Our Public School Experiment Failed-Back to Homeschool!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- After trying out public school for one of our children, we quickly realized that homeschooling is truly where our family thrives. In this video, I share the lessons we learned from our brief experiment with the school system and the joy of returning to the rhythms and freedom of homeschooling. Join me as I reflect on the challenges, the clarity we gained, and the beauty of crafting an education that fits our family’s values and lifestyle.
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So glad he figured it out so quickly before he had gotten sucked into the peer pressure aspect of public school kids! ❤
Oh goodness me too. We weren’t letting him stay in, after we’d realized some things, but I’m grateful he came quickly to the choice himself!
We had a very similar experience with our son who is 11 and wanted to try public school. He tried it this year for 1 month. By the first week he already saw all the things he didn’t like. We gave it a full month to make sure but it confirmed for us that homeschooling was the best fit for us for so many reasons.❤
I think this must be quite common! I’m sure we’d have tried the full trial had we not had that issue with the teacher. But I think you can see what you need to see quite quickly!
You are such a good mom, your ability to be honest and share your motherhood journey with others while also protecting your children’s personal aspects of their story, you are one of the few mom vloggers that don’t give me the ick lol 😂 🙏 some of these other super popular influencer moms could never
This was such a beautiful compliment thank you 🥹 I try really hard to balance sharing and protecting! It’s tough. I agree the free for all for the internet is insane haha 😆
We are not a homeschool family, but we are very involved with my son’s educational journey.
My son goes in a Waldorf school, private, not a Public School. I loved your share about Public School experience. Thank you! ❤
Waldorf school sounds absolutely lovely!! Thank you for sharing with me ☺️
@@RainbowMiller Thanks for the reply❤️ We like the Waldorf experience. My son is attending 3rd Grade and he is in the Waldorf schools since Kindergarten. I do not know about the future, but for now it is the ideal option close to us. I am completely involved in his school’s activities, so I feel that I am part of his educational world. That makes a diference for me and for our family. ❤️ I loved your channel! 🙏❤️
This sounds like a beautiful balance and fit for your family. I wonder if our experience might have been a bit different if Waldorf schools were in our area… thank you for being here with me! I so enjoy hearing from others unique experiences!
Rainbow!!!!!!! You are so incredible! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your shares! I home schooled my two kids (while traveling) for three years (after their dad passed away). I finally bought us our off grid dream home and then they decided that they wanted to go to public school. We end up putting 150 miles a day on our truck, lol, and it’s A LOT to keep up with (school sports and concerts and such)…what I did not expect was the bullying that happened immediately to my 11 year old daughter…her breaking her leg playing softball (and requiring surgery), my son (he turned 14’in May) dropping out of football and actually trying pot (he has ODD and Autism combined with ADD, so he is always challenging, lol! )…I mean dang, this is the first two weeks…I couldn’t agree more that the quality of education is lame…I believe that my kids are trying to be lazy with it, but their boredom is obvious.
There was even a school shooting threat already…all of my mom intuition was met with affirmation.
I am just so grateful to you for the way you navigate your family, care about your son’s personal privacy, and continue to vulnerably share these truths; I find it so comforting and affirming in the direction that I appreciate most.
You are an incredible human and it reminds me of why I am so proud to be a Doula, because this is the kind of parent/woman/person that I aspire to be.
♾️💎💫🫶. I love you lady😇🧬☀️🌈
I would most definitely subscribe to uncut Rainbow 😎😁😎.
I feel like our personal parental GPS is similar. I am so happy for this experience having given you that level of peace about your homeschooling experience; that is absolutely priceless!!!!!
I forgot to mention that we are going to finish the semester and my daughter is going to keep public school; my son will be at homeschool with me…just to compete the picture 😁😎.
Oh my goodness, what a beautiful comment! Thank you for taking the time to share all of this with me, this was a joy to read!
I’m really sorry for the hardships you have experienced in the last few years, but it sounds like you have navigated them with Grace and integrity which is really all you can ask for I think .
It sounds like your kids have a passionate and steady mom and the fact that they feel they could handle the school System despite all of the challenges ,means you’re doing a great job.
Your words are like honey and I appreciate them so much 🥹♥️ thank you for seeing my heart and being here with me.
I love that I have fellow doulas in this space with me as well. It warms my heart to be connected with birth workers from all over!
Sending you so much love as you continue to navigate and adjust! You guys sound like a great team ♥️
My husband passed away last year and I'm still raising 4 out of our 7. I feel your challenges
@@Sevenarrowsacademy I hope you can also feel my hand, having your back… Energetically, we are sharing a frequency😎🫶😎.
When my son's public school friends showed that they clearly didn't read well, and one in particular, I mentioned it to my son. Of course, my phone picked up on that (🙄) and recommended a book called"I Didn't Believe Him" by a NYC mom who got her kindergarten son into an exclusive public school. Long story short, he said he wasn't learning to read and it took her two years to believe him. That led her discover the method most public schools choose actively discourage the classic reading model. And it shows. After 20 years writing and speaking on this, the author, Irene Daria, reported on a recent podcast that five states have finally made this horrible method illegal. I could cry when I think of the tens of thousands, no hundreds of thousands of children who have have not learned to read, or who, like the author discovered, had to get tutors outside the school to actually teach them basic reading skills.
Wow that is horrible!! What reading method is that?
Your hair looks gorgeous. Seriously. Thanks for the pre emptive thanks 😂
🤣🤣 thank you haha I’m actually laughing out loud
@@RainbowMiller You’re welcome ☺️. I’ve just watched the video in its entirety and I have to tell you that coming from the UK, as I do, I found it fascinating. We don’t have a large home school culture here. It’s very rare that people homeschool. And I have a LOT to say about our public education system 🤣. Our teachers are, in my opinion, woefully underpaid, in line with most public service workers and naturally that often leads to a demotivated workforce and high turnover of staff. Discipline is difficult because, quite frankly, that starts at home, and it’s impossible for a teacher to fix problems that have been rooted in a child’s home environment. However. On the whole, we can feel confident that the majority of our kids are in a safe place and receiving a rounded education. So the “need” to home school (which I would definitely have done if I was situated in your part of the world) overall isn’t a norm. My experience with friends and acquaintances who have relocated to the US (can’t speak for Canada, don’t know anyone who’s moved there presently) is that they are, unilaterally, shocked by the quality of the education the kids receive. As a baseline, the British kids tend to be around two years ahead of their American contemporaries. Honestly, for a nation that has such a huge presence on the international stage, it’s extremely worrying. I shudder for the generations to come as to the impact that will inevitably have. Here in the UK, we need a rapid change in mindsets toward the concept that we send our children to school to be educated, not to be instructed in core values and basic respect for others. That’s our job. Not the teachers’. Over there, the problem seems to be on both fronts. I also want to congratulate you both, as parents, for listening to your children and valuing their opinions and needs. This may have been a challenging experience, but that’s life. Children (of a certain age) need to see where life choices can take them, as long as they have a safe place to return to if things get unmanageable. All in all, valuable lessons learned. And your baby is scrumptious 😄
Ah so interesting! Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective with me!
Canada is similar in their underpaid teachers whose classrooms are too full. I fully agree with the home issues not being handled at home. I think that’s becoming a problem all over the world. Our school system is “above” UK from what I’ve heard… but who knows really. I have a friend who’s relocated to the UK and hopes to move back to Canada before school time for her children because of this. But I think this whole conversation is just highlighting the issue of the system in so many countries! You’re quite right it’s all very concerning!
I appreciate your thoughts as it’s always fascinating to see how things work in other countries. I’m so grateful that not only is homeschool legal here, but in my province it’s funded and deeply supported 🙌🏼 our children are gifts and deserve the best.
Thank you! I find it hard not to eat him 🤣🥹
I love the responses you have received on here ❤
Me too 🥹♥️
The first month of our school they do extremely remedial work and review - literally single digit addition minute math (in her grade 4-5 class) and then it switches to more challenging material October and Nov, then Dec they barely do anything and janurary getting into the swing and spring is whiplash and they push a shit tone of work they have to catch up on . The flow is terrible
That sounds exhausting 😥
Hey hun❤ Your hair looks beautiful 😍 I want to thank you for sharing this experience on here, I can’t tell you how much this has helped me! I may have told you this but maybe not? Once c19 hit, Luke was in grade 2 and his teacher was not tech savvy at all so I took on homeschooling him for the remainder of the year. Once Grade 3 was approaching I decided with all the crazy that I needed to keep him home to learn, they offered online. I still have him online, he’s in grade 7 however every year I have homeschooled him on top of online as I found they were way behind what I was teaching him or had already taught him. This year I really struggled, I felt maybe it was time to put him into in person school to prepare him for high school but the stories of violence, bullying, bomb threats, lockdowns etc I decided against it. All the while we spoke to Luke and he feels more comfortable learning at home, I felt guilty as all his friends are in school and I repeatedly hear “you should put him back in school,he needs the social aspects “. Mind you we have him signed up for ball hockey and dodgeball so gets engagement,does extremely well socially and is very mature for his age. I was thinking about high school and was worried because I was wondering how to do it from home solo. I would love for you to do more videos on this topic, including how you do high school as I am going to go with my gut and intuition to home school Luke for high school. Only difference here though is we don’t get support from a school facilitator so I wonder how to navigate it. Sorry for my long blab❤ I’d love any and all input you can offer on homeschooling! Xxxxx
Forgot to mention in all that…I don’t have anyone in my area that homeschools their children! Everyone it seems is pro public school. Over the years I have so many reasons I could list why I am against it, I still see some of the many things even while Luke is online.
I didn’t realize you were going fully online! That is a lot in itself I’ve heard, so trust you’re doing so well! Truly, I have learned how educationally superior homeschooling with a dedicated parent is 🙌🏼
Good for you for trusting your instincts and what Luke wants for himself. He will grow up to be a successful and wonderful young man!
At this point I honestly think the “socialization” comments are ignorant and boring and often not worth a response. Everyone has a computer in their hands… it’s not too hard to do a fraction of research and realize times have changed lol.
Ontario has a good homeschooling community in many areas! Do you have local fb groups you can find friends in?
I would love to do some homeschool high school videos! I just need to be brave because it feels overwhelming to talk about what I’ve yet to fully learn myself. I wonder if I could get my facilitator to let me interview her?! How cool could that be?!
Thank you for sharing, encouraging and the inspiration in your words! ♥️♥️ you are doing such a good job! Believe that. It is true!
@@RainbowMiller yes hun, I have kept Luke fully online since Grade 3, I have found that it better to be informed as to what or even what they are not teaching. We have solid family roots and morals, some things I strongly disagree with. I found over each year Luke has excelled so I was able to register him online every year and have communicated with his teachers that I am homeschooling him as well. He will do online next year as well but I am unsure after that how to fully navigate 9-12. I can imagine it will require more time and commitment but I will do it and in the process relearn some things so that I can fully teach Luke. Again, I appreciate you! I don’t engage much on fb, so honestly have not looked on there for groups.
It sounds like you’re using the system to your advantage though, which is what I believe more should be doing! I think you’re probably doing far far more than you even realize! High school starts in 9th there right? We start in 10 here.
That’s fair, the groups and my UA-cam page are the only reason I check it haha
Oh wow . I had to go to the school in the district even though I hated my snobby school in Oakville . I couldn’t go to Mississauga because it was a different district
We are really lucky to be able to choose here!
I wish I could homeschool. I only know of the public school system and I do incorporate our own lessons outside of school, but my girls and I don't "mesh" well and it would strain our family if it were a whole day of teachings.
I get everything you're saying. I see it too in the schools. I have friends who went into teaching and have learned how very copy,paste, cookie cutter the lessons are and it ran them down.
That’s so understandable and the start of many homeschool families story ♥️ I think it can feel really intense when you try to replicate school at home. In my experience, there is a very big detox of sorts that we parents (and often kids if they come from public school) need to go through. To “de-school” their perspectives and beliefs on what learning truly looks like. It gets so much easier after that! And you only learn more and more as you go 🩵 just to offer some perspective ☺️
I think that’s a big part of why teachers burn out so quickly (amongst other issues!) but you’re so right.
Chantel from Chantel Klassen on here homeschools and has one in the regular school because he’s a foster child . She says it’s hard homeschooling and taking one to school and waiting for pick up. She can’t homeschool him. She’s tried . She’s in Edmonton now
That’s a super hard situation to be in. I really feel for her!
I have you EXACT story to a T! We started 2weeks into school year and my son lasted 3 days as well. I think the main thing that I took away from your video is the exact same thing that I felt.. I wish I would have trusted my own intuition and ability. I don't know that I would have not allowed my child but I think I will wait until my kids are in high school to try again. Like you said, I don't quite have the brain capacity to understand all of their choices right now but we do. High School is a good time to tey it. I feel terrible but I absolutely agree with you on how the quality that came home that first week was just crap! I know they are just getting into the school year but I had two weeks of spelling lists and math work that came home that my son had done in first grade. NOPE. He was so far beyond where they were at I knew they were going to behavior problems in the classroom out of boredom and the 15-minute recess seal the deal for him to come back home😂
Yes! You can definitely feel it when you’re ignoring your intuition!
I agree about high school. Those grades are more complex and there are more hoops to jump through, and also they’re more firm in who they are by that age. We may try high school with him if that’s what feels right!
Thank you for sharing with me, it’s quite easy to see the major red flags when you’ve already been surrounded by deeper education 🙌🏼
I’m not sure you can really say you tried public school if you only went for 3 days? 😬😬
Of course I can! We saw what we needed to see quickly. There is no point in continuing to go through an experience you know is not aligned once you’ve discovered it’s not right. Thats quite silly.