📝 WIBTA if I kicked my brother out of my homeschool?

By MMsPrincess • Score: 2 • April 25, 2025 1:23 AM


I homeschool both myself (18F) and my brother (20M). We both failed in school, and I felt like I was going nowhere. No one would listen to me when I needed help and I kept missing school from being sick, so I planned to drop out. But then I found out I could technically homeschool myself since there's nothing in the law that says someone can't homeschool themselves where I live, and I'm within the ages allowed to be homeschooled.

So when I turned 18, I withdrew from the school I was at and started doing homeschooling. Then my mom started complaining about him still not graduating and missing school. And then she joked about him doing homeschooling with me, so I looked into how that could be possible since he was almost 20, and I can homeschool him. So I set that up, and I've been trying to homeschool him.

Now to why I want to kick him out of it. He spends most of his time playing games with his friends. And doesn't do much school work or help out around the house.
I constantly have to ask him to do things around the house as if I'm his mom or something, and it's just too much for me. I have to be both my own student, my own entire school, his entire school, and his mommy telling him to help out around the house only for him to not and then I end up having to do everything anyways.

And today it just got to me because I had to hand wash half the dishes in the sink so I could cook and eat food, because he went off to his room in the middle of doing dishes. Then, when he came out to finish washing dishes, he saw the loaded dishwasher and went to his room instead of unloading and reloading the dishwasher. I asked him to do the dishes two days ago cuz I had unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, and was tired, so I asked him to do it. Yesterday he still hadn't done them, so I asked him again, and he said he couldn't because he was busy playing video games with his friends. So then I talked to him and explained that he wasn't helping out enough and that I can't keep having to ask him all the time to do things, and he said he understood and that he'd do better. And then still didn't do the dishes until 3 pm today. He only did a few dishes, then went to his room.
And I feel like I'm going insane with constantly having to ask him and then end up doing most of the cleaning and then I can't take care of the school stuff or even my life in general because I have to clean 24/7. And then I have to take care of my mom and my little brother. And no one seems to get or care how much I'm doing.
So I was going to tell him I couldn't be both his mommy and his school and give him his withdrawal letter to make a decision, but I'm not sure if that would be too irrational or something.

So WIBTA for kicking my brother out of homeschool.

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