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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter wanted to homeschool because the most interesting and cool people she knows are homeschooled.  Her peer group in school was not as smart and motivated, and the busywork drove her insane.

In real life (meaning adult life, because children are not, apparently, real), you have choices about how to manage tedium.  Sometimes you just have to do it.  Sometimes you share it with a partner or pay someone else to do it or accept the consequences of not doing it.  You can problem-solve and minimize tedium; it's an important life skill.

In most schools, you have few choices.  There's no reward for mastery.  You are still doing the same work over and over, and it's robbing you of time you need to learn something more interesting.  It is hugely disrespectful to children to burden them with endless worksheets so some meaningless box can be checked.  It presumes they have nothing better to do, which is generally not true at all.  When I think about the time my bright, curious, inventive daughter has had stolen from her by moronic busywork covering material she had mastered long before... argh.  What a waste of the short, precious time she has to discover and master what she truly loves.  [/quote]

It sounds like you were not in a good school district.  My children go to school with many bright and very interesting individuals.  One friend spent the summer building homes in Costa Rica.  During the school year, several spend lots of time working in the school garden.  After school many of them participate in a drama club that puts on twice-yearly shows.  Many play on the soccer team together.  In the summer, they swim and often hold lemonade stands to raise money for needy families.  Our school holds a science fair, has an international night, does a "famous impersonator" wax museum, has an alphabet parade for younger children, collects books and clothes for the less fortunate, has field trips to the mountains, historic sites, and science centers.  The school offers a a math club, a choir, an orchestra, and Odyssey of the Mind.

What school district were you in that your child only did repetivie worksheets with no rewards for mastery with no interesting or cool students?[/quote]

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