Homeschooling

Question: Questionnaire for homeschooled students (part 1)?

My husband and I are planning to homeschool our girls (currently 3 and 1) and we've read a lot of material at parents but I'd like to get the perspective of homeschooled students themselves. Please share your experiences! Here are some questions to start off and any other comments are welcome. Thank you!

1) During which ages or grades were you homeschooled?
2) Why did your parents or guardians choose to homeschool you?
3) What type of Homeschooling did you do? (particular curriculum, unschooling, etc.)
4) Who was/were your primary teacher(s) (mother, father, both, self)?
5) How did your teachers handle subjects with which they weren't familiar themselves (e.g. foreign languages or advanced math)?
6) Describe a typical school day for you (if you can!), at various ages if possible.
7) Were you homeschooled alone or with siblings or other students?

Answer: My son is with me to answer these... I'm a MUCH faster typist than he is.

1) During which ages or grades were you homeschooled?

from the middle of 7th grade through 8th grade. I returned to public school for high school.

2) Why did your parents or guardians choose to homeschool you?

Because my middle school was awful. Also, my mom spoke with a teacher once who said, "he's just so well behaved, he just sort of fell through the cracks"... She said she was sick and tired of me falling through the cracks.

3) What type of Homeschooling did you do? (particular curriculum, unschooling, etc.)

My mom says that on the "spectrum" of methods for Homeschooling, we were closer to "unschooling" but not quite. She would download the objectives for my grade from the public school web site to make sure we were covering what I needed to know to be okay once I started in high school (and I am, by the way -- in honors classes and a tech magnet program)

4) Who was/were your primary teacher(s) (mother, father, both, self)?

Both me and my mom, but my dad would help with history and math when he could because those are his favorite topics.

5) How did your teachers handle subjects with which they weren't familiar themselves (e.g. foreign languages or advanced math)?

Both my mom and dad were fine with the subjects for 7th - 8th grade. Mom says that if I had wanted to continue Home Schooling through high school, I would have taken some classes at the community college for more advanced topics.

6) Describe a typical school day for you (if you can!), at various ages if possible.

There was no "typical" day. Each day was different depending on what we were studying. Mom would incorporate a lot of skills into any subject I was interested in. Like, I was very interested in model rockets. So, that was science but I also had to write papers about it and explain mathematically how high a rocket could fly... stuff like that.

7) Were you homeschooled alone or with siblings or other students?

I'm an only child... or as my mom likes to put it, I am "sibling free"

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