As a parent that just went through this let me tell you how it went for us. We first put our kid in k12 virtual charter for a couple years. As I got increasingly involved in helping our kid with work, I realized that history was mostly bullshit (example, in public school only 2 towers fell on 911)
Science was climate change environmentalist bs and not practical experimentation.
English was having them read witchcraft like books. This doesn't actually bother me because I like fantasy myself, but with the schools track record, I find myself distrusting their motives.
Anyway, we looked up the homeschool laws here (SC). They are awesome here. We went with option 3. Pull her entirely out, keep records, and teach her myself.
I have to bring her to work, but I've developed a curriculum that is heavy on reading comprehension now. I'm lucky that I own my own business and only have one partner, so this isn't a big issue for me. My wife doesn't have the same flexibility so I volunteered to handle it.
Art and music are each an hour as well. Logic and rhetoric happens as we talk and I teach her to debate and defend her ideas after researching and developing them. It has been a lot of work, but my kid has leaped forward and loves the seeming lack of structure. She's actually doing 4 times the work and thinks she's getting off lite. I will never go back unless it's because she wants to go to some private school or something.
The fake math pissed me off but when I saw what they thought passed for hsitory I went through the fucking roof. Our youngest have NEVER been to public school.
Everybody who meets them always comments how smart and polite they are.
As a parent that just went through this let me tell you how it went for us. We first put our kid in k12 virtual charter for a couple years. As I got increasingly involved in helping our kid with work, I realized that history was mostly bullshit (example, in public school only 2 towers fell on 911) Science was climate change environmentalist bs and not practical experimentation. English was having them read witchcraft like books. This doesn't actually bother me because I like fantasy myself, but with the schools track record, I find myself distrusting their motives.
Anyway, we looked up the homeschool laws here (SC). They are awesome here. We went with option 3. Pull her entirely out, keep records, and teach her myself.
I have to bring her to work, but I've developed a curriculum that is heavy on reading comprehension now. I'm lucky that I own my own business and only have one partner, so this isn't a big issue for me. My wife doesn't have the same flexibility so I volunteered to handle it.
Art and music are each an hour as well. Logic and rhetoric happens as we talk and I teach her to debate and defend her ideas after researching and developing them. It has been a lot of work, but my kid has leaped forward and loves the seeming lack of structure. She's actually doing 4 times the work and thinks she's getting off lite. I will never go back unless it's because she wants to go to some private school or something.
The fake math pissed me off but when I saw what they thought passed for hsitory I went through the fucking roof. Our youngest have NEVER been to public school.
Everybody who meets them always comments how smart and polite they are.
Yeah, I went to private school but chose not to go into debt for college and started a few companies instead. Nowadays I am so happy with my choice.
Having a classical education really puts public school into perspective. It sucks ass. Working as intended. Not a bug, but a feature for Commies.