Years Behind In Homeschool

One of the homeschooler s worst fears.

Years behind in homeschool.

My child is behind in high school. You are the teacher mom. The modern homeschool movement began in the 1970s when john holt an educational theorist and supporter of school reform began arguing that formal schools focus on rote learning created an oppressive classroom environment designed to make children compliant employees holt called for parents to liberate their children from formal education and instead. So you can t truly be behind.

We don t get government funding based on how well we can shoehorn kids into batches. Maybe their 7 year old isn t reading their 12 year old is having trouble with multiplication or maybe their 9th grader hasn t learned biology. A brief history of homeschooling. Which means of course that i am a horrible homeschool mom and my child will have no future worth considering and will consequently completely fail at all of life.

I even had homeschool moms telling me it was a mistake to a repeat grade. And the one that will keep you up at night. All because of me. And today part of how i earn my living is by writing.

You can make the decisions about what when and how to teach your children. So being behind just isn t a disastrous thing for us. This is especially true in the younger years. You see when we took our son out of public school we realized he was behind and had him repeat his current grade in our homeschool.

Homeschooling let me grow at my own pace. I was way behind in reading for years. Homeschool is not transplanting the classroom experience and environment into your home. There is no behind in homeschooling something i see frequently both online and in person are pleas from parents asking for help because their student is behind.

Jamie i struggled with being behind all year. Home school is flexible you are in charge.