Is homeschooling a good answer to a truancy problem?

And other questions:

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my situatoin for a judge taking away my rights to homeschool my kid?Asked by djjjk2003 -

This parent is in a situation where she wants to homeschool a child who is in trouble for truancy in school. The judge, however ruled that the child should go back to school. Should this parent homeschool the child? Perhaps not, and some people who answered her question were pretty blunt and downright rude in their expression of that point. Here is an excerpt of her question,, so you can see why people objected to her homeschooling:

"my kid which is 14got a truencey ticket for not going to school so we had to go to court they suggested she should get an evaluatoin the guy asked her like 5 questoind ".

Needless to say, her spelling and grammar (in the question anyway) was atrocious, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt as it could have been a symptom of her distress.

Here is my response to her question: Her question may still be open on Yahoo Answers, so you can add your two cents if you want.

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If hslda.org does not give you the resolution you require, you may want to consider enrolling your child into an on line school. This way she is doing school at home.

While I am not a huge advocate of school at home, but rather homeschooling geared toward the child, if you are having problems with the judge, this may be your best option... depending on your state, it may or may not cost a lot. k12.com is public school at home and is free in a handful of states.

Meanwhile, be very careful about your own grammar, punctuation, and presentation because your fitness to homeschool your child may be judged on your own presentation.

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Thinking of Homeschooling any suggestions?Asked by summerall05 -

This parent was concerned about her child not being able to keep up with the class and the child's response to her failures. She believes homeschooling is the answer and wants suggestions. Of course she gets answers that say things like "In my opinion children who are home schooled are not as socially developed. i have met a few and i think they are not ready for the real world." Ugh... how annoying. (notice the lack of proper capitalization)

Here is my answer:

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For me, the most important question is... Is her spirit being broken. If so, stop whatever you are doing and try something new. For you, that may be homeschooling. For a while, you will have to not do anything that resembles school..... allow her to recover from her stresses. Then start sneaking in games... learning games. Scrabble, skip counting (for multiplication) while clapping, computer "games" like reader rabbit, and finally add a curriculum. I like time4learning.com because in the early years it is very much like playing, and before you know it she will love learning.