Beginning of our homeschool Journey

 Our homeschool journey started when we moved to Oceanside in 2005. 

Our littlePrincess was 4 almost 5 and preschool was not going well before we moved. She tended to get in trouble at preschool because she would get bored. She knew her alphabet in English and Spanish, all her shapes, colors, and could count to 100 and recognize all her numbers.  

So I did not want to put her in Headstart with Fairy Princess. 

We found a homeschool charter that did early enrollment kindergarten and she got to start in January after she turned 5. 

I was very thankful that the teacher that was assigned to us. She taught me how to homeschool my daughter. 

We finished all kindergarten curriculum in 6 months. 

In the end she knew everything she needed to start first grade.

So when she wanted to go to kindergarten with all the other kids in the neighborhood, I was super nervous to let her.  I figured that they were the experts though and would be able to meet her needs. 

I could not have been more wrong. In the 7 months she attended public school, she punched a student in front of myself and the teacher with the teacher doing nothing about it. She was bored and misbehaving daily, so I had many meetings with the teacher to try to help. I even made a binder I never received back that would give her more work to try to keep her brain engaged and behaving.  I met with the principal and many admin type people who were super concerned that I did not need my daughter tested to see if she was gifted (I knew she was, did not need the test and had no clue I should have been pushing for it). They put her in social skills class after school. And the last straw (I lived 5 minutes walking distance from the school) I went to pick up my child and was early, to find my child outside with a teacher I did not know. She informed me she was a special Ed teacher and had been called from the class next door to restrain my daughter because she would not sit down and be still. I never received a call from the school, or an email from the teacher. This teacher constantly was telling me my child behaved so well in class, while the other moms who helped in class (I had 2 baby’s and a preschool child at home) told he how disrespectful and misbehaved she was in class.

When we left Camp Pendleton, we started homeschooling again. But I was scared I would miss something so I went with K12.  While they have many good points, it is not a homeschool program, more of a school at home type deal. But I learned things, tweaked things and became confident enough that two years later we were back to regular homeschooling.