As-salaam alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa-barakatuhu

Our family went to school for 10 years and we had been integrated into the system, breaking away did have its anxieties and a few withdrawal pains, but this July as I watched as most families making a mad dash to uniform and stationary shops, I realized there were somethings I been relieved off now that the kids do not go to school and here they are:
- being stressed all day over a forgotten homework copy only to have your child come home and cheerfully tell you that the teacher did not ask for it today

Our family went to school for 10 years and we had been integrated into the system, breaking away did have its anxieties and a few withdrawal pains, but this July as I watched as most families making a mad dash to uniform and stationary shops, I realized there were somethings I been relieved off now that the kids do not go to school and here they are:
- the mad dash to the always crowded uniform/ stationary/ shoe shops before the school year begins
- fretting over a forgotten lunch box, school badge, note book when kids have left for school

rehearsing for a spelling test all week to find out that the test is postponed to the next week and sometimes canceled with a new list to practice for next week
- reading homework!!! "read the chapter 5 times each of five days to be tested at the end of the week" (If the teacher has time/ remembers)
- Dress up day: "why can't i be spiderman? all my friends will"
- Notices that say: Please send a chart paper/ thermoboll sheet / a green snack / a white tee shirt/ a white orchid for TOMORROW's activity
- Frantic calls to other parents to make sense of homework written in kid's diary
- Stress to locate school books when a teacher has not returned a book but assigned homework in it - yes it happens!
- Stress when the child's bench mate has accidentally taken your child's homework book home, guilt when your child has brought home someone else's book home
- new concepts introduced 2 weeks before examinations
- The whole month of stress just before examination week!
- Trying to make your child complete all the review homework then making him practice those concepts he really needs to review
- frantic calls to/ from parents/ teachers to verify if the school is closed the following day due to disturbances in the city
- having to insist that my child must write his speech/ essay/ poem on his own because its his work and it doesn't matter if his friend's father/ mother/ aunty/ grandfather who is a doctor/ lawyer/college professor wrote it for him and he'll win the contest
-teachers who think your child is strange because he doesn't draw faces on pictures/ likes to draw butchers and guns/ doesn't enjoy colouring/ wears shorts that cover his knees
- PTMs where a subject teacher addresses your child by somebodyelse's name and then tells you about his progress (is she speaking about him or the child whose name she addressed him as?)
- Holiday Home work!!!
ALHUMDULILLAH what a relief!
Feel free to share your experiences too.
Feel free to share your experiences too.
Assalamu alaikum,
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the points you mention. Homeschooling definitely is a relief - in fact, sometimes I even feel 'guilty' that things seem to be flowing too smooth or kids. :):):)
Nice new design for your blog!!!
Wassalam,
Laila