I can't stop crying :(

This is not the end of the world... I really hope that he does not see you crying over this.

Re-read your last paragraph...that's an awful lot of pressure for a 5 year old. He'll be fine. The public school system isn't THAT bad, is it? I mean they're going to teach him to read and write aren't they? Add and subtract? You can get him involved in extracurricular activities like sports or art.

What you get out of the school experience is up to you. If you stay on top of his grades, know his strenghts and weaknesses...you can make sure he gets the help he needs. Homeschool can be a suppliment, too. It's not just "do-or-die"....you can work with him at home on different things and send him to school too.

It will work out, and everything will be fine.

 

if you choose public school... some can be really good, maybe not educational-differences but the kids that are in it. My mom enrolled me in the school that all the university prof's kids went to for my first few years (until it closed) and it had the craziest, most wonderful, most accepting kids... for 5 year olds they were pretty darn amazing. I also did French Immersion which is really good, IMHO, as a school option, though I don't know if they would offer an immersion program in your area.

What about homeschooling with the plan of putting him into public school in two or three years? That way you can start him off how you want too, but he'll still get all that social interaction stuff.

 

look..i have two little ones..schools don't teach shit anymore..i've paid for mine to go to private and all....and they still didnt' learn shit..it dosnt matter how much they learn at school anyways..what counts his how he applys it at home....and in life...i suggest you just be grateful he has the chance to go to school for free....go to mexico where if you can't afford it you just clean goat shit..or other countries...where they have to make our clothes..it won't be that bad..you'll have to teach him in the long run anyways..the public school system has let us down. word

 

whats so bad about the school he will go to?

 

YOU ARE FROM THE SOUTH, DUMBASS!

OF COURSE THE SCHOOLS SUCK THERE! WORST IN THE NATION!

 

He's incredibley wrong. He has no studies, he is just trying to yank your chain. He has a long history of it on this site. Just ignore it.

 

Atleast if you are an uneducated ignoramous, try not to display it here. Thank you.

 

Thankyou HippyFreak. This whole school thing just has me in knots. I just want to do the best thing, you know? My kids are always with me, and now I will be handing the reigns over to someone else to care for my child, and I just want to be sure that they are in the best learning environment that they can be.

{{{Hugs to you}}}

 

Thankyou DaisyMae. I'm just very over protective of my kids. I honestly don't feel that I'm putting pressure on him in any way though. The feelings that I have (the ones in my last paragraph of my original post) are thoughts that I am simply sharing here, and that I share with my husband. He (my oldest son) is unaware of any of this.

My little buddy already knows basic addition and subtraction and is learning to read and write more everyday, so I'm not worried about any of that when he's in school. He's a little Smarty Pants. I'm more worried of the environment. Maybe this might have more to do with me and my fear of letting go than even the school itself, although I was hoping for him to be accepted to the other one just because it's ranked as one of the highest around here and I've heard a lot of good about it.

But I will admit that I'm having a hard time with seeing him go off to school this fall.

{{{Hugs to you}}}

 

Thankyou for your wonderful thoughts ihmurria, and I agree with what you said, I'm not so concerned to the education as to the children that he will be attending school with. My mother-in-law worked at this particular school and said that many of the children were out of control, very mouthy (even as kindergarten students) and disrespectful, picking fights, etc. We've tried to instill what we believe is right, and everyone keeps telling me that everything I taught him is going to go down the tubes. Even SHE tells me this. It makes me feel desperate!

My husband is trying to reassure me that if we start our son off into the public school system and we aren't happy, that we can always pull him out. He's right, but *sighs* this is all so overwhelming. I suppose I'm just going to have to take it day by day and not worry myself so much. It's so hard though sometimes.

{{{Hugs to you}}}

 

You're right paperclipart. I agree wholeheartedly. That's the whole reason I was considering homeschooling. And yes, I should feel fortunate that he can have a free education in the United States unlike other countries. I just hear so much crap about the schools these days. That's what makes me question enrolling him. But I think what I'm going to end up doing is start him off at the school here, and if we don't like it, then we'll have to go from there. Take it day by day I guess.

{{{Hugs to you, and thanks}}}

 

{{{Hugs Maggie}}}

 

Eh, just really out of control kids, super mouthy, disrespectful, that kind of thing. My mother-in-law worked at this particular elementary school (she's in another one now, in fact, the one in which I was trying to get my son enrolled into) and she claimed that even the youngest students were pretty bad, just out of control, causing a lot of problems. But, part of me wonders if it's like that everywhere anymore?

 

heres my two cents on the situation.... i would never homeschool my children... whenever i have them... just for the simple fact of less interaction with other kids... they'd know no one... they'd always be at home.. would only know the people living around you.... kids need the interaction with other kids.. it makes them more socialable

 

Can't you look into other schools? Surely there are more than two public schools in your city, and some that are decent and not too far out of the way for you to drive to. I know my elementary school wasn't very close to my house, but it was between our place and my mom's work so she'd just drop me off in the morning before work.

 

goes to show how fucking stupid you are..i'm not from the south and didn't go to school here...i went to some of the best military schools my whole life..and yes..the schools do suck down here..just like your mom sucks on your dick everynight

 

Definately I think you should NOT homeschool them. That lack of interaction will afffect them badly in my opinion. However I understand that you don't want mouthy kids just teaching morales to your kids either. Maybe start off in a private and move to public? But I don't think you should wait too long either, maybe by grades 3-4-5. I think public schools are so big that they allow kids to become sociable and that's important and can really only be experienced, not taught.

 

I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER homeschool my children. My mom wanted to homeschool me but once she saw how stuck up homeschooled kids are, that was the end of that (not that I would have let her anyway). Homeschooled kids tend to get the attitude that they're better than everyone, although normally (at least from my observations) they're much farther behind than public schooled kids. My mom did the best (and in some cases worst) thing for me: she supplimented my education throughout elementary school. I went to a truely horrific elementary school where none of the other children knew how to read in kindergarten. I learned to read when I was 3 and was already onto chapter books like the Babysitters Club by kindergarten. I could also add, subtract, and got the basic concept of division and multiplication without knowing the tables in kindergarten, so to keep me mildly interested in school, my mom HAD to give me extra stuff to do. I also got into the gifted program which really helped.

The biggest problem with homeschooling is that parents really can't give their children the full education they need. I mean, my mom is very smart and almost completed her master's degree (but then my brother was born so she couldn't continue), yet she hasn't been able to help me with homework since middle school. Public schools give your children options like language study which, unless you're fluent in another language, you're not going to be able to affordably give your child which will put them in a severe disadvantage for college and just job opportunities. Bilingualism is not only one of the singlemost greatest joys in my life right now, but it's also something that will give me more opportunities in jobs.

That's just my opinion though and I think that if my mom had chosen to homeschool me, I would have been resentful of it and missed out on alot of great opportunities public school has given me. The MOST important thing a parent can do is make learning fun, no matter what the environment. The people who whine about public school being horrible are the people who don't have parents to watch their backs and make sure they're getting exactly what they need. My mom has been on my school's administration's butts for as long as I can remember to make sure they're doing their job, because it's normally not the teachers' faults. I also go to a large school where it's easy to slip through the cracks if parents don't step it up. But, like I said, instilling a good attitude about learning and school in general is the defining quality of making public school work.

 

Listen, biotch. ANY opinions and/or studies that contradict what you believe are underminded and immediately dimissed by you with out any basis for such dismissal. You are closed minded and hard-headed. To not even entertain the notion that there are better ways than what you presently know of is a grandiose display of ignorance on your part. You, my friend, are all talk and no bite. I'm guessing not even gamefully employed. Thanks for reading, anyway.

 

You mean you've gotten that stupid from attending Northern schools? Anything is possible, I guess.