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[quote=Anonymous]I completely agree with PP 01:28.

I have an off-the-charts elementary-school child whose differences from their peers have always been noticeable and are getting more and more noticeable over time. For better or for worse, my child is highly extroverted and socially adept. They are at an independent school where most of their classmates seem bright, probably several are gifted, and many are high achieving.

As parents we deeply frustrated because the number of extracurriculars that our child is in (following the advice to "enrich") feels overwhelming from a family schedule perspective. All this stuff is at the child's insistence, even though it means that they have almost no free time. (We are very strong believers in the value of free play, and bemoan overscheduling.)

We're paying incredibly high tuition, our child is learning almost nothing at school other than SEL (which is admittedly excellent), but they don't regard their school peers as friends (just convenient playmates), and we're being run ragged by the enrichment schedule. Since school is basically providing neither academics nor beneficial socialization, we feel like surely there must be a better alternative.

I have no doubt that grade-level academics could be trivially covered in an hour of homeschooling in the morning (plus child is doing multiple AoPS classes, several grades ahead; note that this was the AoPS decision on placement, not us pushing). Then many of the enrichments could be done in a homeschooling coop or day classes. (For the cost of private school, we could probably hire a driver to take the child from class to class.) My child prefers children who are about three years older; they like their peers in their mixed-age enrichments or in above-grade-level enrichments, but the enrichments don't have enough socialization time to really get to know the other kids well.

We'd then return our child to traditional school at middle school, or maybe high school, when differentiation of academics is a real possibility. So we'd homeschool for only a few years.

Has anyone tried this approach? [/quote]

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