Peace In Our Time!

[Carrie]

Just for the record, I know many single parents (both moms and dads) who work *and* homeschool their multiple children in different grade levels.
It can be done. It's hard as hell, but it can be done.

And the parents shouldn't be a supplement to a teacher's education, the teacher should be a supplement to the education the child is already receiving at home. (If teachers/schools are involved at all.)

A parent teaches their child to walk, talk (an impossible feat in itself, especially in this country with its never-ending blend of different languages that have worked their way into what used to be called "English"), so many things... and then thinks that for some crazy reason they're not qualified enough to keep teaching that child just because s/he turns 5.

You know your child better than any teacher ever could. You know his learning styles, how fast/slow he gets something, how to present it so that it makes perfect sense to him, how to work through things like his "growth spurts" and temper tantrums...
All kids are different. Public school is standardized. One teacher trying to apply a generic, standardized method of teaching to 30 kids with completely different learning styles/methods and expecting them to all react the same way is just... preposterous.

Bah... this is like a broken record.