You're sending your kids where?!?!

Telling our friends and family about our decision to allow our daughter to attend cyber school was a bit of a challenge. People don't understand the concept or what it's all about. Most of family, at first, was neither supportive or against it but once they listened to our spiel and realized how many positive aspects there are, they became supportive. We had to really educate people about it. But there will always be people that won't agree and won't support any decision that just a little "out of the norm". If you're going to make the decision to send your kids to cyber school you're just going to have to accept that not everyone is going to agree with your decision. Here are just a few of the questions/comments you may want to prepare yourself for:
Why would you want to keep your kids cooped up in the house?
You're de-socializing them. Do you want them to be anti-social?
Kids are supposed to go to school everyday and be around the same kids everyday. School is an experience from kindergarten to college.
Are you qualified to teach?
How do you know they're getting a good education?
What about sports, school band, trips, prom?

We have one family member that gave us a pretty hard time about sending our daughter to cyber school. We tried to explain that it is not home schooling (although we have nothing against home schooling), we, the parents, are not the teachers, she is being taught by qualified teachers and we are very involved as parents, she still gets about 18 hours a week of other structured activities with kids her age and that's not including unstructured time with her friends, that school should not be a one size fits all and that in public school our daughter was being deprived of a good education and now her needs are being met. All the explaining in the world is not going to convince everyone. And cyber school is not for everyone but if after doing your research you decide it's for you and your family don't let well meaning but uninformed friends and family convince you otherwise. You should be proud of yourself for taking control of your children's education.


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