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[mompenguin]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this.  I am seriously considering homeschooling are youngest.  We have one in college, one in highschool, one in middle school and one in elementary.  The eldest 3 are loving their schools.  And so is our youngest.

However, I am not crazy about the elementary school.  I absolutely love his teacher and he has been doing very well academically.  BUT, he is picked on at school an awful lot.  Both verbally and physically and the admin doesn't seem to want to do anything about it.  They tell me that he is "new" and younger than his classmates (he gets along very well with his classmates).  The school never notifies me of the incidents- my son comes home and tells me, then I have to call the school and the story is always confirmed.

Anyway, he loves his class and doesn't want to be homeschooled.  He is 9 and in fourth grade.  He is very social (is known as the class clown, etc) and I'm afraid that he would be lonely at home.  Since moving here we've looked into different activities for him but there is very little that is primarily english speaking (we are in a small town not too far from El Paso) and we don't speak spanish.

So, I'm not sure how to start this.  Since my son isn't thrilled with the idea, dad thinks we should wait until the end of the school year(!).  I don't know how to get my son more excited about the idea.   I also don't know how to get my husband to be more supportive as well.  But he can't keep being bullied.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated!

Thanks.

ETA: My husband is now 100% for homeschooling.  Our son, however, still is not for the idea saying that he would miss his friends too much.

 

 

 

 

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[Joanne27]

Hello I know how it is making the decision to home school if you feel in your heart that it will be best than you should do it. For you youngest I would just start now but for the older ones I would wait until the end of school the year is almost over anyway.

This is our second year my oldest is six and in 1st grade. I have a bunch of great info about getting started home schooling as well as lots of advice to help you make your decision the link is in my siggy below. I  hope it helps message me anytime!

Joanne

[jen2150]

I would probably let him continue out the year unless he wants to leave.  You need to introduce him to some homeschool groups.  Show him how much fun he can have with the homeschool groups.  Most people especially kids don't realize how homeschooling works and how much fun it can be until they are doing it.  It was exactly that way with me.  I enjoy it way more than I ever thought I would.  You can even let him help pick out a lot of the materials you use.  Homeschooling I think works much better when the whole family is doing it.  Try it for a year and then if you don't like it then you can go back to school.  If you decide to not to homeschool.  I would get after the bullies.  Let them know you will not tolerate it.  Bullying is a crime.  Let your school know you will not tolerate it.   Name calling is called assault.  If it is physical as well then that is assault and battery.  Good luck

[mompenguin]

Thank you for your replies.  My son keeps saying that he wants to stay in school "but only to see my friends- that's the only reason."

Today he was supposed to point out 3 boys, 2 of which held him back and the third hit him in the stomach last week.  He was told to tell the playground monitor when he saw them so she could tell the vice-principal.  He saw them and told her and she told him not to worry about it because they weren't bothering him right then.  So another call into the vp.

I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that homeschooling would be the best for him but I've been looking online and haven't seen any groups really close to us that seem like they get together on a fairly regular basis- but I'll keep looking and I can at least get him into some activities (hopefully).

Thanks again!

[LollaLeeLou]

Nuff said in my mind.

Quoting mompenguin:

I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that homeschooling would be the best for him   

[bren_darlene]

 I totally agree. You said yourself that you know it is best. As parents we are to do what we know is best for our DC. School is supposed to be for education. It is seriously lacking in that area and is seriously lacking in teaching kids any good socialization.  When I first began home educating my DC over 17 years ago they complained at first because of their friends they would be leaving behind. They later made a couple good homeschool friends and said they didn't miss the others. We have had many great years and we now have some school aged grandkids that are being home schooled :)  I still have 3 children at home that I am schooling.

Quoting LollaLeeLou:

Nuff said in my mind.

Quoting mompenguin:

I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that homeschooling would be the best for him