My father in law is against homeschooling . I do not care. I told him calmly that my husband and I have decided what is best for our family. I will answer any questions he has and I will listen to any concerns, but bottom line I decide.
Some of the best advice I had was to know exactly why I have decided to homeschool, so when I am confronted by those negative people , not only will it NOT effect me, but I will know what to say.
Not everyone is going to like it or support it. I view myself as a revolutionary, and I am proud of what I am doing. This gives me strength, also knowing I am doing the best for my child. My father in law knows little about putting a child's needs above his own
Here is a quote for you: Just because something is popular does not make it right. Just because something is right does not make it popular. Best of luck to you... freep mail if I can help. You are smart enough, brave enough and entitled to homeschool your own child! You can do it.
A little over 100 years ago, compulsory government education was regarded as revolutionary, and was often resisted by force. Massachusetts was the first state to implement compulsory attendance laws. Barnstable County, Massachusetts was the last county to "fall,'' and the militia was called in to force the children into the newly created government schools at gunpoint.
"Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the state of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted - sometimes with guns - by an estimated eighty per cent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880's when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard."