Life has been... so SO busy.
Ab a month ish ago we pulled the girls out of school when another student brought something ill prob get flagged for typing to school and the administration chose to hide as much as possible rather than be as transparent and Safety focused as possible.
It was one of many terrible and shocking things to happen at their school over the past year, but it was the last thing for our family. So we pulled them out.
I was nervous.
What if I couldn't homeschool. What if I lost my marbles on day one. What if working nights fried my brain too much and I couldn't teach them a single thing... self doubt and all the worry.
But you know what? Im not perfect. Im not the very end all be all best at being a teacher. But over the past month, winging it and trying my best with these little crazy amazing beautiful babies of mine, I can honestly say, I should have taken the leap sooner.
We have looked at the way tree sap catches the light and gone on scat identifying nature walks. We've used magnifying glasses and binoculars. We've tracked birds and learned what they do and why they do it.
We planted dill in an attempt to lure in swallowtail butterflies with one of their host plants- and we got to meet those caterpillars only three days later.
We got to put hairbrained schemes into action and see the direct results almost immediately.
We are studying math and systems and science and bubbles. We're learning light fragmentation in prisms with suncatchers and how the earth rotates by finding constellations.
This week I got to wake them up in the middle of the night after I got home from work to go watch a meteor shower. We didn't see a single shooting star, but we did learn about how the constellations change position in the sky with each passing hour. We talked about what stars are made up of and laughed at the way someone connected the dots to make up a man-horse in the sky.
We went to bed, snuggled until late morning and did math problems in our pjs.
We've baked with duck eggs vs chicken eggs to see how that changes our bakes with yolk/white ratios and we looked for rolly polys under rocks.
Perfectly imperfect, and happy.
Ok so... its a long story, but today we landed on needing to map out how to get to breed reveal party for Chewy.
11x5= dog DNA test.
We might need to make a pinata in art class.
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WHELP
This has been quite the adventure.
One with twists and turns that felt impossible to navigate.
The schools we have experienced... its unveiled a system so unfathomably broken that I think I would have had difficulty believing the depths of it until I got to see it, and live it up close.
From our first go-round at kinder where a school kept losing Maeven... despite her being next to her sister the whole time.
Twins, with the same last name resulting in that many attendance reporting negligence issues will forever be bananas to me.
If a parent can't trust that the school knows whether the child is present, how could there be an expectation to be effective in educating that child?
*pulled them mid year
The next school initially was a dream. Little did we know that 99% of that was directly caused by having a teacher that was so amazing, such a bright light, that you couldn't see a single shadow anywhere if she was around.
Now we are here and she is not there anymore.
**wise, save yourself**
The spell is broken and the deep end of this swamp that we have found ourselves in...
It is a series of cracks and splinters that wound up shattering any delusions that the schools have the best interest of the child in mind at all. That its even on the outline, that it is a footnote...
I could go on, but ya gorl is tired.
Ffwd to now and we have pulled the kids from their school to homeschool.
I know so much is broken. The school system, the world, the dmv 🙃
Trust me, life isnt fair and I know it well. I can pivot and compromise and adjust how we move to adapt in most cases.
That being said, we are unwilling to bend on this one. They dont deserve to carry the level of devastation ive seen in our school experiences.
These girls won't have an education built on a fractured foundation, not if its within our power to build something solid and safe.
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