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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question used to be, why do you homeschool? Now I’m being asked, how do I homeschool and can you help me?

I don’t have any bad feelings towards parents making a difficult decision for this school year. I also hope they abandon their bias to homeschooling. [/quote]

I understand that many homeschoolers suffered negative perceptions from others in the past, but you should also realize that not everyone was looking down on homeschoolers. Most people I know wish they could homeschool. They see it as a privilege, but either felt like they couldn't afford to not have a two income household, or weren't educated enough to know how to begin. They also don't have that type of confidence and executive functioning for that type of work.

I myself always wanted to homeschool, and I did so on and off for my daughter, basically throughout preschool and in the summers and weekends while she attended K-2nd grade. The pandemic was an OPPORTUNITY for me to finally take the plunge full scale. And we could finally make it work beceause we kind of had to, but also because hubby working from home made our lives so much more flexible in order to do so. And I love it. I've always had little unit plans here and there and its a bit freeing to be able to take complete charge, though we are sacrificing income because of it.

Just saying, a lot of people are not being "pushed" into doing it and now starting to respect it. A good amount of people been respected it and only now have the opportunity (and new social supports) to make it work. [/quote]

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