I know you used to homeschool but you do not anymore. Since stopping, have you found any blogs or support groups or anything of like for Christians with kids in public schools? Our kids are going to school in the fall and I am NERVOUS.
Oh, yes. Nervous. The decision to stop homeschooling was one of the hardest ones I’ve ever had to make. Lots of nightmares about whether it’s worse to send my children off to be eaten by wolves, or simply to cut our losses and eat them myself.
We’re very, very happy with our charter school, and more or less happy with the public high school, but it wasn’t easy to figure out how to get what we needed, appreciate the good things we hadn’t anticipated, fix the things that weren’t working, and let go of the rest.
I have written a bit about our transition. First, there was Why We’re Dropping Out of Homeschool, which includes a photo of something that would make Charlotte Mason herself make tracks for the admissions office of the nearest Stefani Germanotta Memorial School.
Then I wrote one actually useful one for the old Faith and Family Live: From Home School to the Classroom: Tips for Transition.
And then I wrote this quiz for the Register: Home School to Classroom: A Quiz for Anxious Parents, which I intended as a self-deprecating jaunt into the realm of parody, but which many homeschoolers took as proof that I’m anti-homeschool, as well as anti-education, anti-child, and plus I make yearly pilgrimages to poop on the grave of Elizabeth Anne Seton. (I’m not, and I don’t. I’m just anti-sticking with things that just aren’t working anymore.)
So, back to the reader’s question. Have you made this switch? Do you have any advice, or do you know of a discussion group or something for people dealing with the transition? Or at very least, can you offer a prayer for the reader’s peace of mind? Thanks!
