Friday, December 19, 2008
No More Posts
I will not be posting to this sight any longer. I will leave it up as a source of links for people looking for information about home schooling in the Dayton area. We have elected to enroll our daughter in the Ohio Virtual Academy. This is a public charter school that provides curriculum and a computer free of charge so that a child can be educated at home using K12 curriculum.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Long Time No Blog
Last year I started this site in an effort to unite homeschool and virtual school parents in the Dayton region. I initiated the map of homeschooling families to help others and met some of the folks who post to some of the Yahoo groups in the region regarding homeschooling. As you can see by the list of participants to this site and the number of active posts, I have hit a brick wall.
Here is what I have discovered when talking to other homeschool mothers.
Most home schooling parents want information for themselves but aren't willing to give up any.
Many want to meet other parents to share activities and allow their children to socialize but aren't willing to go out of their way to make such things happen.
These were interesting discoveries because there were several attempts to initiate park days and a regular monthly meetings but attendence, to put it mildly, sucked big time.
So I have been working on some ideas that may just start to happen and it is great news if you happen to live in Dayton. Actually it doesn't matter if you live outside Dayton but those of us in the City won't have to drive 20 miles to participate in an activity! I will start to disclose them to this site and the local yahoo groups very shortly. Maybe we can inject a bit of life into this site. I also have a bunch of links that I need to add but that is another story.
Here is what I have discovered when talking to other homeschool mothers.
Most home schooling parents want information for themselves but aren't willing to give up any.
Many want to meet other parents to share activities and allow their children to socialize but aren't willing to go out of their way to make such things happen.
These were interesting discoveries because there were several attempts to initiate park days and a regular monthly meetings but attendence, to put it mildly, sucked big time.
So I have been working on some ideas that may just start to happen and it is great news if you happen to live in Dayton. Actually it doesn't matter if you live outside Dayton but those of us in the City won't have to drive 20 miles to participate in an activity! I will start to disclose them to this site and the local yahoo groups very shortly. Maybe we can inject a bit of life into this site. I also have a bunch of links that I need to add but that is another story.
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