DR> Yesterday in the mail came this year's classroom assignments. As most
 DR> of you know, I'd LIKE to homeschool but we're not currently in the
 DR> financial position to allow me to quit my morning job. So we're aiming
 DR> for pulling them out sometime between conference time (mid-Nov) and
 DR> Christmas vacation. 
 DR> I was not overly pleased with the classroom assignments. I had made
 DR> requests for particular teachers and only one out of two was honored.
 DR> My 4th grader will get the same teacher that my last year 4th grader
 DR> had. It's a male teacher and I know how he operates, agree with his
 DR> homework policy (only what they don't finish in class, and special
 DR> projects), and generally think Kristin would do well for him. This was
 DR> the one request that they honored. 
 DR> For the 5th grader, tho, I did not get the teacher I requested. I Know
 DR> that particular teacher, had observed her in action and felt that my
 DR> daughter would do well under her. They did give me my 2nd choice tho
 DR> (that I had not voiced to them, so it was accidental). It's a teacher
 DR> moving up from 4th grade to 5th grade this year, a firm
 DR> disciplinarian, and the GATE (gifted/talented) teacher. Jennifer is
 DR> not labeled GATE, but as her 3rd grade teacher told me, she should
 DR> have been. (Jennifer came within 2 points of making GATE, but Poway
 DR> district puts everything on test scores, and nothing on teacher
 DR> recommendation.) Being with the GATE kids will give her the
 DR> opportunity for challenge, anyway, so I've decided that I'm not going
 DR> to raise cain (especially since I hope to be yanking them out mid-year
 DR> anyway). 
 One question:  If you got the teachers you wanted (well, sorta...),
 then why homeschool?  Why yank them out -at all- after they've made friends
 and adjusted to a school-day schedule?  Couldn't you enhance what they've
 learned at school, at home and start thaem with home-schooling during
 the next year?  Give it a definite cut-off point, instead of in the middle?
 It'll help things flow easier.  Well, that's how I feel about it
 anway...  ;)  BTW, I've always found taht the more children I have, the
 less of a chance I have of getting a school system to cooperate with me.
                                                                     
... Teacher, can I go home? My brain is full.
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