Home Schooling

[Mousebaby]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

 

[wineo]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

Call pupil services for the school and talk to them, 301-475-5511 x198. Someone there should be able to tell you what other options you have.

 

[USWWarrior]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

Not helping him? Whats the issue?

 

[rdkarob]

Not helping him? Whats the issue?

Do you really have to ask that question?

 

[migtig]

Ya know, I may be mistaken, but I believe forumite Sharon homeschooled. Perhaps you should send her a pm and ask for her input.

 

[sockgirl77]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

Is it possible to get him transferred to another school?

 

[Chasey_Lane]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

This might be a start: Southern Maryland Homeschool Network

 

[USWWarrior]

Do you really have to ask that question?

I wasnt meaning any harm, since I have a child that will be in high school in 2 years, I am gathering information as to how the school is and if I should move now or later or not at all.

 

[camily]

I need some advice about how to get started in home schooling. I need to get my son out of GMHS. They are not helping him in any way and I frankly find that school very frightening! Please if you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it! TIA!!

I would start with a heaping dose of Valium.

 

[Sweet 16]

I believe this is the curriculum my SIL uses to homeschool her kids. Calvert School: Home

 

[Plan B]

Ghetto Mills High is a great place to learn how to make your way in the world of the future.
If he needs special help, seek it. If he is a good kid, he has to try harder despite the miscreants loose there. Running from the reality of his peer group wont help. And mostly, are you qualified to home school?
You can transfer to another HS when there is openings, but you gotta drive them there. LHS used to be good...

 

[itsbob]

And mostly, are you qualified to home school?
...

Scarey part is EVERYONE is .. You don't have to take a test.. prove knowledge of any subject. Not saying this is the case here (I really don't think it is) but you could be a sixth grade dropout and homeschool your kids.

 

[K_Jo]

Scarey part is EVERYONE is .. You don't have to take a test.. prove knowledge of any subject. Not saying this is the case here (I really don't think it is) but you could be a sixth grade dropout and homeschool your kids.

Sweet! How much does it pay?

 

[itsbob]

Sweet! How much does it pay?

Every PENNY that you're worth!!

 

[Dymphna]

Ghetto Mills High is a great place to learn how to make your way in the world of the future.
If he needs special help, seek it. If he is a good kid, he has to try harder despite the miscreants loose there. Running from the reality of his peer group wont help. And mostly, are you qualified to home school?
You can transfer to another HS when there is openings, but you gotta drive them there. LHS used to be good...

you don't have enough facts to condemn her decision. She didn't say the school was all bad. She said the school wasn't helping HER child. And with all the crap that goes on, you can't blame her for finding it a little scary.

I had a friend once, whose son was the class geek. He was in 2nd grade, I think, and he was picked on by the other children. Mom went so far as to email the guy who was the class geek when we were in school for advice on making things easier for her son. The teachers couldn't do anything when her son was being pushed around on the playground, because they didn't see it. Mom recognized that her son was socially inept and a magnet for bullying. He went from loving school to hating it and refusing to do his work, even though he was the smart kid who knew all the answers.

So she homeschooled.

 

[Mousebaby]

Ok, due to the fact that I respect my son's privacy I cannot say why or how the school is not helping him. I appreciate all the input. I am not running from anything, but I also don't want him hurt in one of the brawls that goes down in that school again! I have been here long enough to know that most of St. Mary's County schools are not qualified to deal with certain things. Unfortunately moving is not an option for us. I am more than qualified to home school him. Unfortunately a lot of schools, not just in this state, are falling behind. My sister homeschooled her daughter and her daughter graduated by the time she was 16 and is now attending Duke University! Again, thank you for your help!

 

[sanchezf]

Ok, due to the fact that I respect my son's privacy I cannot say why or how the school is not helping him. I appreciate all the input. I am not running from anything, but I also don't want him hurt in one of the brawls that goes down in that school again! I have been here long enough to know that most of St. Mary's County schools are not qualified to deal with certain things. Unfortunately moving is not an option for us. I am more than qualified to home school him. Unfortunately a lot of schools, not just in this state, are falling behind. My sister homeschooled her daughter and her daughter graduated by the time she was 16 and is now attending Duke University! Again, thank you for your help!

Would you like to homeschool my son?

 

[theArtistFormerlyKnownAs]

you don't have enough facts to condemn her decision. She didn't say the school was all bad. She said the school wasn't helping HER child. And with all the crap that goes on, you can't blame her for finding it a little scary.

I had a friend once, whose son was the class geek. He was in 2nd grade, I think, and he was picked on by the other children. Mom went so far as to email the guy who was the class geek when we were in school for advice on making things easier for her son. The teachers couldn't do anything when her son was being pushed around on the playground, because they didn't see it. Mom recognized that her son was socially inept and a magnet for bullying. He went from loving school to hating it and refusing to do his work, even though he was the smart kid who knew all the answers.

So she homeschooled.

So it makes more sense to have a kid that happens to pass school and is book smart but yet unable to deal with people in the real world? Sorry, that doesn't work for me. I would like for my kids to know that as important as it is to do well in school, the social aspect of school is equally, if not more important.

Would you like to homeschool my son?

if someone else homeschools your child (i'm assuming at their house now, not at yours lol) is it still "home"schooling or is it "house"schooling?

 

[Dymphna]

So it makes more sense to have a kid that happens to pass school and is book smart but yet unable to deal with people in the real world? Sorry, that doesn't work for me. I would like for my kids to know that as important as it is to do well in school, the social aspect of school is equally, if not more important.

He wasn't dealing with the real world when he was in school, he was withdrawing. Yes, the social aspect of school is important too and she took that into account, she just had more control of the children he associated with. Church, family, neighborhood friends and she eventually put him in a private school, but in the meantime, he didn't get behind in his schooling.

Back in the day, the only kids that were homeschooled were religious freaks and anarchists hiding behind barbed wire fences... oh, and kids who were too sick to go to school, but they got tutors from the school system. But that's not the case anymore. There are lots of people homeschooling their children because they aren't happy with the public schools. And it's happening more and more with "no child left behind." because the kids who traditionally got a good education from public school are getting left out, left behind and held back with NCLB so that it gives the appearance of the other catching up.

There are lots of homeschool networking groups. CSM offers supplemental classes for topics where parents might not have the skills or resources to do it themselves. Places like dance and gymnastics studios have classes catering to homeschoolers so that the children have interaction with their peers and also get some physical education instruction. There are lots of social opportunities for homeschooled children.

 

[theArtistFormerlyKnownAs]

He wasn't dealing with the real world when he was in school, he was withdrawing. Yes, the social aspect of school is important too and she took that into account, she just had more control of the children he associated with. Church, family, neighborhood friends and she eventually put him in a private school, but in the meantime, he didn't get behind in his schooling.

Back in the day, the only kids that were homeschooled were religious freaks and anarchists hiding behind barbed wire fences... oh, and kids who were too sick to go to school, but they got tutors from the school system. But that's not the case anymore. There are lots of people homeschooling their children because they aren't happy with the public schools. And it's happening more and more with "no child left behind." because the kids who traditionally got a good education from public school are getting left out, left behind and held back with NCLB so that it gives the appearance of the other catching up.

There are lots of homeschool networking groups. CSM offers supplemental classes for topics where parents might not have the skills or resources to do it themselves. Places like dance and gymnastics studios have classes catering to homeschoolers so that the children have interaction with their peers and also get some physical education instruction. There are lots of social opportunities for homeschooled children.

But are these opportunities really comparable to "random social interaction"? The kids going to these things are usually all homeschooled right? This just means that they are all at least fairly similar to each other. That isn't real social interaction, that is like talking to the mirror. Real social experience comes from confronting problems because you are different or your view differs from someone else. All the situation you described encourages is running away from your problems (kid couldn't handle school, kid leaves school to get away from the problem, not solve it).

I speak from experience cuz i fall under the "was homeschooled because of an illness" thing. That was a year of my schooling thrown down the drain because I was having medical problems. I still went out and saw friends that i had before i had to stop school, but that wasn't too often and it also wasn't me meeting new people really. I honestly don't think i can recommend homeschooling to anyone except someone wanting to get an easy ride. Thats all that the schooling was for me. I was sick, so i basically had to, but that was the easiest schooling i've ever had really...i've done experienced every type of schooling. Elem/middle was catholic schooling, public high, a year of homeschool. By FAR, public highschool was the best of all of them. It gives you all the interactions you need while also offering classes that can challenge you IF YOU CHOOSE to take them.

but whatever works for you i guess. i'm just saying that i wouldn't recommend sheltering my kids like that :shrug: