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Just out of curiosity how many here were homeschooled yourselves?
I was homeschooled through elementary school as were some of my siblings and a few of my cousins.
Anyone else?
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Thought I'd add an official poll to Sara's great question. Don't forget to vote, Sara.
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I was wondering this very thing! I can't wait to see the results!
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Our family took up homeschooling when I was in high school, so I was homeschooled part of my high school years, but some of my siblings had more elementary school years homeschooled.
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I WISH! As I create a home learning environment for my kids, adding bits, changing bits, always striving to improve, I just think -- boy, I would have LOVED this. My mom swears she would have been a flop as a hs'ing mom but she would have been great!
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Do you want an option for those of us who had NO homeschooling? 
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Well, I could, but that would be most of us. I just figured I'd get a breakdown of how many were homeschooled how much.
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My husband's three youngest siblings were hsed. Now one of them is hs her dc. It is really neat to see. But I can't vote!
And one of my husband's brother's wife was fully hsed and is now hsing her 6. Still, I can't vote! But I sure feel like I'm in a good crowd!
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Well I'm not quite in that catergory but the majority of my siblings where homeschooled all the way through or nearly through.
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Well, I wanted to vote twice, don't know if I should. But I was homeschooled some in grade school using Our Lady of the Rosary and some in high school using more of CM methods. So I placed my vote in high school.
Mom has homeschooled my two littlest sisters for most of the time - early elem. they were at a normal public school as Mom had to work, then home for years and are now in an alternative school/dual enrolled in Maui. So we would have to get into your definition of home education for high school for those two!
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Hmmm...one person voted for all the way through. I wonder who?
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marihalojen wrote:
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Did you really use Our Lady of the Rosary School? What years? I used to work for the h/s when they were based in VA for years. I ran all those copies, bound, packed and shipped the materials, even helped with phone calls. I bet I could recognize your name!
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Oh, and Jennifer, using a curriculum still means homeschooled!
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Jenn, we were with OLRS in the early 90's, so neat that you were working there!
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Yes, but have you noticed that if a large family with littles puts their oldest in an alternative school for some classes or dual enrolls with a college while the littles are still homeschooling the oldest is still a homeschooler, but if the youngest or only child is in the same situation (alt. or dual) they aren't considered homeschooled anymore?  This could just be my perception too, or a state by state deal, I suppose!
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Jennifer
I will give into my curousity  for a long time I've wanted to ask about your family. You;ve mentioned your sisters, how old are they? Even more embarassing to ask how old are you? Do you have other siblings who hsed for a time?
I'm fascinated that your mum used CM what time period did CM's works start becoming known?
I am the oldest of eight, my mum pulled two of my siblings out of school, grade 3 and 1 when I was in grade10, my brother was grade9. The other children were too young or not yet born. We had the option of hsing but I din't want to because she was using Seton (nothing else was known here then, this was in the late 80s) and she was advised that I would have to do grade 5 because I didn't know enough grammar. Too embarassing for a 15yr old. I would have loved to though.
I helped hs the younger children and read all the 'how to' works back then, Raymond Moore, John Holt etc, I convinced mum to ease up on the boys as Seton did not fit them but mum kept swinging. Personality style. Anyhow I taught two of my brothers to read etc. Some of the children were hsed throughout, one till highschool, the youngest three were still in primary when they were put into school  due to my parents marriage breakup. My youngest sister turned 15 yesterday 
All good prep for hsing my own, very funny going to hs support groups with your own baby and your mum. But then again we were both breastfeeding together too.
Anyhow I'd love to hear your own story.
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Hi Erin! I've finally got a moment and I'll try to answer your questions!
My littlest sister will turn 16 in March, my second youngest is 2 years older than she. They are both living on Maui with Mom and Dad right now where they attend an Alternative School and the older one also dual enrolls with the local college. That's what I was trying to chat about above when I was going on about defining homeschooling. Their Alt. School is a half day affair and the rest of the day they spend interning at cool places like the Maui Ocean Center, on the Research Vessel Hi’ialakai, or starting a Key Club, Tennis Club, and Volleyball Team, while interning at a Yoga Studio and the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary as well.
Mom homeschooled them from early elementary till the move to Maui when they discovered that Hawaii doesn't count any homeschool credits for high school unlike the last state they lived in.  It didn't effect the youngest but the other has had to double up on lots of classes to think about graduating on time.
There is more than a decade between the younger set of girls and myself and my closest sister (4 girls total, I'm the eldest). We older two attended parochial schools and public schools in a couple of different states and finally settled into homeschooling as Mom was super unhappy with the education system. She had her teaching degree (English major with a double minor in Shakespeare and Asian studies we used to go fishing and bring Shakespeare along to read aloud) and just decided that she could definitely do the job herself! But we needed to sign with a school for the time and state we lived in so they chose Our Lady of the Rosary School. Very rigorous program! We moved after a year and the new state didn't require signing with a school so Mom was able to start branching out on her own. We were placed back in school for a few years when she had to go back to work, not as a teacher but as a lab tech, white coat and all, in a science facility. She was able to homeschool again (this is when the younger two began homeschooling too) and I ended up attending some classes (Math mostly) at the school and some at home.
Mom implemented a lot of the theories of CM, twaddle was abhorred, short lessons, outside daily especially for science observations, I even had a Nature Notebook based on Edith Holden's Diary! She did try to get me to read Volume 6 of CM once or twice but it really didn't fly at the time  . I really preferred The Teenage Liberation Handbook which worked well in my opinion as classical or CM alone wouldn't have met my needs but eclectic with an emphasis on classical did! (Not true classical though, I just missed having to take Latin with OLRS by a year or two.) What I mean is the Handbook gave me permission to take an interest in my own education and find classes or job studies that met my interests and fulfilled a credit or two while at home we continued to gobble great books and live out what we read, knitting on cold winter nights and sledding during the day, gardening and canning, hiking and sketching, playing musical instruments, milking goats and cows, riding horses and chopping wood. If I had an interest, everything was done to encourage it from great books to materials needed.
For instance, I liked gardening. I read everything from specialized catalogs to herbal encyclopedias. Each year my garden plot got bigger. So I wanted to extend the season. First Dad helped me build a cold frame, we changed it to a hot bed, then we built a sunroom, and tried to expand it into a greenhouse that was blown down in a terrific storm while barely started. So I went to work at a local greenhouse and they sent me to the state university where I was certified for various greeny things (not pesticides or herbicides though, too young and I was opposed even then  ) That gave me an in when applying to college where I was able to work in the campus greenhouses to pay my way.
While writing this I just realized that education for me really is a lifestyle. I have always been either in school or homeschooled or teaching in schools or homeschooling my dd! It has been about education in all its forms!
Now that I've completely monopolized this thread, I'll stop now!
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Monopolise away. So so fascinating. What an interesting childhood and so rich.
How funny the big age difference, my brother and I were 8 and 7 when the younger set were 'begun' we nearly made the decade difference.
I love the teenage liberation handbook.
Well I guess an English major with Shakespeare certainly wouldn't tolerate twaddle.
It occured to me reading about your mother and the rich childhood you had and reflecting on my own mother in that era what radicals they were considered back then. Now homeschooling is not that radical really in comparison. The families back then brave enough to venture forth often were different to the mainstream and often comprised of strong women. I know I owe a debt of gratitude to my mother for the way I was raised and the way I was taught to think.
If my mother hadn't of been such a strong Catholic she would have made a good hippy. In fact my childhood was full of many alternative lifestyle friends, whilst we didn't share many of their views we did find much common ground.
Education is indeed a lifestyle and indeed I have friends whose children attend an institutional school and I call them psuedo homeschoolers, they would be great homeschholers and they certainly supplement the edcuation their children are receiving at home. I have another friend who ahs put her children into school this year and I still consider her a homeschooler as it is about attitude, she hasn't just dumped her kids in school she is keeping her finger on the pulse and is still involved both at home and at the school.
It must be difficult not having a garden on the boat or have you managed a way?
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