Well I FINALLY told my boss Monday about our decision to homeschool. I figured out of all the people at work,....she would be the most supportive of our decision since I was told that she is a Christian.
WOW! was I wrong!

What is ironic/funny is one of my friends here on H.S.B.  posted a comment on another blog entry of mine & said, "Typically the non believers will be more supportive than most of the believers" WOW were they sooooooo right!!!
97% of the people I work with are NOT believers & are VERY supportive of our decision!!!! Why can't fellow believers wake up &see the truth about the p.s. system?? (Guess we will never fully understand)

ANYWAY...back to the story..

Well my boss, came right out & told me she IS NOT a fan of homeschooling & that she don't think it is a good idea! Well I was in a state of shock & at the same time a bit irritated at how she said it. Somehow, Obviously by the grace of God.. I remained AMAZINGLY calm & civil about the whole thing.
I just said, "Oh really?! Why is that I figured you would be supportive of homeschooling seeing how you are very smart/educated yourself"
(which I honestly meant because she is very smart!) 
Well, her reason was that she felt the public school system had better books & stuff available to the kids than what she could get & the teachers could do a better job." (ok that is her opinion)
So I explained to her how the possibilities are ENDLESS .. that there are lots of different cirriculum to choose from & also the amount of free online resources would blow her mind! Well.... Then she said, "Well, how do you know you are keeping your kids up to par with the p.s. system & what about highschool cirriculum?" I explained to her that you do have to be accountable & turn in a portfolio of your kids work & meet with an evaluator at the end of every school year & they go over all of the kids work & let me know how we are doing.
If I don't do a good job they WILL let me know & if it continues that my kids aren't learning enough they can eventually make me put them into private or public school. I told her as far as highschool goes, that is a long ways off for my kiddoz... we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
She also asked me why we were deciding to homeschool. I told her for various reasons, 1) I don't like the cirriculum they are using in public school... ESPECIALLY math. Along with other reasons. I would have LOVED to go into detail on the whole Christian convictions/moral aspect of why we are choosing to home school.. But at this point I figured I am just wasting my breath!! Pretty much the whole time she had this very irritated, sour grape look on her face, I could tell she wasn't happy with the whole thing & felt like she was trying to make me feel stupid & lower my morale.
 So I just quit talking about the homeschooling & got to the point of how it was going to affect my hours/days worked there... I told her that I would only be available 1 or 2 days a week & only in the evenings.

She was NOT happy... she said, "Well then that makes you just as available as the highschool kids...so I can't depend on you to come in if we need you in the afternoon..??"
I said, "nope can't do afternoon & only 1 or 2 days during the week & in the evening. Homeschooling it's self will be a fulltime job."
She said, "What about saturday & sunday?"
I told her, "Nope because that is the ONLY time hubby is off of work & we can do stuff during the day AS A FAMILY." 
She said... "Well, at this rate I don't think we would keep you on the schedule when you start this" 
I told her that was up to her, not me.  
Well...At this point.. I could feel my German/Irish blood start to boil!!
Just from the things she said & was trying to sorta talk me into by making me feel guilty!
 I felt like she was trying to influence my decision to homeschool..& putting me on the spot  LIke I MUST CHOOSE...your job or your family & homeschooling your kids!!!

Well, I don't know what she was thinking?...  maybe that I can be that easily  influenced with her negative/pointless points of view!!?!?!  (I don't know LOL!)
Obviously she thought that this job is more important to me than my family & our kids education & futures! 
 
 All she said was, "Well get back to me on specific date when you are doing this"... I just calmly said ok. & that was it. Well I did tell her it would be the end of March .. I am going to discuss a date with the hubby & get back to her. At this rate.. if it weren't for the hubby being laid off ... I would have just put in my 2 weeks.

Give me your THOUGHTS & Comments on my post :) I enjoy reading your helpful advice/input.  

Sorry this turned out to be ANOTHER LONG Ranting post.
I hope you enjoy my "journey" & bear with me & enjoy my rantings:)

GOD BLESS You ALL.
Shannon