School decision help?

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I encourage you to homeschool if you think it is the better choice for you and her.

Before having children myself, I think homeschooling did makes sense for large family, and certainely NOT for only children.
But now, I think more, if homeschool may be the better choice, why not having sibllings should prevent it?

Children don’t need to be 80% of the time (except sleeping) with others children. The priority of instruction should be instruction. At home with a mother fully available the knowledge and capacities are more quickly learnt. It gives some hours every day to do others things such as going out for park, cultural, sportive activities and seeing others children as your child seems to need a lot.

As you live in a highly populated area and in a country where homeschool is popular, I don’t believe their is no others homeschooled families near you. As you have one year to dig the possibility, I would start now to contact organizations, to ask questions and met others homeschooled families.

It is the key to be more confident. A family I am in contact with have start their preparation and network since before the birth of their first one. Now they have found several organisations and things and their homeschooling is more a sucess than me.
Rosalie said:
There’s a Catholic co-op, but it only meets once a week.
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If you met the families you may agree on private meetings outside the “co-op” for eg.

I think the only barriers would be if you don’t want it or if your child don’t accept to be taught by her mother or feel really boring.
 
I hope you are wrong about this coming year. Shutting down schools is a disaster for the kids.
 
It depends on the kids and the families.

For some in less priviledged families it is very difficult for their parents to managed their instruction.

For many olders kids and teenagers I think the tempatation of virtual life, video games, social networks and TV is winning over their motivation to work.

For many parents it will become a big problem to work with chilren full time at home or only part time at school.

But some children and parents found themselves in their element with school at home. And certainely would like to continue.
 
I’m worried that everyone is going to hold their kindergarteners back a year because of the plan for this fall and then there will be a huge group of K students next year.
 
Lots of us are worried about dumb decisions with regards to schools this fall.
 
whoo…
First you give a paying link, so it doesn’t add any support for argumentation.

The school at home was organized in emergency. Nobody would believe a few months before that the governments would shut down the schools! everybody insisted that it is very important to socialize children and schools are unavoidable for the balance of EVERY KIDS.

It is easy to understand that not all teachers were prepared to do distance instruction to 30 students.
And the students and their families weren’t all prepared.

All the teachers were not formed or have the material to do virtual classes. Not all the families have internet connexion (yes, it existed, teacher’s wife, here), or the computer to have the online classes.
Not everybody know how to do visioconference (including me). Not all parents followed their children’s education. Truly some parents’ of my husband’s students were even preventing their children to have access to the lessons that the teachers send them either by email or by post mail.

But it is easier for children from upper classes, for teacher’s children, and for some families they really enjoy the opportunity to be together all the time. A sweet pose in a world that run against the time all the time.
 
Rosalie said:
I’m worried that everyone is going to hold their kindergarteners back a year because of the plan for this fall and then there will be a huge group of K students next year.
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Can you explain what the problem is?

If many people choose to keep their children at home for another year, the following year, there cannot be more children in school that what was excepted before the sanitary crisis. I would only be back to normal.

Unless you fear that the authorities would close classes/or schooled during the crisis?
 
In our state, if you feel your 5yo is not ready for Kindergarten, you can just submit a form and wait until the next year. So if a large amount of people decide to do that, there will be a bunch of older kids in the cohort of kindergarteners and it will be a larger group overall than usual. They’ll have to find more teachers, etc. There will be the same amount of students in schools, but fewer first graders and way more kindergarteners. If I’m making sense. There are already rumors that 20% of the teachers in the next county have resigned or retired. So not only is the school going to be scrambling to figure out what to do with this larger than normal group of kindergarteners, but she’ll probably be one of the younger kids in the class because she has a spring birthday and a lot of kids with summer birthdays already get held back by their parents. Edit: because the cut off date is in September.
 
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Anicette said:
Can you explain what the problem is?
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Say 50% of the K parents kept their children out. Then this year’s classes would be half their normal size. Then next year, first grade would be half the normal size, and so on.

However, following that small year’s cohort would be a group that was half again as large! And it too would follow through the years.

If there are usually about 4 K classes, then they would only need 2. But the following year, they would need 6.

It would be a difficulty as schools would have to switch teachers around, and some years there would be too many teachers and some years too few, when the cohorts were moving through years where teachers need to be licensed for that level, or where the students change schools, so you couldn’t just switch the teachers around because there would be no place for them.
 
Thank you, Annie. That’s a much better explanation. And obviously not an immediate worry, but what about when it’s time for college? It will be a super competitive year! I applied the first year the common app was accepted everywhere and it was like a bloodbath at my boarding school. Okay, exaggeration, but it was crazy.
 
Oh, my, I hadn’t even thought about twice as many students applying for college! And the small cohort will all be in like Flynn!
 
I know! And apparently it’s already hard to get into UVA from here because they have to spread the acceptances around the state and we have an overabundance of high achievers. Hopefully not that many people will hold kids back… But the plan right now for our area looks like two days in school, two days of distance learning. I’m not sure what parents who both work are expected to do. I get that this is a small aspect of an ongoing global crisis, but I have anxiety issues and it’s what my brain is hyperfocusing on.
 
Instead of being super stressed just homeschool for the next year as a trail run. You would not be missing a year and you can see how it functions for you. If it doesn’t work, stop it the next year. Simple.
 
I’ve honestly never been a fan of “remote learning.” There are online homeschool “charter schools” in many states that require public school enrollment. But homeschool and school-at-home are entirely different things. We just tried the latter and hated it.

Normally, we order curriculum, and I teach. It’s much easier that way, and I’m more in touch with my children, how well they’re understanding the material, when we need to take a break, etc.

I’m getting a paywall, too, but I’m not sure why WSJ had such high expectations of this eleventh-hour educational experiment.
catholiclala said:
Instead of being super stressed just homeschool for the next year as a trail run. You would not be missing a year and you can see how it functions for you. If it doesn’t work, stop it the next year. Simple.
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This is what I did with my son. Homeschool preschool takes about one hour daily. I realize the OP is Eastern Orthodox, but I used this and highly recommend it. Catholic ABC’s: A Hands-On Preschool Curriculum
 
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I have absolutely no doubt there are huge differences between what successful home schoolers do and what the vast majority of Americans did this past spring. That won’t change this fall if we are dumb enough to shut schools again.
 
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the people i know who homeschooled their children joined with other homeschooled familys and did regular social gatherings with them and moms took over little groups of teaching and made it feel like a regular school as far as interaction and it was small groups so much better then a large school A child can feel very alone in a big school that forms clicques , there are plenty of downsides there. Great people in history are plenty who were schooled alone at home, Your child will grow up very fast and go out into the world and go to college, dont worry.
 
Good day Ms.Rosalie! I’m just 15 years old and I don’t have children at all, I don’t know a lot. I don’t think that there’s a big age gap. It’s better because according to the psychologist this can help your child to understand the meaning of the word “leadership” and age gaps at least 3 years can also help to have a smarter kids. So this is a great thing! If I do have a child I would home school him/her. Why? It is a great idea to home school your child especially during this striving times, it would be too dangerous outside. Our priority was to keep the kids safer and having a better place to live. It’s a great option to stay home and home school your child to avoid harmful bacteria. This can also help to provide a good bonding time with your child. Children are not quite immune with this virus. I hope I helped! God bless you!!!
 
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