i want to go to public school?

You are a liar with some agenda. You are not a home schooled student. Your grammar is too poor for even a 7th grade home schooled student.

If I were u I would try to convunce her by telling her that u just want to ty public school in 7th grade, and that if she starts to see u are picking up bad habits she can homeschool u again!

Or maybe wait until seventh grade, and tell her the same thing, so if u r good she will let u go to public shool all through high school!

I am sorry to tell u this, but I think that ur mom doesn’t have any right to keep u at homeschool, becuse u have the right to decided were u want u want to go to school and make ur own choices, BUT AS LONG AS THEY ARE GOOD CHOICES!!!

Good luck!!!! =)

I would suggest sitting down and giving her honest reasons on why you want to go to public school. Also, try to have her see that you are older now and that you would be more aware of what “bad habits” are and that you would be willing to try very hard to avoid such behaviors. That said, you will need to be willing to follow your mom’s direction if she felt you needed to be a little more disciplined in your study habits while attending public school. I would ask her to let you give it a try for a year and then do everything you can to own up to your end of the bargain by showing her you can be a good student in this environment. It may even be a good idea to suggest drawing up some kind of agreement regarding what she would expect to see from you and then sticking to it. Good luck!

I think you will have to negotiate and draw up a contract. As a parent I would be concerned re lack of academic progress and picking up negative behaviors. So if you went to school on a semester by semester trial basis you could agree to maintain grades at a certain level, keep a reasonable curfew, maintain your chores at home, not smoke, drink, swear etc, and have her able to loosely monitor your friends. She needs the security of knowing that you are safe and learning and you need to prove to her that you are mature enough to conduct yourself in a satisfactory manner when you are out in the wilds of the public school system. It would also be helpful if you could have examples of kids who go to public school successfully. You are the one who would be benefiting from the contract so you also have to accept the fact that if you breach it, it’s back to homeschool.

So what John P is saying is that because you have poor spelling he isn’t home schooled? Tell your mom you want to make friends, and that you aren’t learning enough from her.

You have a consensus already from your answers: talk to your parents. Both of them. They are not married anymore, but they are still your parents. No one kind of education is right for everybody. Because you’re still a kid, you will have to accept their decision, though. I’m sure they will make the best choice they can for you.

Request to try it for a year… I think that at your age peer interaction is rather important. You do need to be around kids your own age… If she doesn’t feel it’s working out, then you can decide as a family what should be happening…

You could always tell your mom that you want to live with your dad… You are probably old enough to decide where you want to live…

wait til high school, just get through homeschooled 7th and 8th right now, ur not missing anything at real school lol.

Than just tell her. Tell her you’ll just want to try a year to see if you like it.

Explain to her that at public school you could grow more as a person by experiencing…life basically. Not saying you won’t grow by homeschooling but you will be “molded” better as a person and you will be able to endure situations that will happen later in life (i.e college, getting jobs, relationships, rejection). Plus maybe you will meet interesting people… different people.