Homeschooling

I kept going back and forth on homeschooling my oldest daughter last year. We had a lot of issues with the school. I finally told her that we would give the school one more shot and see how 7th grade went. We've still been having lots of issues, but last week pushed me over the edge.

She went to the nurse to see if she could call me to come pick her up. She told the nurse she was dizzy, coughing, sore throat, and felt like she was burning up. The nurse took her temp and told her to go back to class. She asked once again if she could call me to be picked up. The nurse told her "No, you don't have a temp go back to class". WHAT!!! She went back to class and the teacher was shocked that she was sent back to class, yet when Bella asked if she could use the classroom phone to call me the answer was once again NO!

Why was my child not allowed to call me? It's not the nurses choice on if the child gets to go home or not. If my child says she's sick and needs to go home, then she needs to call me and let me decide if she can't "tough" it out or come home.

Then my daughter tells me her Math teacher (who we've had some issues with anyway) told the class "I don't care if you pass or fail, because I'll still get a check". Nice huh? Bella said he was having a bad day. I don't care what kind of a day you have that's not something you say to a classroom full of kids.

Needless to say that I've started the process of beginning to homeschool. Tomorrow all the paperwork will be sent in to make it offical. We are both excited about this adventure we are getting ready to begin. Her two worries...her friends (of course she's a teenage girl), and getting to play her clarinet. We just bought her clarinet and she's been playing for 1 1/2 years. She loves it! So we will be looking into clarinet. I told her she can still hang out with her friends and will be making more friends.

I'm going to start off with my oldest and go from there. I figure we will see how it goes with the oldest and go from there. Although we've not had any problems with our Elementary school. Although we do plan on moving at some point and time to another state in which I will most likely homeschool in that state.