-=> Quoting Alinda Harrison to Connie Byrd <=-
 AH> RE: Home Schooled becaus od A
 AH> BY: Connie Byrd to All on Mon Aug 05 1996 10:22:00
 
 > Hello everybody. Is anybody  in here home schooling because your
 > child had Attention deficit disorder ?
 AH> My third child, age 8, is the one I feel really needs the
 AH> homeschooling. Her older sister is totally sold on the idea, but
 AH> Rebecca wavers from day to day in her enthusiasm. The thing is, she
 AH> ends up doing most of her public school work at home anyhow! What ended
 AH> up happening last year was that the poor child would be stuck with as
 AH> much as 10 hours or so of school a day! She had the 6 hours at school
 AH> and then up to four hours after school completing the assignments she
 AH> had trouble sitting through at school...yes, she's on medication. The
 AH> school just sends her home if she doesn't have it.
 Yes I had this problem with my oldest son. Now 11.  We tried everything.
 I felt if I had to spend 4 hours on homework or more a nite then I mite
 as well do it myself.  This way he will at least get a break.
 AH> She is a very bright child who marches to the beat of her own drummer.
 AH> The prob;lem is that it's not the schools drummer. In fact, sometimes I
 AH> think the drummer's on some other planet somewhere!  
 Some children like my oldest do not function in a standard educational
 environment.  My son was extremely depressed in school.  During the summer
 you can see a really big change.  If he was going back it would start all
 over again.  He needs a classroom that travels his own pace.  That is partly
 what homeschooling is about.  To give the children a chance to learn in a
 more relaxed, at your own pace atmosphere.  This is going to be my first
 year at homeschooling.  My feedback from others have been they tend to
 learn more and faster due to the relaxed and one to one atmosphere.
 My second child doesn't know whether he wants homeschooling or not.  Like
 yours, yes one minute, no the next.  But they are beginning to get excited
 as I will be using the computer too.  They even asked me to help wash the
 walls (which they actually did help) so we could hang the maps and eraser
 board up.
 My third child is gifted (I believe) she should be a cinch to teach.  They
 wanted to know yesterday that if they know all their stuff in their grade
 level if they could go to the next grade level in the same school year.
 This is exciting me as I see motivation starting to develop.
 Regina
... "Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again." - L. Long
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