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[quote=Anonymous]Factors to consider:

a) Your time -- how many children do you have, how many do you supplement?

b) Availability of outside classes you feel are worth it (Chinese schools/Kumon/Wednesday Bible classes/AoPS/ etc) vs what you are doing at home.

c) How biddable is your child? Some are a lot easier than others.

d) How many activities and how intense are the ones they involved in? Can drill multiplication tables and talk about geography facts in the car on the way there, but it's hard to be as systematic, and e.g. softball practice runs long.

e) How easy is it for you to cobble together material for supplementation that you feel are appropriate/do you have contacts who can give you options? Easy to get paralyzed. Education is my hobbyhorse, but other people have different kooky obsessions.

I think I probably could've supplemented without much difficulty through sixth grade, because the homework demands in our useless, but well-regarded elementary school were relatively light. (We bailed at fourth, but it was Covid.)  I do think it gets progressively more difficult as they get older. I am a very light touch in high school, and not just because my oldest is at a school that I trust adequately covers the material.[/quote]

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