As I've continued on our homeschool journey, it has gotten harder and harder to imagine my children in school. I am not at all a hardcore homeschool parent ("schools are BAD") or an unschool parent ("planned schooling of any sort is BAD"), and yet enrollment in a school, public or private, just gets harder to imagine.
Here's a case in point. Today, Lee and Lila were talking about vocabulary (what else do two smart kids talk about?), and Lila, who at ten years old is in fifth grade, mentioned to Lee that three of her vocabulary words this week were "wavy", "officer", and "ancient". Really?!? In 5th grade? I guess my expectations are just too high. Three of Lee's vocabulary words this week were "superfluous", "tangible", and "apprehension". Lila's a pretty smart kid and she reads a fair amount and at a fairly high level. How is she not bored to tears?
I still have this plan in the back of my head that our girls will stay home through middle school and then attend high school. This is because from my own experience I imagine middle school as the worst time to be in school. Whether this is a valid assumption or not, I do not know, but I'm sticking with it unless they scream to go to school.
But high school is something else. I cannot imagine them still homeschooling in high school. Maybe it's just too far away. But it's really hard to imagine how that would work: how I would manage it, and how they would be happy being at home at that age. But, then again, it gets harder and harder to imagine them in high school either.
Straight on to college, I say!
