When should you put kids back in school after homeschooling?
BevK October 8th, 2007
When should you put kids back in school after homeschooling? My answer — never. I’m a long term homeschooling is a lifestyle homeschooler. Still I know that folks do put their kids back in school for a variety of reasons. But this one is not a good reason.
“Homeschool is wonderful when they’re little, if you can do it,” said Barbara Vogel, an Easton mother of two sons who homeschooled them for 10 years before they returned to public school this year for the latter part of high school.
“My feeling as a homeschooler is that they were better off to be protected in the early years socially,” said Vogel, “but once they get into eighth or ninth grade, the whole social thing of being with their peers becomes so much more important.”
8th or 9th grade is just when public school is at its most vicious socially. Anyone remember junior high? Why does being with their peers more for high school suddenly become a good idea? At that age peer pressure suddenly becomes a good thing? I don’t get it.
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