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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would homeschool. I work very part time, have two degrees and taught for years. But there are two things holding me back.

1) My child is an only child. I think he needs the socialization and structure of school. C[b]o-ops and local homeschool options are all VERY religious.[/b]
2) I don't want people to assume that we are weird and extremely religious. There's absolutely a stigma with homeschooling, even though it has become more popular.[/quote]

This is increasingly less true. You have to look for them, but non religious (and even anti-religious) homeschool groups are growing. [/quote]

DP here but someone who totally agrees with the PP -- I have a background and schedule that would accommodate homeschooling but see the same drawbacks.

In my area there are mostly religious homeschool options. There are a couple that are not openly religious but they are... weird. It's a lot of people who have what are essentially unpopular ideas about raising kids. Anti-vaxxers. Or at the other end there are some homeschool groups that formed post-Covid that are basically a group of parents with health anxiety who started homeschooling so that they could tightly control their family's exposure to even common colds. There is a TON of judgment in these groups around everything from what your kids eat to how they dress but also everyone self-identifies as counterculture which has a tendency to confirm that whatever they think is correct.

It's not a good option if you just want a positive learning environment and a good curriculum for your kid but don't want to join a cult.

It's possible there are more options elsewhere but where I live the sane people who are unhappy with public schools just go to one of the many private schools in the area. Our problem is that we don't like the publics but can't really afford private even if we really stretch (and certainly not starting in elementary school). I've looked pretty seriously at homeschooling but it just doesn't offer the alternative I'd hope for.

A significant majority of people in our area who homeschool for elementary wind up going private or moving for middle anyway.[/quote]

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