Home schooling questions

I was homeschooled, and felt it was a great fit for me growing up. I thrived on the extra parental attention, customized classes, and extra time and independence to pursue my individual interests and hobbies. Now I homeschool our 1st grader. We live rurally, so there is no bus system. I asked myself, why spend an hour a day rushing her to and from school, when I could put that hour towards teaching her at home? I have 4 kids under 7, so I would be packing all of them up to drop my oldest off. (I am a SAHM, so I am already home with her siblings.) We are in Nebraska, and the registration was recently simplified. We did it all online in less than an hour. We had to provide some basic information, and choose a name for our school. It was easy. For curriculum, we use a combination of different sources. We started with Abeka for Kindergarten, and have branched out to some other ones. We also have utilized our local library to supplement our history, reading, and science books, etc.

Wow thanks for the tips I needed this

I knew it was what I wanted to do last year, it felt right and I don't trust the school systems, my daughter had done wonderfully in preschool for 2 years and I thought, one more year before pulling her, just for socialization.... she attended public school kindergarten this year. Worst mistake I could have ever made. Her confidence is ruined, the first 3/4 of the year were fine, then right after one of the holiday breaks it got awful. All of her "friends" became friends with this other boy in class and now they're ganging up on her, calling her fat and stupid and ugly almost every day, she's being targeted physically in gym and the teacher refuses to take it seriously in that class because "games are rough". Her home room teachers only response is to "have a class talk about being kind to our friends" but never actually does anything about the specific kids so it never changes. My daughter won't eat lunch at school anymore, comes home starving and eats her lunch in the car on the way home

Only reason she hasn't been pulled yetis because she's been hyped up for the end of year field trips and field day happening these last 6 weeks. Also the school social worker and principal just got involved friday, my daughter didn't go to class after being dropped off and going into the building, she instead wandered the halls and tried to hide until a teacher found her and took her to class, she was afraid to go see her bullies again. If nothing changes in the next 2 weeks with principal involvement we will be pulling her 4 weeks early and she and her siblings will never step foot back in a public school again

My daughter started reading independently at 25mo. She just recently turned 5 and reads for about 2hr per day, which she wouldn't be able to do in a kindergarten classroom. She reads chapter books, including some longer ones, so there wouldn't be any suitable reading material in a K or 1st grade class. She's eligible to start kindergarten in the fall, but it just wouldn't make sense. She still needs grade level instruction in math and writing, but it's not worth rolling back the progress she's made in reading. She gets knowledge in other subject areas from her reading.. Plus, I don't want her to get bored, hate school, or pick up a bunch of bad behaviors from other kids. She's social enough and has friends. I just want to let her have her childhood and like the things she likes without a ton of peer pressure. We don't have a set curriculum yet (I direct our activities), and we don't require registration within the state until she's 6. I'm also focused on teaching my son to read. #notimeforschool 🤪