This is the presentation I made on a 20 page paper I have written on homeschooling entitled ‘The homeschool advantage.’ In my paper I detail several aspects of homeschooling and make a cohesive argument for the alternative method of homeschooling. In my 6 minutes speech I was invited to give, I had substantially less wiggle room so I picked a point I thought would generate the most controversy/discussion. It kind of worked, but I guess I needed more time to build the argument. Anyway, here the piece, I’d love to hear comments, if you agree, disagree, etc. I love a challenge, so don’t just read, think about it and tell me why I’m wrong. Oh, and beware, it reads how I wanted to speak it, now how it should be written
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I remember a story my mother shared with me as a child about a young boy whose family moved to a new town and he was enrolled in a big and intimidating new school. The story, which I’ve now found to be written by Mary Schramm, Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe I could have called this something like what I wish I’d known when I was in homeschool, or life after homeschooling or something like that, but essentially, I want to share a little bit of what I’ve learned about how to be successful after homeschool.
My situation is thus, I grew up in California, being one of seven kids in our family, we were all being happily educated in that great state’s public school system. I made it into second grade and found myself in a bilingual class, everything the teacher would teach would first be in English, then we would do it again in Spanish. Due to some frustrations other siblings were also having with their respective situations in school, my mom made the decision to pull us all out and this began our, and her own, homeschooling career. So going in, I could read short chapter books and do subtraction. :)
So I’ve been homeschooled my whole life until my freshmen year of high school, at which point, I felt like I was missing something, so I went for that year, decided it was a waste of my time, took my GED, and am now in my senior year of college. This post is what I would, and have many a time, muse if asked for advice from a homeschooler, or from a mother or father who is considering homeschooling.
First, homeschooling is not for everybody. It’s not for every family, it’s not for every mother, and it is certainly not for every child. I have argued many a debate with Read the rest of this entry »