I won't make you sit here and read all the details about why we started homeschooling my now 10 year old K. It was a long drawn out process. I will say that she started at a Christian School that our church started. She went there from Pre-K to 2nd grade. After the start of 2nd grade due to some teacher issues, I pulled her out and put her in the local public school. At the end of her 2nd grade year, I enrolled her again in the Christian School because I was comfortable with the teacher that she would have. She stayed at the Christian School from 3rd grade until the beginning of her 4th grade year.
Once she began her 4th grade year, we had some of the same problems that we had experienced in the previous years. I scheduled a conference with the teacher to try and explain some of the things that the counselor we were taking her to had suggested. Other teachers had tried his suggestions and it made things better.
I sat in the classroom with the teacher and the principal. The teacher looked me right in the eye and said "I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. Your child annoys me." I will just say that K did not return to the school. This was on a Thursday. I spent the whole weekend praying and looking into my options. Homeschooling was the only solution that I could see. I was still working 4 days a week at the time. It was possible to take her to work with me and sit her up a desk in my office for her to do her work. So that is what we did.
If someone would have said to me that I would be homeschooling my child, I would say they were crazy. I raised two boys and both went through the public school system and made out ok. But if there is one thing that I have learned in life it is to never say never.
Currently, I am only working as a Pampered Chef consultant. So I am able to be at home with K during the day. It has been a slow start but it is a joy seeing her not only learn but learn in a way that works best for her.
Everyone that knows her has said that she is a much happier child. I agree. She is able to be herself not be forced to fit into some mold that the private school wanted her to be in or get lost in the crowd at the public school.
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