Public school or homeschool
Trying to decide for my toddler and I’m learning people had very different experiences with their own schooling!
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If you’re talking about our kids experience, they used to go to a one room School house that was a charter school and it was absolutely amazing. 40 kids and they were like a big family.
Now they go to a public school and it’s been good overall but it’s just not a special experience as the School house was.

Whether your child will benefit from homeschooling depends on a lot of different factors. I was homeschooled from kindergarten through senior year and it was great for me but my little sister didn’t like doing only homeschooling so she took in person classes in addition to the homeschooling classes. You also want to be sure your child is keeping up with what kids are learning in public school A lot of states have yearly reviews or tests for homeschool students. In Florida I can access the public school curriculum for each grade online, so you might want to look into if that’s available where you are if you end up choosing to homeschool

I loved my public school experience if I had the same exact teachers and experience throughout schooling I would do it all over again but for my kid I'm going to be homeschooling him just because I don't like how there are bad people/things in this world I feel like 50 years ago there was less scary stuff to worry about You just say okay have fun in school to your kid but now you have to worry oh gosh like someone brought up school shootings Even though they're rare cases of school shooting Even technology has been becoming a big thing or I don't want him in 6th grade knowing what marijuana is yes I know that That's the real world when he's an adult he's going to be exposed by that but I just want him to be pure as long as possible and but I don't want to shelter him I just want us to teach him at the right moment You know you shouldn't be knowing what marijuana is or what weed is in sixth grade in high school that's when he can be introduced if he wants to be a computer guy that's fine I just don't like

that in public school they don't give a sheet of paper anymore

My husband and I both went to the same public middle school and high school and we had great experiences. Unfortunately the school district we are in is horrible at the moment so our kids go to private school. My children would absolutely hate if I homeschooled them.

That's not a bad option you can private school then that is another option that we have in mind

public, my mom wouldn’t have homeschooled me well so i’m glad i went to public school but i will not be choosing that for my child.

Private, would choose again