{"id":204,"date":"2008-07-29T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-07-29T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T14:06:42","slug":"why-we-homeschool-part-1-is-about-why-we-sent-our-child-to-school-in-the-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Why we homeschool – Part 1 is about why we sent our child to school in the first place."},"content":{"rendered":"

With the social services knocking on the door in a week or so, it’s time to put some ideas in order.\u00a0 Don’t worry, readers, this is not as terrible as it might sound in the US.\u00a0 They are not picking on us, but following a procedure required by law.\u00a0 The law might <\/em>be picking on us, but that’s another matter.\u00a0 So, their remit is to find out why we are homeschooling, and that we are actually doing so, i.e. we are not forcing our child to work in the fields all day, and cook and clean as well when she gets back!<\/p>\n

They won’t have thought of wondering why we put our child in school in the first place, but it’s a point homeschoolers sometimes raise.\u00a0 Since we had a reason, I thought I’d start there.\u00a0 We had heard of homeschooling before our child was born, and I, at least, liked the idea.\u00a0 But we felt that some aspects of our situation prevented us going ahead with it.\u00a0 We, the parents, live in France and are English and American respectively.\u00a0 At least I am English in theory.\u00a0 In practice, I also lived in France during my childhood so I was bilingual early on.\u00a0 My husband, not so much.\u00a0 He speaks French pretty well now.\u00a0 When we were awaiting our child we obviously had a decision to make over what language we would speak to the child.\u00a0 My husband was very keen that we both speak English.\u00a0 He was afraid, and statistics back him up, that if I spoke French and the environment was French, our child’s English would be weak.<\/p>\n

The inevitable consequence of English in the home was that our child needed to spend plenty of time with French speakers from an early age, in order to pick up that language as well.\u00a0 Now, since virtually all French children are in daycare or preschool from the earliest age, and since virtually all their parents are unavailable for socialising in the day time hours, we felt we pretty much had no option.\u00a0 Antonia went to part-time daycare between the ages of 1 and 2, then to a Montessori pre-school (so not quite to public school) full-time upto the age of 5.\u00a0 Part-time was not an option.\u00a0 Our only goals for these years were that she should learn French and have a nice time.\u00a0 Alas, she did neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the social services knocking on the door in a week or so, it’s time to put some ideas in order.\u00a0 Don’t worry, readers, this is not as terrible as it might sound in the US.\u00a0 They are not picking on us, but following a procedure required by law.\u00a0 The law might be picking on … Continue reading Why we homeschool – Part 1 is about why we sent our child to school in the first place.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}