I’m confused - why are people developing their own curriculum if the school is assigning work?

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Anonymous wrote:Helicoptering

Irrational Upper Middle Class fear that their kids won't get into a good enough college

+1000

Or they’re doing it so their kids are educated human beings...gasp! They horribleness of it! A parent wanting their child to have KNOWLEDGE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helicoptering

Irrational Upper Middle Class fear that their kids won't get into a good enough college

+1000

Or they’re doing it so their kids are educated human beings...gasp! They horribleness of it! A parent wanting their child to have KNOWLEDGE.

We have a homeschool online program which our kids take as 'tutoring' in the evenings for math and science. It's a way to have the courses taught in a different way and at their own pace if they haven't grasped things in class. It works well. We aren't 'homeschooling' but the extra material is definitely beneficial.

I don't care about college as much as I care that they have a broad understanding of the material taught and not just learning to pass a standardized test.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helicoptering

Irrational Upper Middle Class fear that their kids won't get into a good enough college

This is not it. Some folks have kids that are bored. My youngest kid just does whats assigned and that's it. That's his personality type, he does a good job but then he needs some downtime. He doesn't want any extra work, he doesn't want to learn another language, he just wants to finish his math homework and go ride his bike around the block. My oldest is very different. When he was younger, I would constantly hear how bored he was. Everything was boring. So we introduced supplementing. He would easily go through a book a week in K, so I'd assign him a book report (just a few sentences and a picture). He wanted to learn Spanish. He wanted to do piano. And then he wanted to do guitar. He took apart a computer and then wanted to learn coding in 4th grade. His schedule is busy and he loves it, he gets up at 6am and he's ready to get the day started. Some kids thrive on always being on the go, they thrive on being challenged, that's their personality type. As long as parents aren't forcing their kids to do things and the kids are happy and engaged, why not add to the watered down curriculum of public schools?

because they get ahead of the class and are a headache for teachers

let your kid play more this is elementary school for goodness sakes

math acceleration is pointless

Honestly they need to start holding kids back. Right now they teach to the slowest learners because everything needs to be equal but what they really need to do is move at a regular pace and anyone who can't keep up needs to be held up and allow the parents to figure out tutoring.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helicoptering

Irrational Upper Middle Class fear that their kids won't get into a good enough college

+1000

Or they’re doing it so their kids are educated human beings...gasp! They horribleness of it! A parent wanting their child to have KNOWLEDGE.

Exactly this. We have a problem with education in this country and the divide is only getting larger because some parents truly value education and knowledge, while other parents just want some free babysitting from the local public school and couldn't be bothered to even open up a book.

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Anonymous wrote:Who has time to supplement their child’s education? My DH and I work full time, we have zero extra time for this crap. Why, why, why are we paying taxes?

Well, I do have time since I don't work. We probably pay less tax than you though, so I guess it even out, since I am spending about 10k this year on extracurriculars and tutors (a social pod for my K).

We pay $15,000/year in taxes, mostly for the great schools. We work full time stressful jobs, and do not have the time nor patience to supplement after work every day. We don’t even arrive home until after 6:30pm.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who has time to supplement their child’s education? My DH and I work full time, we have zero extra time for this crap. Why, why, why are we paying taxes?

Well, I do have time since I don't work. We probably pay less tax than you though, so I guess it even out, since I am spending about 10k this year on extracurriculars and tutors (a social pod for my K).

We pay $15,000/year in taxes, mostly for the great schools. We work full time stressful jobs, and do not have the time nor patience to supplement after work every day. We don’t even arrive home until after 6:30pm.

Why even have kids at that point if you only see them for an hour a day?