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hi erin, and welcome!Just seen the convo about home schooling and thought i'd throw my two cents in.i done home schooling from grade 3 through to grade 5 and can honestly say it was the best experience of my schooling life. Before I left normal school I was in the "special" class because I couldn't read or write. Not that I couldn't I suppose, just that I had no interest in it so I would draw instead. And once rejoining normal schooling I slowly worked my way back to the "special" class for kids who had no interest in university. When we left normal school it was so our family could go on a cattle drive. So I would ride my horse and work cattle every day and do school work at lunch time. Ane sometimes if we got a couple of days off we would do two weeks worth of schooling in one go and then spend the next two weeks doing what ever we wanted
in that three years I learned how to read and write at a level higher than my age group and I was a confident, thoughtful, outgoing, and creative kid. we would also stop in at towns we passed and spend a couple of weeks going to school with other kids which was great aswell. But it wasn't until we enrolled permanently to a school that I learned how to really hate myself :p from grade 6 and right through high school was a battle to maintain my sanity (not because I was treated particularly bad, just that I knew how much simpler and rewarding schooling could be) and i've spent the seven years since leaving school trying to undo all the damage... So I'm not saying that all public schooling has this effect, I just thought I would give you my experience. And I know that i'll be doing all I can to be able to homeschool my kids when I'm finally blessed with them. (by the way I did leave school at 17 and later returned and completed year 11 and 12 and went on to university and now work at a rewarding job helping people with their health :p)Peace:)