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[quote=Anonymous]I was home-schooled by my mother for a year and a half, OP. The school district we lived in was okay (small town in Illinois) but the specific elementary school that I attended was not a great experience for me. Their academic tracking system was rigid, such that a student entering the school in 4th grade (which I did because we relocated to the area) was not able to place or test into their gifted and talented programs. I was placed in basic reading and math classes, which were well below the level of the 3rd grade I'd attended the year before elsewhere. The teacher was autocratic, dismissive of my previous educational experiences (at a private school that uses an alternative education method) and hostile to my mom, who spent the first quarter of 4th grade trying to figure out ways to work with the teacher to improve my experience. The superintendent was wonderful (and actually remains a family friend to this day), but the staff at that elementary school were terrible, and my mom, who stayed home with my younger siblings, made the decision to pull me out of school at winter break and teach me home the rest of the year and the following year because of that specific elementary school.

We bought textbooks for math and science and a stack of novels and non-fiction books. I wrote essays and learned about basic writing principles. We also did art projects, cooking projects and spent a lot of time outside. I'm not musical or athletic, so we didn't really do those things, but I maintained friendships with neighborhood kids. It was basically the same social set up as the handful of kids who went to private school - we'd all go to our various "schools" in the morning and then when school let out, we'd play in someone's yard.

I returned to public education for 6th grade having begun learning algebra and geometry and reading novels that are usually assigned in high school. My family is not religious, so it was not a religious education issue. I was not being bullied, so it was not a social issue. [/quote]

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