RE: My Children are Free!!!

@cygon, thank you for your comment! I will answer your questions that best I know how:

Did you find they had any socialization issues going from home school to public school the first time?

Last year we were in a demographic with a hearty bunch of wealthy kids, and my daughter was bullied a bit because we were living in a shelter and she got made fun of for her limited wardrobe. This year we got our house back and we're in the right school district...my son was teachers pet, my oldest daughter made fast friends, and my 6 year old daughter was a very popular fashionista, wearing jewelry everyday, and always taking her Shopkins filled purse to school. They are all extraverted. I, on the other hand, left highschool as an angsty, angry, almost mute, isolated, depressed teen. "Socialization" did nothing for me.

Also for better or worse school trains you to work in the system. More than likely that's going to be important for your kids to be able to do at some point. How do you prep them for that?

At the church I used to attend, most of the members had already successfully homeschooled their kids into adulthood. We had an engineer, a couple linemen, a nurse, a couple of daughters whose job it was to draw up blueprints for their father's tiny-home business, a couple homemakers. At this point in time, "the system" has room for everyone. :)

My children are no different, they will find their way. By the way, I'd like to point out a couple of things that traditional school doesn't teach everyone:

How to take care of finances
How to start your own business
How to clean up after yourself or keep house
How to cook your own food
How to care for a baby/child

Don't you think these are important things to learn as well? Our school system fills our head with knowledge that is useless to most of us, and our teenagers are screwing around and catching stds in the name of socialization, we are prepped for university, in which most of us won't even get a job within our major, then we're leaden with debt for the next 30 years. Just my take on it. ;) I am happy to bypass the entire thing, send them to a tech school to learn a trade if they wish, and let them take the joys they gained into adulthood. Just me.