Friday, November 10, 2006
free at last!!!
My child is no longer in school. I have withdrawn him to home school. I am very happy about it. DH is being a dick about it. To recap the history:
He was always home schooled until last March when I got fed up with his refusal to do any work and put him in public school for 3 months. After his adjustment, he liked it. I told him all summer it was his choice whether he wanted to go to 3rd grade. He decided the day before it started that he would go. We had home work battles from the start. I had asked him to stay for one month before deciding if he wanted to stay. Then dh talked him into staying until he got his first report card. he got it last weds night. dh knew all along that he might not stay in, and that i did not want him to stay in. he has been playing lots of mind-games with the child. still is, telling him he is sad that he isn't going any more. I am furious at his behavior and his lack of support. I tried my best to be supportive of him being in school, though I hated every minute of it. I wish I had never made him go last year, and never given him the choice to go this year. And then dh had the nerve to be angry when our son refused to go the day after the report card. He was trying to talk him into to staying til the end of this month. Then it would have been the next month, then the next.....I am angry. THe child made his choice and it needs to be respected. But no, he is still trying to talk him into going back. And forget UNschooling....he thinks we should be sitting down for hours every day doing school work. In the past he was always supportive of home schooling. Now suddenly he thinks school is great. "he's learning!" blah blah blah. Well I am damned determined that my children will never go to school again, if I have anything to say about it. And we will be VERY relaxed home schoolers.
He was always home schooled until last March when I got fed up with his refusal to do any work and put him in public school for 3 months. After his adjustment, he liked it. I told him all summer it was his choice whether he wanted to go to 3rd grade. He decided the day before it started that he would go. We had home work battles from the start. I had asked him to stay for one month before deciding if he wanted to stay. Then dh talked him into staying until he got his first report card. he got it last weds night. dh knew all along that he might not stay in, and that i did not want him to stay in. he has been playing lots of mind-games with the child. still is, telling him he is sad that he isn't going any more. I am furious at his behavior and his lack of support. I tried my best to be supportive of him being in school, though I hated every minute of it. I wish I had never made him go last year, and never given him the choice to go this year. And then dh had the nerve to be angry when our son refused to go the day after the report card. He was trying to talk him into to staying til the end of this month. Then it would have been the next month, then the next.....I am angry. THe child made his choice and it needs to be respected. But no, he is still trying to talk him into going back. And forget UNschooling....he thinks we should be sitting down for hours every day doing school work. In the past he was always supportive of home schooling. Now suddenly he thinks school is great. "he's learning!" blah blah blah. Well I am damned determined that my children will never go to school again, if I have anything to say about it. And we will be VERY relaxed home schoolers.
# posted by Anne @ 6:28 AM 
