[lacrew]

“Take a look at a homeschool curriculum, some time.”

I guess this is where it breaks down for me...I would feel compelled to use many of the same books used in the local schools - just so my kids could speak the same ‘language’ as the other kids and professors in college. Using a homeschool curriculum might prepare them well for life...but not for college. Sad but true.

And to your original point - the difference in today’s math class goes alot deeper than over-use of word problems (or the interjection of social issues in the word problem). Its hard to explain, but its a completely different language.

I would suggest the reverse - take a gander at a middle school math curriculum, some time. I think you will be surprised at how few of the terms have any familiarity to you.

[FamiliarFace]

Using a homeschool curriculum might prepare them well for life...but not for college.

Obviously, this is your choice, but isn't training for life more important than getting along with others in college? It's all been dumbed down. How else do colleges get away with degrees in Gender Studies and Minority Studies?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Using a homeschool curriculum might prepare them well for life...but not for college.

I'm interested in the former, and not the latter. I told our kids they have permission to take F's in college, rather than toe any PC line.

Better to get a good grade in life than in college.

[stayathomemom]

I think I know what you mean. When my youngest daughter was still in high school, I had a talk with a friend of ours from church. He has a masters in Classical Studies from U of M, helped run his family's business, is an accredited teacher, substitute teaches at our church's day school and also teaches at another private elementary school in the area. He has been tutoring for years. He told me he got a call to help someone who needed tutoring with the AlgGeoStat program our local public high school was using at the time. He said he tried to help, but had a hard time trying to figure out what was going on in the lessons.