Some Choices Are Made For Us

We started considering virtual or homeschooling a few weeks ago, although it's something we've always considered. We weren't sure we were going to do it yet, only look into it and see what we thought. Well, today I talked to Hunter's teacher and she let me know that there were some changes coming in the school and I have a feeling that she would no longer be his teacher.

This ways very heavy on our decision to pull him from the traditional school system. We have not been happy with the school district for several years and the kids have moved from school to school and teacher to teacher with some positives and some negatives each time we moved. Hunter has been shuffled from place to place and we have had many teachers who truly see his unique gifts and love him and work hard to help him. We have also had teachers who have only seen the negative in Hunter and have even allowed him to be bullied and picked on by other students during class, not doing anything to stop it and even at times making him feel like it was his fault.

This has caused a lot of trust issues with Hunter and it takes weeks or months for him to trust a teacher. This year with his new teacher he has built trust and now with another year coming and probably another change in teachers we really feel it is time for him to be schooled at home, where he will not need to have the constant changes of the school system.