My best advice is to go all in and dedicate utterly to homeschooling if you’re going to do it. I have been majorly hustling to do homeschooling with my son Dereck.
I have had to literally acquaint myself with 15+ websites that my son uses on his Chromebook. I’ve also had to log into them on my own laptop, which was definitely a process that required an enormous amount of time. Then I’ve had to sit down and learn how each one works and then I’ve had to comprehend the lesson plan that was sent home by his teachers.
My son has an IEP for special education and so I’ve had to work with his teachers through online chat and video to get his lessons and I’ve had to schedule his lessons as well.
I have also spent countless hours of time playing catch up for the stuff that’s not getting done at his Dad’s house. My general thought on all of this is that his dad and his girlfriend are resisting the process and so rather than letting my son fall behind any further than he has I’ve chosen to step up and kick homeschooling’s ass.
I’m not going to let frustration or a lack of understanding on my part get in the way of my son’s education. My son is developmentally 2 years behind his age, so even though he’s 10 he is about 8 years old educationally.
At this point I don’t give a shit about all the bullshit going on in the world and I will not be allowing it to put my son’s education any further behind.
When he first went to public school in this area I had to fight to get his IEP special Ed certification done in a timely manner. After fighting that, then I started to fight the fact that my Son spends most of his time in class being “enriched” rather than being educated.
Enrichment is when my son sits in class watching other kids doing 4th grade stuff even though he only understands 2nd and 3rd grade stuff, which of course is total bullshit. My thought on this is that he is in school to be educated not to be enriched!
So, like I said I’m going to kick this things ass and take its name because frankly I’m fucking done with the bullshit! I love my son and I want what’s best for him and that means a real education not one where he watches other people get educated and he does not.
I think his teachers are a bit shocked that I’m working with him as much as I am and that he’s getting done more now at home than he was in class. The reason he’s getting more done is because he has a one on one assistant to help him and that assistant also has to cook three meals a day, take care of a two-year-old toddler, do house chores, canning, organic gardening all while educating him.
Yeah you heard me right, and when I look in the mirror these days I tell myself, I’m a bad ass Mom! Why? Because it’s TRUE!!!
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