Alan wrote:
Oy vey, for the 97th time, _I am not against homeschooling_.
Given a district that provides a sub-par high school education, such that
your average kplugger could do a better job simply by reading a chapter
ahead in the book, my instinct would be to drastically improve the
school[1], thus improving the situation for all the children rather than
simply yanking my kids out.
Obviously, homeschoolers and I do not see eye to eye on this. This is ok.
My wife and I fight with all the schools quite often (used to be 4
schools, now only 2 as 2 kids are adults now). Problem is those of us
who do fight are still far out numbered by those who don't. So, while
we've managed to keep our kids getting good grades, and attempt to teach
them correctly when we can (Have you seen the simplifications to math in
elementary school now? All it does is confuse the kids when they move on
later and are taught math at higher levels.)
My wife won't home school because she knows there are some subjects she
can't teach. I make the money, so I can't do it. I am looking into
private school though (and as I said, we do our best to fill in the
missing parts). We also insist that if our kids are not passing, they
are not allowed to graduate (they call it "promotion" or "getting
promoted" now).
PGA
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