Comments on: Your Turn! What is the strangest thing…

By: Jenny Irving

Jenny Irving — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +0000

I was told school was very important because it kept kids on the “straight and narrow”.
Not sure what world he was in!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:08:51 +0000

My all-time personal favourite was a lady who said to me at church one day “Are you a Teacher?” (after learning we were Homeschoolers) to which I replied “No, I was a Secretary”. Her reply was “Oh, well at least you’ll be organised then”. What the??!!! So I won’t “teach” my kids but they’ll be “organised”. I had to excuse myself before I burst out laughing in front of her. People have funny ideas!!

Mind you, my brother & sister-in-law homeschooled way back before I ever had kids, and to my shame I used to think “those poor kids, stuck at home with only Mum for company every day”. Duh! Then I became a homeschooler myself, years down the track. I think God has a good sense of humour!

Fee 🙂

p.s. Susan, have you received any emails from me this week?

By: margaret

margaret — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:21:30 +0000

I don't guess I've had too many funny comments! Guess I get the usual, run-of-the-mill comments and questions like "I don't have the patience" and the classic "what about socialization?!" Which if you think about it is pretty funny! margaret's last blog post..Drop Everything and Read Day

By: Jenni

Jenni — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:56:05 +0000

When my 8 year old found out we were going to homeschool, he immediately asked “But how am I going to find a girlfriend?”!! 😉

My brother in law was a high school drop out because he hated discipline – when he found out we were going to HS, his first bit of “advice” was “Well, as long as you install strong discipline to your schooling hours!!” 🙄

By: kidspatch

kidspatch — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:36:35 +0000

Every time I have a baby (and I have had a few since homeschooling 😉 )returning the children to school always seems to be the main source of conversation among my relatives. The other day my sister started talking to our son about school and asked him if he would like to go and he jumped up and down with excitement and said “Oh yes yes, I do want to go”, which obviously gave my sister some much needed armour for the opposition! on speaking to my son later I realised that he had no idea what school was but liked the sound of the playground aspect at lunchtime!……he has only just turned 4 after all 🙄
My sister keeps telling me that “school is not like it used to be jacqui”, which makes me think that she views my school experience like something out of Tom Brown’s schooldays!! and obviously need enlightening for my own dear children’s sake.
Ah well, ten years down the track and nothing new under the sun 😛

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:41:55 +0000

Ack! Rose, I wonder where on earth the teacher who said that got that information from? Wow!

Yes, we’ve had the type of comments that go like, “Well, now you’ll have to put them in school eh?” whenever a life crisis or situation would arise. But over the years people have come to see and accept that this is our lifestyle. 😎

Love the comments…keep them coming!

Susan <>< now in Adelaide

By: usaoz89

usaoz89 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:41:46 +0000

My Mom said “Now you won’t be able to homeschool” after I had twins. She was meaning it would be to hard having three children to homeschool. I saw it quite differently in that I would only have to teach two grades at a time :).

By: Sombra

Sombra — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:00:48 +0000

“What about prom?!?!”

Ya, prom is definitely something I’d work VERY hard at avoiding for them.. mine was a nightmare!~

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:48:03 +0000

A public school teacher told my kids they would have to do 2 years at home for every grade to learn everything. Rose's last blog post..Springing into fitness