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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I effectively homeschool my child in math and increasingly take over English too. My experience with elementary grades public school is that curriculum is poorly organized, moves at a very slow pace, and most teachers are mathphobes that don’t have the skill or interest to put together an exciting and challenging math class. I’m also waking up to the fact that language instruction is quite terrible too, particularly in writing.

What I found out in public vs diy homeschooling is that at least in math, my child can go at about 3x the rate of learning, covering about three grades in one year. It slows down a bit afterwards, but in some sense public school feels like such a waste of time. I’m looking at a charter school next year that screens students and place them in appropriate grade.

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Sur. Because youre teaching one kid at a time and not 20. [/quote]

Not a knock on teachers, just an acknowledgement that she can do it better for her own child.[/quote]

NP.

I think that homeschool is often better and not just because one-on-one is faster. Public school is just bad in so many ways in the elementary years. It’s not the teachers’ fault. Teacher training is bad. The curriculum is based on outdated theories of human development (like the idea that young children can’t understand basic history and math), ideas that have no basis in the science of learning, and attempts at reform that lost most everything good during the political process.

And I want to stress that the problem isn’t public school per se. I’m sure a lot of private schools have the same bad systems in place.

These are the conclusions I have come to as I did a bunch of research for homeschooling my kid (he needed to *not* be doing virtual school). It is hard to stick with it for me, especially when I have a lot of other things going on, so I am sure a lot of kids who are homeschooled get bad educations (in Virginia they do have to take standardized tests). But I promise you, even on the days I half-ass it, my son is getting better instruction than he would get at school just because im using a better curriculum. [/quote]

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