Send your kids to public school and NEVER have to COOK again?
By betsyraeduke
@betsyraeduke (2670)
United States
February 24, 2010 10:04am CST
Recently I started a discussion here for the purpose of gathering some information on the subject of homeschooling kids. Now I am quite aware of the fact that some people are opposed to this idea, which is okay. However, I received one response in which the person stated, "having to cook most everyday", as one of the reasons that they were opposed to homeschooling....Currently my kids are in public school and I cook most every day anyway. I cook dinner most every night, as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner most every weekend, and sometimes I cook breakfast during the week....The only exception to cooking dinner would be when we eat out or something like that, which we don't do very often.....My point being, I cook most every day anyway, lol. So what does the concept of cooking have to do with homeschooling? (Lunch could be sandwiches or one could even take their kids out to lunch for about the same price as school lunch since kid's meals are often cheaper at restaurants)....So....???
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@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
24 Feb 10
I have no idea I totally agree with you bestyraedrake I also cook everyday sometimes twice aday an the kids being in school is not going to stop me from having something ready for them when they get home
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@sassy28 (834)
• United States
25 Feb 10
Well dang, I send my kids to a private school so I have been missing out on the never cooking again. I might have to consider sending them next year to a public school, if they plan on doing all of my cooking. LOL. I think it was just misread, I am sure they did not mean it literally. If so, where does she live I am moving there.
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
25 Feb 10
i don't understand the relationship between sending the kids to the public school and never have to cook again... doesn't really make sense to me... i think regardless what school we send our children to, we still have to cook... i think that person's response sounds really absurd and ridiculous to me... there is no correlation at all between sending the kids to public school and cooking... take care and have a nice day...
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
24 Feb 10
Maybe they were trying to say that when the kids are home, there will be a lot more housework to do (summer is a perfect example of this). Probably not a good reason not to homeschool unless you reeeeally hate housework and cooking..... Everyone is different. What is not a stress to one person can be very overwhelming to another...
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
24 Feb 10
Yes, they probably were just trying to express that homeschooling would mean more work. I think the way they put it came across as sort of humorous though. 
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@ElsaElsa (323)
• United States
24 Feb 10
If anything I feel like I cook a lot now that we are in a recession. It doesn't matter whose home and whose not, I'm somehow in the kitchen all the time. Homeschooling may make cooking a bit harder since the kids are there and usually make it hard to get things done such as cooking. So I don't see any advantage in sending kids to public school to avoid cooking everday because it is likely that cooking everday is one thing you can't save on no matter where your kids go to school.
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@Cutie18f (9546)
• Philippines
25 Feb 10
I am reminded of a kid in our neighborhood who, instead of being in school, was just hanging around, so I asked him why he was absent from school and he said because my mother has no breakfast to prepare for me. So I think it has something to do with this. Kids are supposed to be fed well before going to school, and if the mother has no food for the kid, then it is better for the kid to be absent. Homeschooling then would save the mother from having to worry about what food to cook since the kids are just home and they can just have any food, anytime.
