I'm going to try to not go into too much detail here, but I want to provide enough to give some context.
As some of you may know, my wife home schools our son. He's also "special needs", and the traditional school environment just does not work for him. My wife is a stay at home mom anyway (SAHM's really don't get the credit they deserve, IMHO). She teaches above and beyond what is required here for home schooling (since home schools here are considered Private Schools). She teaches him Math, Science, Technology, Language Arts (including foreign languages), Art, Music, Social Studies, and a couple of other things. So it's like a real curriculum. She even does "interdisciplinary" studies.
Anyway, we haven't actually told anyone that we're home schooling (aside from the local school district), or about his diagnosis. We figure we'll tell him when he's older, and if he wants to tell people, he can.
The problem is, someone, somewhere, said something. We don't know if someone at the district office blabbed to someone who knows one of my family members, or what. I know this because my sister emailed me the other day trying to ask me leading questions. Then she mentioned something about me dodging her questions, and said something like, "I guess the rumor is true."
Needless to say, my wife is pissed about it. She suggested I just ignore the email. We really don't want family members butting in to this. We really don't think they'd understand his diagnosis, or our decision to home school.
So I'm trying to just figure out if I should let it go, and see what happens, or what sort of course of action I should take.
As some of you may know, my wife home schools our son. He's also "special needs", and the traditional school environment just does not work for him. My wife is a stay at home mom anyway (SAHM's really don't get the credit they deserve, IMHO). She teaches above and beyond what is required here for home schooling (since home schools here are considered Private Schools). She teaches him Math, Science, Technology, Language Arts (including foreign languages), Art, Music, Social Studies, and a couple of other things. So it's like a real curriculum. She even does "interdisciplinary" studies.
Anyway, we haven't actually told anyone that we're home schooling (aside from the local school district), or about his diagnosis. We figure we'll tell him when he's older, and if he wants to tell people, he can.
The problem is, someone, somewhere, said something. We don't know if someone at the district office blabbed to someone who knows one of my family members, or what. I know this because my sister emailed me the other day trying to ask me leading questions. Then she mentioned something about me dodging her questions, and said something like, "I guess the rumor is true."
Needless to say, my wife is pissed about it. She suggested I just ignore the email. We really don't want family members butting in to this. We really don't think they'd understand his diagnosis, or our decision to home school.
So I'm trying to just figure out if I should let it go, and see what happens, or what sort of course of action I should take.
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