CG>  One question:  If you got the teachers you wanted (well, sorta...),
 CG>  then why homeschool?  Why yank them out -at all- after they've made 
friend
 CG>  and adjusted to a school-day schedule?  Couldn't you enhance what 
they've
 CG>  learned at school, at home and start thaem with home-schooling during
 CG>  the next year?  Give it a definite cut-off point, instead of in the 
middle
 ZR> I think I'd leave it up to the children.. give them an option.  Aaron
 ZR> has the  option of returning to school at certain times during the
 ZR> school year -- I  think this is built into the homestudy program that
 ZR> the school district has  set up... in case they think the homestudy
 ZR> isn't progressing well.  Last year  when my son was in public school
 ZR> Kindergarten he requested to leave half way through the year and it
 ZR> worked out well for us.   
 ZR> I know Donna will do what's best for her kids.. :)
 Oh, I don't doubt that she would.  I just question shifting the
 children around like that mid-stream.  Huh.  Maybe the kids will want
 to change THEIR minds once they start?  Who knows?  ;)  I AM wondering
 at how much the child plays an active role in the parent's decision to
 home-school, or continue to do so?
                                                          
... The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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