They sent my kid home from school with these today ?
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And even the good teachers have their hands tied. Both of my sisters are teachers and they have almost zero say so in what gets taught. They have a team leader that creates a lesson plan for each subject and they have to follow that. And those lesson plans are based around the curriculum chosen by the school board. Your kid can have a great individual teacher, but that's not who decides what is actually being taught to them.
Plus Common Core is horrific. They are purposely dumbing kids down. The Mastery Method is the way the majority of people learn. The Spiral Method is awful and leaves HUGE gaps in a child's education. My 8th grade nephew doesn't know his multiplication tables. They spent 2 or 3 weeks learning multiplication and moved on to division. It's crazy! He is smart as a whip, but has been taught crap, and yet still has hours of homework at night. My sister spends more time helping her 3 kids with their homework than the homeschool moms I know spend doing ALL their kids' schooling.
So, so true. I'm actually backtracking with his math, b/c he needs it the most, but it's nice to be able to work through the lessons with him. He too, would have lots of homework, but to me, it was simply busy work. It's very frustrating when they're doing all that work, but really not learning anything from it.
Yup work smarter, not harder. My husband was homeschooled all the way up. He went on to college and grad school and has an MBA. He's so smart, but more than that, his mom gave him a love of learning and that has been key.
I've talked to her a lot about how she did it. She said when her kids were little (early elementary) she only worked with them for a couple of hours a day. She focused on reading, writing, and arithmetic. The basics. Her philosophy was to teach them to read. Period. That was the priority because she knew that once they were good readers, they could learn ANYTHING they wanted to for the rest of their lives. So that was her focus. My husband really struggled. He has ADHD and some other learning issues, but she worked one on one with him until finally it all clicked when he was in middle school. He now reads SO FAST. It's crazy. I am convinced he would have floundered in public school because you can't get that kind of one on one focused teaching.
By high school, he said school took about 4 hours a day. They would wake up and have breakfast and a family Bible study as they ate. They would have 30 minutes to do their assigned chores for the morning, and then they would sit down to start school around 9. They had a couple of short recesses during the morning to give them breaks. They would have lunch, and he said most days he was done by 1ish. Then they had the rest of the day to do whatever they wanted. I am so jealous because my school experience was filled with stress and anxiety and fear of failure. His mom focused on making sure they learned the material. Grades didn't matter to her, only mastery of the material. So even through college, he didn't focus on grades only on learning the information. It's completely backwards from what I was taught.
I love that story! Gives me hope as a parent new to homeschooling. God bless your mother in law. I too, wish I was able to have avoided the public school system knowing now what I didn't then.
You've got this! She was a homeschooling pioneer. She started homeschooling in the mid-80's with almost no resources and only knowing a few other homeschool families. There was no internet or much of anything, but they wanted to put my husband in special ed because of his learning issues. She knew that was insane, so she made the decision to teach him herself. I am so glad she did because it completely changed his life. I love my mother-in-law so much.
Today, there are TONS of resources for you. Many are free or very inexpensive. Just remember to have fun! Make learning a joyful time and don't stress too much about getting "behind." Go at their pace and enjoy the journey. If you can teach your kid(s) to love reading and learning then you have done your job because they will never stop! <3