[arthurus]

I kind of pioneered Saxon long ago around here. I was interested by the description of Algebra 1/2 in a Conservative Book Club brochure and ordered it. I was fascinated that one could teach oneself easily from that book without any teacher. I found and ordered the other high school books as they came out. My wife, a public school teacher, and I hustled Saxon to the local parochial schools and even a couple of the public schools adopted it. The teachers raved for a year then other teachers started to complain and the union set its face against Saxon because it denigrated by implication the necessity of a teacher. Now the local parochial and public schools all teach from more "modern" texts and math performance is way down.

[Chickensoup]

Saxon 5/4 homeschool packet is the greatest math tool ever.