JC> SB> I don't know about high school yet.  I still haven't
  > SB> done that. Rob enters nineth grade in September.
JC> Don't use any of the history textbooks surveyed by James Loewen in "Lies 
My
  > Teacher Told Me". 
Not a chance!  Grin!
JC> My _hunch_ is that the child does better because of the individual
  > attention provided by homeschooling. Public education might be better,
  > too, if the classroom size was reduced to one or two. But it's pretty
  > tough to "tailor" a classroom of twenty children and meet all their 
eds.
I think that's true.  Although some homeschool families have classes of
seven or eight, each kid at a different level.  And the kids still do
better than they do in the classroom.
JC> I remember one of my boys and the fourth grade. The school said he was a
  > "poor learner". That wasn't true at all. It was simply the fact that the
  > teacher (and the rest of the class) couldn't keep up with _him_.  To
  > "solve" their "problem" the school decided that we lived on the "wrong
  > side of the street" and therefore my son _then_ had to go to a 
different_
  > school. He did better there. The teacher wasn't as "slow". 
Grin!  It's amazing how much difference a change in teachers can
sometimes make.
               Sondra
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