What was your school experience like?

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.

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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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Private, would choose again

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Cancelling Easter…

So my step son (11) lives with us full time we’ve started with an issue of him stealing little stuff from school, taking his brothers clothes from his mums here without anyone knowing ect but now
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He has now gone through all the chocolate we hid for Easter that was also his two little brothers and he’s gone through the stuff my mum brought round for them. So now iv got just over a week with hardly any money to try and get all the Easter stuff back. We’ve sat and spoke about it and why he feels like need to just take and we get a “i don’t know” or “it’s just snacks”

My thing is should I re buy him Easter stuff or leave it as a “you’ve already had you Easter early behind our backs” he’s not missing out completely because he has Easter at his mums but I feel like there’s nothing more we can do other then put locks on cabinets so he can’t get in them but that’s just stopping him from getting to the thing he wants not necessarily him learning 🤷🏻‍♀️
My partners just in that “can’t be arsed” “just replace it” where we have 1 child together and 2 step children and a baby on the way so just constantly going out and replacing stuff really isn’t happening ☹️ he’s agreeing with not giving him anything for Easter but I feel guilty about it but he has teqnically had his Easter + more…

We have also spoken to his mum about it and she just says she has locks on the doors and she did it as a kid and laughs about it which just feels like shes validating what he’s doing.

Sorry for the rant just wanted to see other people opinions and views as I feel so guilty to cancel Easter for him but at the same time we don’t have the money to re buy everything he’s gone through 🫠

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Feeling guilty for resting

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MIL making me feel like I’m not doing enough

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Since my LO was born, we have suffered with extreme reflux which is now getting treated and has improved so much. I have massively struggled with PPD/PPA. I feel I’m constantly running on fight or flight (like the most of us probably). However, I’m getting comments from my MIL that makes me feel as if I’m not doing enough for my baby.
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Just to add! She is very much involved in his life so I don’t think she feels left out as she will herself take him on a walk, look after him for an hour.
I now feel up to taking him to a class as he seems happy to lay on his back so I booked one for next week and happily said to her today that I have booked one! Which I am rather proud of myself for doing. I was given a comment ‘finally’.
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