parias1126
03-30-2006, 11:30 AM
Hi all!
I am new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I just pulled my 13 year old daughter out of school to homeschool her (our 2nd attempt). She was homeschooled prior to this when we lived in Florida for the 4th and 5th grade. After moving here and everyone telling me how wonderful the schools were, I put her back in public school, not to mention that we were living in a hotel for 4 months waiting for our home to be built here and I had a 3 month old and a 22 month old at the time. She had already missed so much with relocating and such.
Anyway, I wish now that I would had never put her back in school when we moved. They held her back to do 5th grade again so she was fine last year. Of course, because she was repeating everything she had already learned. Well, when she went to middle school this year, everything went from bad to worse. The last straw was the school telling me I should have her tested for ADD (AGAIN!) so I went to have her tested and I was told by the ped that she needed a vision test and an IQ test. I took the script to the school and the counselor's exact words were, "We don't tell them how to medicate and they don't tell us how to educate". I was so upset with her response. Needless to say I found a psychologist and had all the testing done myself, took her to the eye doc, etc. She ended up missing so much school for all the testing she needed to have done because one test turned into another. The school sent me home a letter after her missing 4 days because of testing (not all consecutive) that she would be retained if she missed anymore days. They won't do the testing and I have to get it done myself, but she will be retained if she misses anymore school. Hmmm...
I just couldn't take it any longer, kept her out of school after receiving the note and sent in my NOI.
I also have a 3.5 year old whom I am starting to homeschool (very casual though) and 2 year old who will also be homeschooled.
I look forward to getting to know everyone here and hearing of your experiences and using this board as my support outlet since I haven't really found a homeschool support group that quite "fits" yet.
I am new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I just pulled my 13 year old daughter out of school to homeschool her (our 2nd attempt). She was homeschooled prior to this when we lived in Florida for the 4th and 5th grade. After moving here and everyone telling me how wonderful the schools were, I put her back in public school, not to mention that we were living in a hotel for 4 months waiting for our home to be built here and I had a 3 month old and a 22 month old at the time. She had already missed so much with relocating and such.
Anyway, I wish now that I would had never put her back in school when we moved. They held her back to do 5th grade again so she was fine last year. Of course, because she was repeating everything she had already learned. Well, when she went to middle school this year, everything went from bad to worse. The last straw was the school telling me I should have her tested for ADD (AGAIN!) so I went to have her tested and I was told by the ped that she needed a vision test and an IQ test. I took the script to the school and the counselor's exact words were, "We don't tell them how to medicate and they don't tell us how to educate". I was so upset with her response. Needless to say I found a psychologist and had all the testing done myself, took her to the eye doc, etc. She ended up missing so much school for all the testing she needed to have done because one test turned into another. The school sent me home a letter after her missing 4 days because of testing (not all consecutive) that she would be retained if she missed anymore days. They won't do the testing and I have to get it done myself, but she will be retained if she misses anymore school. Hmmm...
I just couldn't take it any longer, kept her out of school after receiving the note and sent in my NOI.
I also have a 3.5 year old whom I am starting to homeschool (very casual though) and 2 year old who will also be homeschooled.
I look forward to getting to know everyone here and hearing of your experiences and using this board as my support outlet since I haven't really found a homeschool support group that quite "fits" yet.