Were any of the parents here Home Schooled?

[ceawood]

Were any of you home-schooled? Do you know anyone who was?
I was home-schooled from the age of nine but I don't do it with my children. I'd be interested to know whether any home-schooled parents home-school their own children.

Ceri

Why don't you Ceri?
I went to school myself. Mind you, my parents thought that girls didn't need an education as we would 'just get married' so I doubt they would have been very good home edders!

I went to school too, though I had a short while out of primary due to difficult circumstances at home - I'm not sure it could count as home ed as such. I absolutely adored secondary school, so it was quite hard for me at first to understand why my own daughter might not like it!

It will be interesting to see what my girls choose to do. They are both undecided at the moment, which I find particularly strange with my youngest as she is vehemently opposed to ever going near a school again herself! Obviously, whatever they choose for their own children is up to them and I will support them.

I wasn't home educated myself, but I was brought up in a house full of John Holt books :)

It was such a counter cultural thing to even consider in those days. My mother says she didn't know anyone else even thinking about it in the same county (I mean, my oldest sibling went to school in 1975, so that's right back at the beginning of the modern HE movement in the UK). She was most frightened of social isolation, I think, and in those days it was a sensible anxiety to have. In the end she didn't HE us, but I think there were various points in our lives at which she came very close. She was certainly always very supportive of us copping a sicky to have a nicer day at home than we would have had at school :) (and no, that hasn't stopped me holding down a high pressure job as an adult)

A friend from home (the US) was home educated for part of her education. She is now home educating her three children.

Another friend, also from home, was home educated for part of her education (longer than friend one). She doesn't have any children yet -- would be interested in finding out if she would consider educating her future children.

Mum says she considered it for me but worried about socialisation and isolation. I wish so much she had. I'd lost all hope and ambition by the time I got through secondary school.

I wish I had been. I swear my Mum taught me everything I learned but crammed into homework sessions when I was exhausted and feeling constantly like I couldn't do it. She was brilliant but was a hard working single parent so I don't think it occured to her then. She's loving it now helping out with my children.

I know a dad who was HE and now they're doing it with their children. I also know a family of 5 who were all HE and now they all HE all of their children.

I know someone who HE her 3 children.She had been to Oxford University herself.
And her 2 older ones have gone on to college.But she admitted to me that she forgot PE was part of the curriculum for several years!