home schooling, what do you think?
I'm thinking about home schooling. I've always wanted to spare my children middle school, but i've also read that formal schooling before ages 8-10 simpply frustrates and burns out children's learning processes. So maybe until high school, perhaps with a year or two enrolled before middle? would it be worth switching around? maybe see what they'd
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I was home schooled in 3rd grade. My Mom sort of insisted after I had one of the worst 2nd grade teachers imaginable. Mrs. Brandenburg was truly one of the most awful humans I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with.
My 3rd grade year was interesting... It probably socially retarded me until about the middle of high school, but I turned out "ok" so I won't count that as a negative. I know for a fact that it utterly destroyed my already limited abilities in science and math. I spent that entire year reading and taking a drawing class. Almost no time on Math. Once I was back in public school it was pretty obvious I was no longer Honors math material, but I still got pushed along until high school when I decided I wanted to drop down to Merit level, for my own sanity.
Do they still call them Honors and Merit levels?
So, if you're going to home school, at least force a more well rounded education than my Mom did.
Public High School is important for all the reasons you listed. Public Middle School is probably a good introduction to the horrors of High School. Elementary school I think could be safely avoided. None of the social structures from those years carry over to Middle School anyway, so I don't think the loss (assuming the child is well socialized through other means) would be greatly felt. And it wouldn't really be possible to provide a worse education than US Public Elementary Schools...so there's that.
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