mother-teacher

Today is the first day of the rest of my son's education. He will oficaiily begin lessons on the 18th of August, a whole week before public school has begun lessons. Am I scared to do this? Oh, I would so be fibbing if I said otherwise. SO I will just say maybe. Let me introduce myself to this online world. My name is Araminta and I am home schooling my son in the classical style of learning with a bit of unschooling and Socratic method in there as well. I will explain each style as I appraoch them. I will refer to my son as simply E, for his privacy as he is a minor and I want no weirdo trying to contact him . . . hay it happens. He is 8 years of age and has ADHD and narcissistic behavior. Some would claim he has Aspersers, but he has empathy skills and has no real math genius, so there goes that theory. I chose to home school him after three incidents with his public school. Kindergarten - slapped in face by teacher, old worn out crabby lady who got away with the slap because the cop was an a-hole and used the outdated, no longer in effect corporal punishment allowance, there was no real jurisdiction for or against it in the district. I chose to be against it. I pulled him out of the school and placed him in a different school for first grade, the teacher had no class room management skills and let three fights breakout in her class that year, I witnessed two and stopped one. My son was spit on by a class room bully on an IEP (individual education plan) because he was BI-POLAR and a brat. My son got in trouble because he used a martial arts chock hold on him. The IEP kid received no reprimand for spitting. NOT COOL. I decided to try his district school again for 2nd grade. The teacher was another old worn out child hater-doing-it-for-the- retirement-plan type and Eddy and she did not mesh well at all. He was a creative challenge who hated slow paced underachiever work, she was a teacher set in her lesson plan ways not willing to budge. After I discovered he was being out right ignored by her and harassed by a very unprofessional Para professional, I had enough. I have 217 pages, which I promise to publish exerts from on here in due time, showing the harassment he received and the blatant disregard for his rights as a human child to live without fear of harassment and abuse from an adult. I am considering legal action but for now, I did what was right by my child and quit my job and work only part time outside the home. I am now a bonafied teacher/mother/cook/ cleaner/ all around devoted housewife and mother-teacher.It is not going to be easy. Teaching is a learning process. There are people who do it for 25+ years and end up truly hating kids but stay in it for the pay check and retirement. I will not get a pay check but hopefully in 10 years, I can retire from the position and let a university take over.