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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I both have JDs; he also has a MSW.  We are fairly liberal and homeschool our kids.  We made the decision for multiple reasons.  Both kids are dedicated to non-school based sports.  One of them has an intense training schedule in the afternoons, while the other has travel tournaments that were causing her to miss school.  Involvement in these sports at this level was their choice, not mine.

Also, my kids were in public school when the pandemic hit.  I saw what was being taught (or rather, not being taught) and was appalled.  My kids were in 5th grade AAP at the time, and they did not know the parts of speech.  They lacked basic punctuation skills that I learned much earlier than 5th grade.  We have been using an old school English curriculum that teaches rigorous grammar and diagramming.  They are taking Geometry as 8th graders.

Finally, one of my kids had a very bad experience in public school.  She is quiet and studious and understood the material quickly, and she was pretty much ignored by teachers in the huge classes (30 kids in a trailer) at her AAP center.  She was routinely seated next to misbehaving boys to be a good influence or to balance the table or whatever other excuse they gave me.  She was badly bullied--including food allergy bullying--and the school did nothing for 18 months, until one girl wrote my daughter a note telling her to jump off a building and kill herself, because everyone hated her and no one would miss her.  The school was in the middle of a bullying investigation when the pandemic hit.  It was never completed.

We actually know many families like us in the homeschool co-op they attend.[/quote]

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