[quote=Blogstar]What happened to the story about your son and how you and your wife saved him from the public school and some dreadful hateful teacher, a teacher who represent the norm for teachers?[/quote]

what really goes on in an elementary school all day/ really. first and foremost, order. minimal interaction. silence. filling in “workheets”, meaningless repetition of tasks that is extraordinarily challenging for some, extraordinarily meaningless for others. more silence. ltos of “dead time” waiting. a teacher speaks a little about an area she knowws little about. very very very little actual learning for many years. they send home lots of homework and send nasty notes when its not completed because no learning actually happened in school, so they need someone to blame.

school does teach you things, in the sense that participating in that structure prepares you for alife of being quiet, sitting an dnot moving, learning to be isolated, and to keep your mouth shut no matter how ridiculous the thing is thats going on in work. really, that prepared me ina very real sense for hte day to day routine of my life.

theres gotta be a better way.

if families could afford to, im confident many many more fo them would vote with their feet and homeschool.