I wish I'd have known this starting out. I wish I'd have known that it's actually LESS work to just homeschool your child, than to be an "involved parent" at school.
We've enjoyed elementary school with our older boys. *Most* of the teachers were actually pretty competent and caring (the others, I save for another blog post, another day...). We had the children involved in extra activities like the Spanish Club or Service Club, or choir, and they got a fair bit out of the experience.
But it's a LOT of work.
You get about a ton of worksheets that must be done by a certain time. Usually on a day when you're sick or have no time. You get the phone calls about this or that, and about a zillion sheets per day that sometimes contain important news, so you MUST go through them daily. The schools also *love* to throw in half days, teacher in-service days and early dismissals. Not so bad, unless you have children at more than one school and the schedu…
I look forward to it!
ReplyDeletePeople have many different views on autism, so yes it can be thought provoking! Discusion is good.
Okay go ahead and thump me....I didn't realize you were dealing with autism. And I don't have any reason to disagree, I don't know much about it, so I look forward to learning. xo
ReplyDeleteI will be reading too. I am excited to read the posts.
ReplyDeleteI want to know more about it. I am curious which side your on...one of the people who thinks there are so many more cases of autism then ever before, or one of the people who thinks they just never diagnosed all the cases properly before.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit it's concerning that it seems to be so incredibly widespread these days. What is going on?
Put a whole post up for ya, Catherine!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read more! :-) I'm really bad . . . I haven't done anything official about autism awareness, but then again, I post about it every month year-round! LOL
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