Home schooling - DH strongly disagree...

[missjess]

I really want to home school Josh for many reasons. I've been discussing a lot with a friend who is a primary school teacher and she completely confirmed the reasons why I want to home school.

The major major con is my husband... He refuse to hear anything about it, and he doesn't want Josh to be home schooled at all. No matter how much I try, and what arguments I use, he refuse to let me talk.

How can I get him to soften up to the idea??? Any of you had troubles with the DH not wanting this???

I'm completely lost!!!

Thanks xxx

 

[Pyrrhic]

Where I live, there is a private school that will take children part time and complements home schooling and the parents can dictate how many hours they put their child in school and what the balance is. Is there anything like that around you?

 

[missjess]

Where I live, there is a private school that will take children part time and complements home schooling and the parents can dictate how many hours they put their child in school and what the balance is. Is there anything like that around you?

I never thought of that! I don't know if there is something like that around here... I will have to have a look. Thanks !!! I think it would be quite a good compromise!!

 

[Parkep]

hey hun there is a home "school" around here where kids go for a couple hours two times a week i think where they get to interact with other kids ect, plus learn things they cant or didnt at home

 

[mommyof3co]

There are also home school groups where they can participate in sports, playdates all kinds of get togethers that public/private school kids would get to do as well. So they get interaction with other kids...which seems to be a reason alot of people are against it.

 

[marley2580]

What are his reasons for being so against it? Contact some home educators in your area and see if there's a way he can meet people who have been home educated. If he wants he can contact me, I have never been to school and have a 2:1 MA (hons) degree from uni, and I plan to home ed my own children - I'm not socially inept, I'm just a regular mum.

 

[OmiOmen]

I was also going to ask what his issues are with it. If it is social interaction then sport and creative clubs can fill the gap in a much more appropriate way that a school environment can.

I know we are thinking a bit ahead since my little Joshua is not born yet but we worry a lot about schooling. We are not sure we will have one of us at home in the day at that point to do home schooling and I think DH worries about the standard we could offer, we are not sure we can afford privet and the only regular schools I went to as a child (and I went to quite a few) that were any good were Catholic schools and we are both atheists. Also, I am concerned about schooling as a whole and DH is more concerned about secondary school!

 

[missjess]

His main concerns are ''being able to mix well with other children'' which I think is complete BS as we are gonna put him into sports very soon and he already mix up with other children + we go to the baby gym every week where he plays with other children his age.


He's just soooo stubborn..

 

[gina8177]

hey hun there is a home "school" around here where kids go for a couple hours two times a week i think where they get to interact with other kids ect, plus learn things they cant or didnt at home

Which school is this?

 

[Love Bunny]

Luckaly my OH likes the idea of me home schooling karma! Again his (and slightly mine) only concerns is interaction with other kids that age but we would probably find her clubs to join etc etc ... I love the idea of home edding her as I was never allowed to excell in anything as we were always held back and not allowed to move up even though we were ready cause we were "too young" !? Home schooling will allow her to learn at her own pace and also I will be able to teach her the life skills I use! Like sewing and creativity ! Art was always my major subject point but we hardly ever did it in my primary school I deffinatly wouldnt home school her secondary years - as they are out of my league, but primary I would have no problem with!! Plus you get to spend more time bonding and getting to know your LO before they are all grown up and too cool to be seen with mammy x

 

[Rachel_C]

I think I was very lucky in going to two excellent schools and I enjoyed them both and did well, so if I can find some similar schools for my LO I will be sending her to school. Not sure what my OH would say if I didn't want to though! There's what seems like a very nice primary school just down the road from us, but it's high school I actually worry about round here. All I see is teenagers in scruffy mismatched uniforms swearing and spitting in the street... NOT what I want my LO to be part of!

 

[im_mi]

i think there is FAR too much put on 'socialisation'. School doesnt teach children to socialise, it teaches them to sit down be quiet have fun in your allocated time frames for fun and speak when spoken to. Thats not teaching them how to be social. I am home schooling my son, and plan to home school all of my children and thankfully my other half is 100% in agreement.

I would find some books for him on homeschooling/unschooling and let him read the facts and statistics for himself. Ask him how he can expect you to see it from his point of view if he wont even try to see it from yours?

 

[lynnikins]

im planning to homeschool my ds hes only 20 months at the moment so not a big rush but i want to home school our other children when they arrive too, I was homeschooled in NZ after my older sister started suffering as part of the school system when i was excelling and they wanted to put me in the class above her :O can you imagine how humiliating that would have been for her?
I will probably see them through till they are ready for highschool but make sure they have basis in the national curiculim of whichever country we are in at the time they would start and they can either do highschool via corrospondence or attend a regular school but with us supplementing their study at home where needed.
DH's major concern is that they get an education to a equal or higher standerd than children their age in the school system and that they get the nessacary acedmeic acreditations to make it an option for them to go to study at Uni if they chose to,