Reply #37: I stand corrected. [View All]

[SheilaT]

I gave serious thought to home schooling myself, but realized I am temperamentally unsuited to it. I know several people who've home schooled. The ones I know did it for a couple of years when it made sense to pull their kid out of conventional schools for a couple of years (some public, some private).

There are other places I see the "all we need is a Bible" sentiment. Perhaps those people aren't home schooling. It does seem as though some of them are challenging assigned books, which is a perennial problem in this country.

I often seen the drawbacks of conventional schools. I put my two boys into lots of enrichment things after school and in summers. What I personally dislike about regular schools is the rigidity, the "one size fits all", the assumption that all kids need to go through the curriculum lockstep. My oldest had a lot of trouble learning to read, and didn't master reading until well into second grade. Meanwhile he was making great strides in arithmetic, except that he couldn't advance ahead of the class in math. Sigh.

As someone who chose to put my two into private school, I'm a huge supporter of public schools, and feel that I'm probably not paying enough in taxes to support them properly.

Thank you for the feedback.