ShaunaRB
06-02-2009, 11:52 AM
Hi everyone,
My husband and I are completely at wits end and I feel like I'm failing as a mother, so I'm hoping everyone can help me with this.
We have 3 daughters (ages 15,14, and 10). Our 15 and 14 year old is the immediate concern right now. We live in Baltimore, MD, where the city public schools are most definately not the safest (especially high schools)! We started our girls in public school (it was considered the best city public school in the area) until 6th grade. Safety issues arose then and we ended up putting all 3 girls in a Catholic school. This past year the two oldest girls started high school, and again, we put them in a catholic school because the public high school they would have to go to is most definately not safe for 2 girls. The financial strain has been horrendous! It's now the end of the school year and we're being told our girls can't take the exams because we still owe the school 1 1/2 months of tuition, which probably means they won't be going to 10th grade next year, whether it's private school or not. I started looking into homeschooling and how possible / impossible it would be, especially considering their ages. Will they adjust to home schooling, will colleges hold it against them when they see my girls were home schooled the last couple of years, is it even possible to homeschool when their father and I both work full time jobs? There's so much going through my head that I could cry, and I'm in no way the crying type! Anyway, sorry I got off topic...
So I go online and try to find answers on home schooling and that just seemed to make it more confusing, if that's possible. I'm hoping some of you can give me pros/cons of homeschooling, your opinion on my concerns stated above, and the most important question... Where do I begin???
ANY help would be so greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks so very much!!!
My husband and I are completely at wits end and I feel like I'm failing as a mother, so I'm hoping everyone can help me with this.
We have 3 daughters (ages 15,14, and 10). Our 15 and 14 year old is the immediate concern right now. We live in Baltimore, MD, where the city public schools are most definately not the safest (especially high schools)! We started our girls in public school (it was considered the best city public school in the area) until 6th grade. Safety issues arose then and we ended up putting all 3 girls in a Catholic school. This past year the two oldest girls started high school, and again, we put them in a catholic school because the public high school they would have to go to is most definately not safe for 2 girls. The financial strain has been horrendous! It's now the end of the school year and we're being told our girls can't take the exams because we still owe the school 1 1/2 months of tuition, which probably means they won't be going to 10th grade next year, whether it's private school or not. I started looking into homeschooling and how possible / impossible it would be, especially considering their ages. Will they adjust to home schooling, will colleges hold it against them when they see my girls were home schooled the last couple of years, is it even possible to homeschool when their father and I both work full time jobs? There's so much going through my head that I could cry, and I'm in no way the crying type! Anyway, sorry I got off topic...
So I go online and try to find answers on home schooling and that just seemed to make it more confusing, if that's possible. I'm hoping some of you can give me pros/cons of homeschooling, your opinion on my concerns stated above, and the most important question... Where do I begin???
ANY help would be so greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks so very much!!!