Home Schooling

In this entry, I want to elaborate on home schooling. My younger sister and I were homeschooled for 5 years. If you read my first entry, you know that I cheated through the first year which was 5th grade. Well, to be honest, I half-assed it or just plain cheated my way through the 9th grade. THERE...I said it...I cheated my way through elementary school and never got caught! I really started to regret my decision to NOT GIVE A FUCK when I started the 10th grade at a public school. Needless to say, I started to GIVE A FUCK. It was too late tho. I had a 4.0 obviously, so when I registered for public school, my counselor suggested I take an advanced sicence and my dumb ass agreed to it. I barely passed physiology thanks to the grace of the good Lord and Mr. Lewis. The next year I took Physics. I got all the concepts but failed miserably at actually using the formulas because I was taking algebra 1 for the third year in a row and just could not get it. I switched schools mid year in the 11th grade and got pretty easy classes. I was placed in AP english which was passing, but talked my way out of almost every single assignment...(thank you Mr. Morace!). I moved back down to Louisiana the second semester of my senior year because I was tired of my dad and stepmom. I moved in with my grandma and began my last semester of highschol at Delcambre High. The only reason I graduated with my class(which by the way, were the same wonderful people I went to Kindergarden with) was because Delcambre still did their paperwork by hand. No computers or electronic filing. I watched Mrs. Penny VanBrocklin enter my credits that I trasnsfered with by hand. The only way she could get confirmation that I had actually took the classes was from my word. She finagled my transcript, I think added a credit or two and I walked with my new friends.

My highschool education suffered because I did not have a proper foundation to build on. Some would say that thats my fault for NOT GIVING A FUCK. What 5th grader actually GIVES A FUCK about geometry or whatever they learn in 5th grade since I havn't a clue.

My point is this:
When God gives you the gift of parenthood, He holds YOU responsible for that child's education. To hand over that responsibility to anyone else is a decision you must make carefully. My parents handed that decision over to me. I was 9 and didn't take my education seriously until it was too late. That was my parent's fault and they are responsible, no matter which way you slice it. When it comes time to make the decision about how Maggie will recieve her education, I hope I am wise enough to make the right decisions and give her the preperation and knowledge she needs to successfully complete high school and college.