Posted on 05/23/2025 11:20:14 AM PDT by DFG
Great post.
Allowing kids to excel is exactly what home schooling parents should be doing—and exactly what the public schools fail to do.
The thing is, not only can they excel at what they love, it allows you to spend the time and effort to help in areas where they are struggling.
My youngest struggled with math for a while. She wanted to go to the local public school which was very small and far more like a private school that most. (Small town, everyone knows everyone else. Nobody gets away with anything.) So we spent one more year and worked on her math skills.
She graduated college with a math minor and LOVE partial differential equations. She’s fantastic at math.
She later said she should have just gone with a math major.
Matter of fact, I always thought I was bad in math until I started homeschooling. Then using Saxon Math and essentially going through 8th grade 3 more times (once for me, and once for each of the kids), I found out I was actually GOOD at math.
I learned more Math and English homeschooling my kids than I ever learned in my entire public school incarceration.
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