Years Behind In Homeschool

One of the homeschooler s worst fears.

Years behind in homeschool.

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. Home school is flexible you are in charge. 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. 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.

So you can t truly be behind. 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. So being behind just isn t a disastrous thing for us. You can make the decisions about what when and how to teach your children.

Jamie i struggled with being behind all year. Homeschooling let me grow at my own pace. This is especially true in the younger years. You are the teacher mom.

I even had homeschool moms telling me it was a mistake to a repeat grade. Homeschool is not transplanting the classroom experience and environment into your home. A brief history of homeschooling. I have spent all year stressed that he is 1 grade level behind.

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. Yes you made a plan. My child is behind. And the one that will keep you up at night.

We don t get government funding based on how well we can shoehorn kids into batches. My child is behind in high school.