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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make my kids do worksheets, spellings, writing practice, cursive, multiplication tables and elocution practice at home.

I cannot control what they do in public schools and I have low opinion of private schools in US. So, I use the public schools as a mainstream socializing tool, but, what I need my kids to really learn, it is all happening every single day at home. [/quote]

I got tired of doing all of this. I can supplement one or two subjects, sure, but not everything! There’s no time for sports, music, family time, and we need flexibility in the early evenings. We switched to parochial and just supplement math. [/quote]

This is my issue too- they are already in school all day!  Plus i have a fulltime job myself and am not a teacher.  [/quote]

DP and this was us too.

So now my kids are in private. Math comes from a workbook. There are worksheets for history. There are papers for writing. There are weekly spelling tests. There are grammar units. There are whole class novels, which are read aloud in the younger grades. Computer time is mostly (with some exceptions) typing practice for when they start typing more assignments in middle school.

Is it perfect? No. But is it what I want for now? Yes.[/quote]

This also is what we do, with a school curriculum either similar or identical to that description.

Honestly, we would homeschool -- for purely academic reasons -- if we could. For us, we need 2 FT out of house jobs to make finances work.  So the above is the best we can do right now. [/quote]

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