By: Mamymaestra

Mamymaestra — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:19:36 +0000

Hola, I´m Mexican. My homeschooled 10-year old son pays attention while building with legos or constantly changing positions on and off the couch, on the floor, etc, which at first exasperated me; and then I finally let him when I found out that he WAS listening to me. I pulled him out of fourth grade, last school term, and this year I´m also homeschooling my 13-year old daughter, who used to be the the best student in her class in “Primaria”, and won the third position in a competition against 16 other schools, and then was absolutely miserable and got terrible grades in her first year in “Secundaria”,(the H1N1 flu virus was partly to blame, bullying was another, not being able to make friends was another, an incredibly mean teacher who even got sacked was also to blame… and she just gave up and started hating school. I started yelling at her all the time, she stopped doing homework, she made us being late almost everyday, etc.) In Mexico only a few non- Catholic Christians are homeschooling, and we´re Catholic. I just know a handful of other Catholic homeschoolers, and not even one in Mexico City! I´d like to meet other homeschoolers, Catholic or not, but haven´t found any nearby yet. (Just another one in the city, but Mexico City is huge, and she has a toddler…)
We do have an “OPEN” schooling system, which is the Mexican Education Deparment´s INEA(just google INEA: Instituto Nacional para la Educación de Adultos) It´s conceived as a remedial network to help “school dropouts” to complete their education, mainly meant for adults. A new program was added for the 10 to 14 year olds who haven´t been able to complete their studies because of an illness, a natural disaster, moving house, poverty, etc. Quite a few homeschoolers have taken advantage of this, and have enrolled, naming their own parents their “asesores” or teachers, rather than being assigned one by that system. In this way, the kids get the “Primaria ” and “Secundaria” certificates, and now our homeschoolers can even get a High-School (Preparatoria” certificate from the UNAM (National Mexican University). Greetings from Mexico and good luck to you all

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:39:11 +0000

Wish they had been interested 35 years ago. My poor son had it so hard and all I got was that I wasn’t being strict enough, he needed more discipline or he was spoiled. I am very happy things are changing at least a little for the children and the moms.

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