Michelle My Bell Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Just wondering the make-up of this board. Michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose in BC Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We are currently working on Grade 6 for 11 yr and Grade 7 for the other two although for the most part they all do Grade 7 work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumbledeb Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 12 years:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ummtafari Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I have six children. The oldest is 9 and youngest 1 yr. and they have never been to school. Debra in VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Technically since oldest started kindy but I've worked with him since he was 2. That's when he started reading. I marked the 3-4 years box though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I voted 9-10. My oldest is in 8th grade and we've always homeschooled. Chelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Our kids have always been homeschooled. This is our 16th year. 20 yr old in college, four in high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Just starting out last year for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamrachelle Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Looks like I am the newbie... :D This is our first year homeschooling. I wish I had started earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof165 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our third year. :001_smile: Sonja ______________________________________ Homeschooling JUST ONE - ds 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in SWVA Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I have homeschooled since 1985 with about a 2 year gap between 2001 amd 2003. I am currently homeschooling my ds10. My dds are 33,32,29 and 27. Susie in SWVA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemywhirlygirls Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our second year homeschooling. I'm so grateful to be home with my Whirly Girls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmamainva Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 13 years! .... only 11 more to go! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Oldest dd is in 12th grade, homeschooled every year except 2nd grade. Youngest dd is in 9th grade, homeschooled every year except K. We are very relaxed schoolers so some years should count more than others.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaMere Academy Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 8 years, heading into the 9th right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRAAB Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We are in our 14th year of homeschooling and have 10 more to go. :001_huh: That's going to be 24 years total - holy cow. Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doodle Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We're just starting, so less than one year here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our first year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crewmom Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our first week. I'd say we are very new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We've been at this 14 years....3 graduated...4 more to go...my youngest starts kindergarten in the fall...so 12 more years to go....if I should live so long! That would be a total of 26 years when we are finished...UGH!!!! I feel old! ~~Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is my third year with ds 5 but the first using real curriculum. This is my first year hsing ds9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2mea Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Our kids have been learning at home since birth :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elm in NJ Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our 6th year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Our 18th year and my youngest is 5 so I have a few more years to go. Love the bell curve we have going on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We are mid-way through our ninth year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB in NJ Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We started when my oldest was 6 years old, in first grade. He's halfway through his senior year now. I still can't believe it myself :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Started when eldest was 4 - and never looked back! That's about 12 years or so, now. . . . .and with our last, I've got about 13 to go, so I'm at the half-way point, yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanga Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 k+1 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our 4th year, but I didn't know anything about classical education until I found this board last Spring. I'm trying to read and learn this year to see how I can implement more classical methods for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We are in our 5th year homeschooling. Always have and will continue to graduation!! I think it's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Well I hsed my oldest for 1/2 of K, then put him in ps until the end of grade 2, and dd went to ps until end of gr 1, now we are in our 3rd year. so technically 3.5 years, though I wish we had stuck with it from the start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shenan Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 11 years down. 14 more to go!..... (does that mean I'm not halfway to the finish line yet?..Ah man!) ;) Oldest dd went to ps for K - 2nd. However, we had a brief bought with insanity (probably brought on by sleep deprivation) during the fall of 2001. Dh placed the older kids back into ps. Dh was afraid they were going to turn out stupid because we were NOT getting any schooling accomplished with 2 toddlers and a baby in the house. Thankfully, the Lord was gracious enough to show us, with his little 2x4, that we messed up. By Feb of 2002 they were all back home for good. Lesson learned. Albeit the hard way.:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We started hsing in 1982, when I took my older dd out of school during Easter break of first grade. She started taking classes at the community college when she was 14. Younger dd never went to school until she was 14, when I started a little school at my church and dd went along with me. She also began taking evening classes at the community college that year. I don't know how many years of hsing that actually makes :-) I started an umbrella school in 1988, and administered it until I moved to Texas in 2004, so even though eventually I wasn't actually hsing, I was still very involved in homeschooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCrazyMama Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 My oldest two went to ps through 3rd and 1st grades. So we are in the middle of our 8th year. :eek: I realize I voted wrong. I voted 6-7 years before I did the math.:blush: Best thing to happen to our family. :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy in Indy Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I'm in year 11...not sure how that's possible, but here we are! I've graduated one and will graduate the second this spring. Then there's a small lull of, um, 10 years before I graduate the last one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our first week. I'd say we are very new! Congratulations on making the jump and welcome! Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicki Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We started homeschooling in 1986. My youngest is 12 so I still have a few more years to go. God bless, Vicki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We are in year 4 (if you count by traditional school years/use of formalized curriculum). I think they keep calling all that stuff we did before they were 5 parenting. Hmmm...;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I think they keep calling all that stuff we did before they were 5 parenting. Hmmm...;) Yes, this is going to mess with the tally if some people count the years before as "homeschooling" and if others start from 5. From "school-age" we've been homeschooling, umm, 8 years. If you're going to count from birth, then my oldest is 16. And, if you really want to go there, we read to him en utero, and played classical music and all that mess, so I could say 17, right? Or, we could stick with my original answer. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runamuk Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is our first year. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I was one of the ones in the 11-15 year group. We've homeschooled all but the 8 weeks in the fall of 2001 when they tried school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawneinfl Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Now she's starting college. My youngest is only 3 so we still have a loooong way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I voted 9-10 years BUT that does not cover any one kid for that period of time, as each of my four has been home or school as appropriate to meet their (and my) needs on a yearly basis. Since ds (non-autistic) was a third grader I have homeschooled him for 1/2 third grade through sixth, then also 8th. So he was home 4.5 years. Autism Boy was home 1 year. Oldest dd came last quarter of first grade and stayed for second, third, fourth...I gave her back to PS the first week of fifth grade. So she was a tad over 3 years. Youngest dd has been home for K, first, second, fourth, 1/2 of fifth (which I bumped her up into sixth grade material when I brought her home), and now seventh. Total for her - 5.5 years. She WILL go back next year - she is champing at the bit. With all the overlapping kids I have been home about 9 -10 years total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 because "retired" after homeschooling four children for 20 years. But, I'm still teaching, now in a private school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Nearly 10 years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Of course, I had been teaching him "unofficially" since birth! My youngest, EK is in 8th grade, so when she graduates (projected: 2013) I will have homeschooled for 17 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 We're in the middle of our 4th year. Hard to believe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenschooler Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I think about 11-12 years. '96, I'm pretty sure. Oldest was a preschool drop out. :) I have a loooooong way to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in SC Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Just wondering the make-up of this board. Michelle Year 10 for us - began when older dd went into the first grade. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I'm almost at the 1 year mark and feeling pretty proud. :D I know, rank newbie... I'm just in awe of you moms who have been at it for so long and graduated kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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