[blparent] home schooling

[Leanne Merren]

Hi Nikki,
The world is a scarry place, and I contemplated home schooling for my kids 
as well.  However, our Christian school uses the public school buses and 
they pick our kids up right at the corner of our street, so it has all 
worked out very conveniently for us.  I wouldn't send them to public school, 
so if that didn't work I would probably home school.
My reservations about home schooling were due to the fact that my kids don't 
have access to other sighted people very often at home.  We don't have 
family that live nearby, so they see people at church once a week (or twice 
for some programs), and sometimes friends come to visit or we go there, but 
they don't really have regular interaction with sighted people.  My children 
are all sighted, and I feel they need to relate to sighted people.  I can 
teach my kids most of what they need to know, but I imagine there are tricks 
to sight reading and maybe some other things such as eye contact that I 
would know nothing about.  Maybe they would pick it up on their own, or 
figure it out from the interactions they do have at times, but I just felt 
like this was a more beneficial way of doing that.  Our Christian school has 
been wonderful about accomidating us with email and actually they are going 
to mostly electronic communication to save money so it's been great for us.
I hope that helps.  Whatever you decide, I'm sure it will be the right 
decision for your daughter.
Leanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nikki Fugett-Dobens" <nfugett at cinci.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:55 PM
Subject: [blparent] home schooling


> Hi everyone.
> I had a question.  I'm not sure if this topic has ever been discussed.  If 
> it has, I'm sorry.
> My husband and I have been discussing options for school for our daughter. 
> Of course, it's a long way off, but you know how fast time flies.
> I feel like sometimes the world is a scary place.  I worry about her going 
> out, even to public school.  I've thought about private school, Christian 
> school, or monosory school, etc.  We've also thought about home schooling 
> her, but we're not sure how hard this would be both being visually 
> impaired teaching a sighted child to write and read print.
> It wouldn't be hard to teach her other skills.  We've both went to 
> college, but we're just not sure about reading and writing, and maybe 
> identifying colors, or other skills a sighted child learns.  We thought 
> about bringing in a tudor, but I was wondering if any of you have home 
> schooled your children, thought about it, or knew anyone who was visually 
> impaired who did.  Thanks for any advice you can give me.  I'm glad we 
> have a while to make this decision, because it's much more compicated than 
> I imagined.  Take care.
>    Nikki
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