Yeah homeschool them, i was homeschooled and i turned out ok.
homeschooling is good if you are willing and have the time to put in the effort to actually teach your kids. You can buy books on any subject for every grade online and at your local half priced book store, or at most libraries which means free resources. so its totally possible for them to have access to all the knowledge kids in public school get but you have to do the work. Also you have to do the work in making a schedule for them and helping them stick to it because that structure is good for kids, but you get to decide what that structure looks like and how strict it is which i think is good because it means you can personalize it to your kid's and your family's needs while at public school they just have to work with the system they get even if its not right for them
as for socialization, it is very important, but you can find tons of home schooling groups and programs with other parents in most cities. put your kids in summer camp to learn skills they are interested and they will get to socialize. they will grow up learning social skills in a different way than their public school peers, which for some homeschooled kids ive met made them feel outcasted and bullied, but overall just creates unique people that are more natural at "thinking outside the box" which i think is a good thing.
i think the kids who had a bad experience with homeschooling were usually neglected by their parents in some way so just dont do that.
I was homeschooled by the way
my mom gave up on teaching me because of her depression a couple of years before i went to public school in 8th grade, so i was just not learning anything academic for 2 years with very little monitoring, i was just alone in my room, on the computer, or in my back yard most of the time. the isolation i had growing up forced me to build a very strong imagination and creativity, but also made me inclined to losing touch with reality and not having normal social skills lol so i had to learn skills to keep myself grounded in reality and learn social skills as i got older.
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Did either of you homeschoolers have siblings?
I wonder if siblings goes a long way towards the socialisation need
I would put them into play groups, clubs, extra curricular activities etc too
The next thought would be what kind of curriculum to follow if any (unschooling interests me but seems potentially harder to do well)
And the requirements of the state.
Empath said:my mom gave up on teaching me because of her depression a couple of years before i went to public school in 8th grade,
Where there no regulations for homeschooling where you live?
Tbh there should be regulations for who can and cannot become a parent