids doing algebra at five-they thought of algebra problems as fun "games" of finding "Mr. X", doing mental math with long strings of numbers at six, doing science experiments at five, etc.

They'd get 200 books from the local library every ten days, and each would have read five books before we got home. I had to keep going further afield to university libraries to find new books for them.

It was almost all self-directed learning..I only required them to gather books from the basic subjects each trip to the library, i.e. stacks of autobiographies and biographies of famous people on one trip, science and animals on another, human bodies and physical science at another time, etc.

I home schooled my son for 9 years.