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[quote=Anonymous]As an afterschooler (meaning I homeschool my child outside of school hours), I am trying to figure out the best way to coordinate with my child's new teacher on my daughter's education. It is most important to me that she learns logic and critical thinking skills, her own cultural history, and explore her own interest in natural science and astronomy (which she loves), all of which are things that are not taught in the public school curriculum. I also want her to practice writing (true writing), research and science (I am a scientist myself). But I foresee homework being a big problem, and I also don't want to overlap with the work I will be giving her along with the teacher.

I should also say that she is not attending a good school, its test scores are very low, the teachers are not the best, there is a high percentage of FARMS students, etc. and I feel compelled to fill in those gaps and ensure she doesn't get "left behind." We cannot afford to move into a better district or better school zone right now. And homeschooling completely is also not an option.

Have any of you approached the teacher with your afterschooling plans, and have they worked with you in coordinating your curriculum, activities, schedule etc.? I want to ask for the teacher's curriculum plans and schedule for the year (this is not posted on our county education website like other counties), but last year I got a lot of pushback from the teacher, who seemed to be almost secretive about it and annoyed. (I think she felt I did not trust her and seemed insulted). So I generally just taught her different things based on the homework she got, and had to do a lot of prodding to get info from the teacher each month on what they were learning about.

What is your relationship with your child's teacher when you are educating your child at home? I don't want to step on any toes, but then again, I don't want to play around with my daughter's education either because of hurt feelings. [/quote]

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