Candy
09-13-2006, 08:31 PM
Hello to everyone!
I am very new here and am really needing some quick assistance...
I will try to make this brief, but it's kind of a long story. We have two daughters (9and5) and we had planned to HS our oldest from the beginning of last year. Our youngest daughter, on the other hand, we have really gone back and forth many times about what was best for her this year. We ended up signing her up for public school about 2 weeks before school began in Aug. Then a week later we called and told them that she would stay home with her sister. They handled it fine, and said no problem and to let them know if things change. So we began HSing and I felt completely overwhelmed. Our oldest DD has some learning issues that require a lot of my independent attention. We also have an infant... so I felt it was crazy. In hindsight I wish I had given it some more time to establish a routine, which we have now. The short version is so many people were encouraging me to place my youngest in public school as way to alleviate my stress. I finally agreed it would be best. Here we are 3 weeks later and it's more stress than I could have imagined! She hates it, cries every morning, and now is pretending to be 'sick' so she can stay home. There are many other reasons why we all hate it but at the risk of keeping this from turning into my first novel, I'll skip them:lol:
So we now know for sure that we want to keep her home, but are nervous to confront the school because of all of our indecision. I am worried they will red-flag our family with the state in some way and just make our lives difficult.
We would really appreciate any advice or suggestions anyone may have about how we should approach this with the school. We called our HS association to ask them and no one answered and did not return my call.
Thank you for reading through all of this :)
Sincerely,
Candy
I am very new here and am really needing some quick assistance...
I will try to make this brief, but it's kind of a long story. We have two daughters (9and5) and we had planned to HS our oldest from the beginning of last year. Our youngest daughter, on the other hand, we have really gone back and forth many times about what was best for her this year. We ended up signing her up for public school about 2 weeks before school began in Aug. Then a week later we called and told them that she would stay home with her sister. They handled it fine, and said no problem and to let them know if things change. So we began HSing and I felt completely overwhelmed. Our oldest DD has some learning issues that require a lot of my independent attention. We also have an infant... so I felt it was crazy. In hindsight I wish I had given it some more time to establish a routine, which we have now. The short version is so many people were encouraging me to place my youngest in public school as way to alleviate my stress. I finally agreed it would be best. Here we are 3 weeks later and it's more stress than I could have imagined! She hates it, cries every morning, and now is pretending to be 'sick' so she can stay home. There are many other reasons why we all hate it but at the risk of keeping this from turning into my first novel, I'll skip them:lol:
So we now know for sure that we want to keep her home, but are nervous to confront the school because of all of our indecision. I am worried they will red-flag our family with the state in some way and just make our lives difficult.
We would really appreciate any advice or suggestions anyone may have about how we should approach this with the school. We called our HS association to ask them and no one answered and did not return my call.
Thank you for reading through all of this :)
Sincerely,
Candy