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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve always supplemented with the goal that school is a sort of review.  DH is East Asian and was raised this way and it worked for him in getting a PhD so why not (in effect school is supplementing the education we provide as parents).  I think what most people miss though is that everything a parent does with a child is education.  Spending the day in the woods out back or on the water is much better than just reading about the natural sciences.  Speaking a second language at home is better than speaking it in a classroom for an hour a day three days a week.  Discussing history and geography while in the garden or working on a project in the basement, etc, etc.  We also have well stocked shelves in our library that cover everything and when asked a question neither of us know an answer to, we research it together.  Bottom line is that my children’s education is my responsibility.[/quote]

Yes. This. Raised by two black parents in a household that most on this board would consider "poor." My parents stressed education, supported and sent us to public school and also made sure we were additionally exposed to everything the pp said: trips to the museum, walks in the woods, science projects in the backyard garden, observing the eclipse, and tons and tons of books. Every one of their kids has an advanced degree and is happy in our respective careers. We are all raising our kids with the exact same model of supplementing the curriculum with project-based, the world is a classroom approach.[/quote]

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