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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most public school kids here are effectively homeschooled first few years.  We pulled out of public because our kid learned zero there, literally NOTHING, and I work a lot of hours - too many to homeschool at night.  She told us all she did was color and talk about which pilgrims liked corn or whatever.  Public parents used to always say "well it's the parents responsibility to teach, not the school."  Parents taught their kids to read, gave them math workbooks, took them to Kumon, Russian math or spider math, coding, test prep, etc.  That is homeschooling.  Then, they'd boast how "gifted" their heavily homeschooled/prepped kids were and how excellent their public was, when everyone knew it wasn't organic IQ.  Oh brother.  If my parents put that much effort into my academics in the home, I'd probably be freaking Dougie Houser[/quote]

Coloring and pilgrim corn predilections...sounds like an eclectic school.

If I send my kid to train with a professional pitcher to work on his pitching mechanics (outside of his normal team), I don't say I "hometrained" him.  Not sure how using 3rd parties where all the parent does is register their kid for the class is homeschooling.

Many of the top international school systems, Finland namely, don't spend a ton of time teaching direct educational skills until much later than in the US.  Most kids in Finland don't learn to read until age 7.  They actually spend a ton of time in the earlier years on group dynamics and social skills.  Yet, they routinely have some of the best international test scores at the HS years.[/quote]

Baseball is not a school subject, so you're right, teaching a kid baseball is not like homeschooling.  We aren't in Finland either.[/quote]

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