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In reply to the discussion: Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]spinbaby
(15,090 posts)13. When it works well, it works very well
I home schooled my oldest for first and second grade because he was extremely hyperactive. The school gave me the choice of medicating him more than he was already medicated or putting him in special ed. Things did not go well in kindergarten and I think they were quite relieved that I decided to home school. When he went back to third grade he was performing at a much higher level than his peers and was up to high-school algebra in math. He eventually graduated from college with a computer engineering degree.
The difference here is that I am myself highly educated and was willing to put some time and energy into teaching my child. I also used the same materials as the school--they were more than willing to share.
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Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
OP
My problem is my client is being punished for homeschooling (to the best of her ability).
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2012
#22
This isn't so much a home schooling issue as it is a religious fanaticism issue.
teewrex
Mar 2012
#8
I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2012
#12