On Homeschooling.

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in so long. I received this comment earlier this week, this is a topic that I have wanted to discuss for a very long time.  Now I am forced to write about it. "I was reading some of your older posts. and on Sunday October 4, 2009 in your post titled 60ish Things About Me, statement #43 you stated that you thought that home schooling was a complete waste of time. I was just wondering why you thought that and if you still think in that way?" Here's the post (click here to read it) Okay, so I was really hoping no one would ever find this comment that I had buried so deep in a very long post. But someone did.  This is proof that everything is recorded on the internet just waiting to be found. I'm sorry I really am.  I was rather harsh wasn't I?  I was younger, and meaner, and writing on a blog that no one read.  This really isn't an excuse, at all. Those aren't the words that I should have used.  They make it seem that I think something I don't. I no longer fully believe it.  As there are things in that post I don't feel anymore.  I don't want to be a pharmacist anymore, I don't read a book a week and I don't even watch Criminal Minds now.  I also will not  have a Bon Jovi themed wedding, ever.  What was I thinking? Here it goes.  I would never want to be homeschooled (I actually was for Kindergarden)  I love the public school system ( I am currently writing this post in a public school library)  Love it.  I think it gives you so many opportunities.  But with that you get a lot of bad.  I understand that aspect of homeschooling, that you can control what your children learn and you can tailor to each individual child.  I've learned stuff in public schools that I didn't need to.  I've been exposed to things I shouldn't have.  I still really like the system though. Why did I think that?  I've experienced an elitist state of mind from some homeschoolers.  I've felt that I've been looked down on as stupid and uneducated because I go to public school.  I don't like that as all (on a side note I've also received those feelings from French Immersion students in New Brunswick)  I don't think I should be consiered a person of lesser mental capacity because I go to public school.  I also don't think homeschooled kids should be considered smarter simply because I they're homeschooled.  These feelings have abviously nat been from very homeschooler I have met. I will admit that I have huge problems with spelling, but I did spend 4 years in a privite Christian school before enetering the public system.  I've been around. Since I wrote that post I have made friends with some of the most amazing, wondeful, kind, and funny people I have ever met.  And they're homeschooled. When I have kids I won't homeschool then.  Why? I won't because I don't think I am right for that.  I've never been a very good teacher.  I'd rather put the minds of my kids in the hands a professional, but this is just me talking.  I am of course going to teach them their colours, their numbers, how to read.  I will read to them every day.  All of those things, because that's just raising a toddler, being a responsible parent. The public system has opened me up to lots of amazing opportunities.  I really thank it for that. I've had some amazing teachers that have taught me things I will carry with me forever.  I've also had insane teachers that I'll try and forget for the reast of my life. I don't think homeschooling is a waste of time, if it's done properly.  But the public system isn't always done properly.  I don't believe in the unschooling movement is one thing I'm trying to say.  Homeschooling is just something I'd never want to be involved with.  Is that better? I hope I've explained myself, how I wanted to.  I hope I'm clearer now and less opinionated and rude.  You grow up, and I need a strong dose of it. So give me some feed back please?  Do I sound nicer is this post. I'm sorry parents for going on Blogger, but I really need to answer this. Okay so last weekend, pretty cool.  Christian Bale won the Oscar.  Toronto lost and Montreal won. Olympic post is coming, as is one on the Oscars.