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[Perhaps she now realizes why teachers go through 4-5 years of college to become a teacher??]
So, we are on day five of our first year of homeschooling our son (the girls are still in public school). It has been a rough 5 days. I didn't buy a prepkg'd curriculum because I thought I could do without it and make up my own with the "What your Fourth Grader should know" books and using a curriculum outline from another (better) school district to guide me on what to teach.
THus far we have had at least 4 arguments (son and I) about the work. Lots of workbook pages (lang. arts, math, reading (Cricket in Times Square), plus vocab words, spelling words, etc. He fights tooth and nail (except, oddly, with reading the book, which I expected the most aggravation with). Today he pouted and asked when I was going to teach him, and I told him so far he KNOWS what we're doing bc its REVIEW...and there is nothing 'new' yet to 'teach'...long story short, I ended up telling him to find his school clothes (they wear dress code) and I'd wash them so he could go back to school on Monday. He said: "But you just filled the paperwork out to take me out of school", and I replied: "So, I will just look like a fool and tell them we coudln't do it, and you can go back with your friends." (I was very upset at this point). He started to tear up and say he didn't WANT to go back to school, and I asked why and he said he was bored there. BIG FRUSTRATED SIGH!
Scrappergirl,
Rapture Ready 44 Comments [9/10/2008 12:36:50 AM]
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