Wife is part time. Two eldest teach themselves for the most part and the youngest does his school on her days off in like 2-3 hours. The older they get the more like university it is. They still have to take the states’ standardized tests.
They’re taught classically mostly. English and Arithmetic are based on how they learn so each child typically takes different courses to suit their learning style. My youngest is way ahead in math but at grade level for reading and writing. He is lazy in history but really likes science. Middle is okay in most subjects but wants to be a terrier and horse vet which a lot of the grade school classes don’t have much overlap for. Eldest is extremely good in physical sciences, is in a homeschool program for aerospace and is already on the path to become an aviation mechanic (school is picked out, etc).
His current teacher is an industry expert with his airframe and powerhouse certs who also used to own his own custom bike building business. He came up with the mixed wheel mountain bike standard. It may as well be college level. He is teaching because he too thinks our kids deserve better and that his generation and the boomers have failed in their responsibility to teach.
All of my kids are extremely social. I haven’t found the media’s stereotypical anti-social homeschooler to be a thing and I’ve met a lot of homeschoolers. The main reason parents are pulling their kids from public school seems to be lack of trust in the US public education system as it currently is. Even the public lambasts it but still seems to think homeschooling is only for the religious nuts. That’s really a media steering narrative honestly. My wife and I have been asked more questions about how we homeschool than ever before simply because people don’t like how the public school system is undeserving their own children.
It’s funny, if you look at the rich, their kids typically don’t go into the public school system. But apparently it’s crazy for Joe public to put their kids in a system that is a lot more flexible per child and teaches critical thinking skills by nature. The public system isn’t set up for that.
Wife is part time. Two eldest teach themselves for the most part and the youngest does his school on her days off in like 2-3 hours. The older they get the more like university it is. They still have to take the states’ standardized tests.
They’re taught classically mostly. English and Arithmetic are based on how they learn so each child typically takes different courses to suit their learning style. My youngest is way ahead in math but at grade level for reading and writing. He is lazy in history but really likes science. Middle is okay in most subjects but wants to be a terrier and horse vet which a lot of the grade school classes don’t have much overlap for. Eldest is extremely good in physical sciences, is in a homeschool program for aerospace and is already on the path to become an aviation mechanic (school is picked out, etc).
His current teacher is an industry expert with his airframe and powerhouse certs who also used to own his own custom bike building business. He came up with the mixed wheel mountain bike standard. It may as well be college level. He is teaching because he too thinks our kids deserve better and that his generation and the boomers have failed in their responsibility to teach.
All of my kids are extremely social. I haven’t found the media’s stereotypical anti-social homeschooler to be a thing and I’ve met a lot of homeschoolers. The main reason parents are pulling their kids from public school seems to be lack of trust in the US public education system as it currently is. Even the public lambasts it but still seems to think homeschooling is only for the religious nuts. That’s really a media steering narrative honestly. My wife and I have been asked more questions about how we homeschool than ever before simply because people don’t like how the public school system is undeserving their own children.
It’s funny, if you look at the rich, their kids typically don’t go into the public school system. But apparently it’s crazy for Joe public to put their kids in a system that is a lot more flexible per child and teaches critical thinking skills by nature. The public system isn’t set up for that.