Yep. Just started this year. The Littlest Who is going to Kindergarten at a private (and reasonable) school up the street, and I'll be teaching CDTG at home. We were absolutely fed up:
1) CDTG was bullied almost every day in FIRST GRADE, punched in the stomach even!; 2) the way she started treating her sister; she adored her sister before, but the way that the kids talked about their siblings and parents really rubbed off on her; 3) her growing lack of respect for authority; the teacher didn't expect it, so, the kids didn't give it; 4) the lack of learning. They studied leaves and the parts of the tree for 6 months, but she doesn't know what a noun is, or that a sentence ends with a period. 5) we move every two years; she needs some consistency... 6) we wanted her to actually be able to experience the wondrous historical sites that this area affords, and they took two field trips all year long: one to the Kennedy Center to see a play about at a cat (which is really cool, but...) and one to a nature park to look at TREEEEEEES!!!!!! OF COURSE (see item number 4); Mt. Vernon is 10 minutes from our home... why not go there? Or to Arlington? Or a tour of the Pentagon? or to one of the millions of free museums downtown????
We aren't doing it to cloister or hide our kids away from the world. We do not wear long denim skirts (sorry, that's a homeschool stereotype/joke). We just want the best possible education for our girls... and right now, this is how we are going to do it. We are taking each year as it comes, but now that we are starting, I think it will be hard to go back.
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Date: 2011-09-08 06:02 pm (UTC)1) CDTG was bullied almost every day in FIRST GRADE, punched in the stomach even!;
2) the way she started treating her sister; she adored her sister before, but the way that the kids talked about their siblings and parents really rubbed off on her;
3) her growing lack of respect for authority; the teacher didn't expect it, so, the kids didn't give it;
4) the lack of learning. They studied leaves and the parts of the tree for 6 months, but she doesn't know what a noun is, or that a sentence ends with a period.
5) we move every two years; she needs some consistency...
6) we wanted her to actually be able to experience the wondrous historical sites that this area affords, and they took two field trips all year long: one to the Kennedy Center to see a play about at a cat (which is really cool, but...) and one to a nature park to look at TREEEEEEES!!!!!! OF COURSE (see item number 4); Mt. Vernon is 10 minutes from our home... why not go there? Or to Arlington? Or a tour of the Pentagon? or to one of the millions of free museums downtown????
We aren't doing it to cloister or hide our kids away from the world. We do not wear long denim skirts (sorry, that's a homeschool stereotype/joke). We just want the best possible education for our girls... and right now, this is how we are going to do it. We are taking each year as it comes, but now that we are starting, I think it will be hard to go back.