I know many of you homeschool your children, but were any of you home-schooled yourself?? If you were, how did it affect you? Do you homeschool your kids now? Do you wish you had gone to school, or conversely that you had been homeschooled if you weren't?

-- Melissa (me@home.net), January 04, 2002

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I wish with all my heart that I had been homeschooled. I never disliked school but I've always had so many things that I wanted to do and not enough time for them all. Had I been homeschooled that would have been different (at least during those years :-) ).

Until I was 14 we lived in a city with several large museums. I can remember feeling so rushed during field trips to look at what someone else had decided was important. I always wanted time to linger a while at certain displays. This is just one example of why I would have enjoyed it.

Our sons are not married yet but they have said they plan on homeschooling their children.

-- Terry - NW Ohio (aunt_tm@hotmail.com), January 04, 2002.

I think most of us are at an age that when we were school-age, homeschooling was still illegal in most states. When I was in elementary, Christian schools were just getting popular. My mom says she would have homeschooled us but she didn't know she could. I know she didn't like having to go to work to pay for the Christian school tuition. Also, I had a hard time getting my grandma to believe that there were brats in the Christian school. I did not make friends easily and we moved a lot. I wish I had been homeschooled.

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), January 04, 2002.

I so wish that I had been homeschooled! I've always been overweight, so I was tormented constantly in school. Also, once I got to high school, the classes were so "dumbed down" that I was very bored. They didn't have advanced classes or gifted programs WAY back then. (This was in the 70's.) There was a lot of violence in the schools that I went to as well, and I remember being frightened a lot because of fighting in the hallways. I loved college once I got there - but up until that point, I would have loved to have been homeschooled!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), January 05, 2002.

Yes I would have loved to have been homeschooled. I started kindergarden in 1960 I was only 5yrs old and very shy. I believe for the most part kids are still babies at 5 nad need moms help.How much better it would have been for me to learn and be with mom at the same time. Looking back, I was probably not ready emotionaly ready for school till I was about in the fourth grade,but nobody homeschooled back then do I was stuck in the system.

-- Roxanne (Roxanne143@webtv.net), January 05, 2002.

I attended public school in the city. With two working parents, home schooling was not an option. My Son attends public school in a small town. We had the option of a christian school, but I didnt like the idea of hiding my son away and shelter him to the real world. I want to keep him safe from the non-christian evils, but the christian school just wanted to shelter him. My nephew has went to a christian school all his life. He gets of the bus takes off his school garb, puts on some black band shirt. Puts on some heavy metal head banging music, and then spends the evening playing some slaughter game on his play station. The homelife doesnt exist so the christian teaching fall part.

My wife is home and home school could be an option, but we were happy with the school. Many of the teachers in the school came from the town, attended the same school. Members of the local churches. The Principal lives in the neighborhood, The school employee's are part of the school. The Christmas pagent my Son was in had christian music. Flyers for church functions are passed out at school.

-- Gary (gws@columbus.rr.com), January 05, 2002.

I was in the system until my 11th grade year. It was the worst year of my life. Something happened. I was popular and went against the crowd. Not pretty. My car was keyed, I was bullied, hit, called so many hurtful names daily and the school never would address the problem. I left public school and went to a small, new christian school just opened by the church. It was the best move of my life. I met so many wonderful people and learned what true friendship was. If it was not so expensive my son would be going there, but I am working with the school's homeschooling program so if in the future we can afford it , he will be right on track!-

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), January 05, 2002.