What kind of homeschool programs, curricula, styles do you use?

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7. Kindergarteners shouldn't be required to read!

Idiot. Of course he's a complete and total idiot about everything.

While SOME kids are ready for reading - or already reading - eye development is such that most children aren't READY to read physically. If you push them, you create a readying problem where none would have existed if you had left them alone.

That's why you see unschoolers with 8 year olds who don't read yet. But one day, they want to read. They learn in a heartbeat and within a very short time catch up and usually surpass those kids in the public classroom. (But most people don't understand that. They only see an 8 yo hs'er who "can't read" and make a value judgement.) Same with math. They learn REAL WORLD MATH, but when they hit around High school age and start looking around and thinking about college, it's Hey - I need to know that. So they get a book - and maybe a tutor - and bam, they've learned it in record time and beyond. (Of course this is only true of unschoolers in a learning rich environment as unstructured as it may seem to some.)