10.01.06

Typical Day - not!

Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:43 am by Meg

If anyone read Girl’s post about homeschooling 101 (and BTW, she doesn’t like to proof things on her blog; and since it’s her space, I don’t hassle her on it - but I’ll warn you to read understanding you might have to fill in a few words as you go) you’ll know that I did a talk at the library a couple of weeks ago.

Girl did a good job describing the night, so I won’t repeat the details.  The night went well over all.  It was interesting, because after I spoke I had people talk about why they were interested in homeschooling.  I had mostly the typical responses, but 2 were kind of interesting.

I had a retired teacher in the audience whose daughter was homeschooling and she wanted to get a better idea of what was available for her to use. Hopefully, she did.

But the other interesting audience member was the ‘old guy in a suit.’  He is a bigwig in the school administration! Talk about making me nervous.  I was/am really curious to hear his thoughts, but he left while I was still talking to other people.

The other surprise is that the local TV station sent a reporter and camera man to my talk and they taped sections of it and then interviewed me afterwards.  And as Girl said, I was on the 10 and 11 o’clock news. The reporter did a very even-handed job and didn’t try to cloud homeschooling with all the abuse cases that you hear about so often.

After the bit aired, she recontacted me about doing an indepth (shown over a few days) look at homeschooling.  One of the things that she wanted to do, was to compare one of my kids’ typical days with a public schooled child’s day.

I did say we’d do it, but she hasn’t gotten back to me - so maybe it won’t happen.  No big deal.

I did get a good chuckle though.  The reporter is young, and I don’t think has any real idea about homeschooling prior to being sent to my talk.  So, I’m not sure how well she’ll understand that homeschoolers don’t really have ‘typical days.’

I can do a typical week (sort of), but day, forget it.

I got a chuckle out of Mom of 3 feisty kids recent post about never being home, because our running around structures our ‘typical week.’ And I as commented to her, I really, really enjoy the day that we don’t have to leave the house.

So, here’s our typical week.

Monday - Generally a seatwork day, but Girl’s trial riding lessons were Monday afternoon (she’s going back to dance).  The evening is full though between my choir practice and Boy’s martial arts.  Boy’s martial arts can also be done in the morning and will be switching to morning shortly because he’ll have driver’s ed on Monday nights (starting in 3 weeks).  The 4H junior leaders meeting is also on Monday nights and I’m not sure how we’ll fit that in.

Tuesday - Mornings, Boy does seatwork, but Girl is picked up by a friend to go to Spanish at 10 AM.  Boy and I join her at 11:30 and I teach drama from noon to 2, at which point we all come home and do more seatwork.  In the evenings, Girl goes to a engineering workshop at the local college.

Wednesday - Is our day to not leave the house!  Though that will change in 3 weeks because it will also have driver’s ed in the evening.

Thursday - Boy does stay home most of the day, but Girl has co-op classes.  I can have a friend pick her up, but I need to go get her in the afternoon.  Boy has martial arts class in the evening, but they may also change these to mornings.

Friday - The morning is generally seatwork time, but our local group gets together for gym/library/bowling in the afternoon.  That is unless we plan an all day fieldtrip.

So, what ‘day’ do I share with the reporter as our ‘typical day?’

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