Today Jr. Picasso read all of the letters to “read” Heinz Tomato Ketchup. I was so proud I almost cried! He and I have been playing with the alphabet uppercase and lowercase for about three months and his recognition is at about 95% for uppercase and above 80% for lowercase. The lowercase letters that he has trouble with are the ones with great similarity (b, p, q, d etc). Still for three-years-old I think he’s doing fantastic!!

Its times like these that I reinforce my interest in homeschooling him. First off at the front is the fact that the poor little bugger cannot attend public school till he’s six due to his birthday being AFTER the cutoff. Second I think about how much he will have learned by that time combined with the less than stellar quality of the available schools and well it makes it a lot easier to consider homeschooling.

Recently in our local paper there was an article about how the very elementary that my little boy would go to will have THREE kindergarten classes next year with an anticipated enrollment of 30 children in each class. 30 5 & 6 year olds…..have mercy on that kindergarten teacher!! And a handfull of those children will be from Altoona!

Altoona? you say.

Yep the powers that be didn’t forcast the growth of the community adequately and therefore do not have enough room for all the children from Altoona IN Altoona. So several families have children in Altoona with there little kindergartener being shipped off to Mitchellville!!
I ask the question – Where do the Mitchellville kids go when there is no room at Mitchellville!?!

And to make it even better the powers that be are now forecasting a 7% community growth in the next five years which I personally think may be a little low and they think that ONE elementary school will be enough to handle it. BUT and here’s the kicker…..the elementary school they are talking about hasn’t even been put to bonding yet…

They don’t have the money yet!!

So I look at my munchkin…sprawled out on the floor in the living room working his “homework” number book or playing “what’s that letter” and I think…..homeschooling him might be fun and it certainly would be less crowded!!!

Article by Diane West I liked. She talks about why a person might decide to take the plunge to homeschool. OpinionJournal – Taste