[JenB]

Right, that sounds more like the co-op... ours had classes for little kids, since the moms were all teaching, and were a good way to get in the weak subjects.

From one point of view, your wife almost certainly has the kids with the weakest writing skills. Because their mothers recognize that, they send the kids to your wife. So she's probably dealing with the worst homeschooled kids, not the best. Just like the teacher who's teaching, say, Algebra probably doesn't have any of the brilliant math students.

I'd applaud the parents for seeing that their kids get this gap fixed if you hadn't said the parents are part of the problem.

[Corin Stormhands]

Well I do think these parents are making the right choices. And (darned lack of editing features) I still don't mean to imply that all of the parents are problematic. They're not.

I just think that, in the problem cases, that perhaps the parents should have sent them off earlier.

For example, with Luke, we've talked about me doing the elementary math. I can do that. But once we get past a certain level ~ definitely pre-Algebra ~ we'll have to get someone else involved.