As an aside. I met another home school parent yesterday when I took my daughter to pick up her tball uniform for this season. The meeting spot was the local Legion and there is a park right next to it. My daughter wanted to play in the playground at the park.
She started playing with a little boy and so I was talking to the little boys mom and she said she has 4 kids. The oldest is in high school now and is still in public school but the two middle ones she pulled out of school after covid and started homeschooling them and the youngest who my daughter was playing with would be homeschooling as well starting next school year.
I was so pleased. I feel somewhat vindicated with this trend after years of Yuppies that worked on Bay street (Canadian wall street) and for Google that lived in my neighbourhood looking at me sideways when I said my son was homeschooled. These are the type of people that leave their kids with a nanny 24/7 so both parents can be corporate fiat slaves for 80 hours a week to pay for their 2M home and matching mercedes but will pass judgement on you and act like you are a bad parent for trying to give your kid the best education and environment to learn and grow.
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I think those kind of parents lash out at parents like you and your wife because deep down they believe they should be giving their kids more attention.
I know my mom feels guilty about working so much, even though we were definitely not affluent.
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Agreed. We have a very different lifestyle now and it was a major upgrade.
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