[laurav]

Thanks!

[HairOfTheDog]

Gotta love people with an axe to grind....

a musical prodigy forced to play in an elementary school orchestra.

FORCED? By who? - Orchestra is completely optional. If a child is forced to play in orchestra, it is by his parents, not the school. And a talented child participating in orchestra with other kids his age is considered oppressed now?

I applaud people who have the time, talent and energy to home school. But not all schools are the evil boogey man, and you have so much bias and no apparent call for proofs in the question. The product of this research of yours is going to be worthless, you realize that?

At least try to hide your agenda! Just a recommendation.

[T. P. Pole]

My wife volunteered at my son's school two years back (second grade). She noticed that if she got there early, that our son was sitting at his desk with his head down.

We also noticed that he was bringing home hundreds of pages of doodled paper. When we asked about it, it turns out that that was math, and the teacher booked an hour for the lesson each day. He "got it" and when the ten minutes it took him to finish the assignment were over, he was told to doodle or nap while the others caught up.

We have homeschooled since.

[Corin Stormhands]

I'm trying to compile a list of "school horror stories,"

Why?

[dd5339]

Tx,

I'm guessing that the homeschool crowd might have a few stories to tell!

Semper Fi

[D.P.Roberts]

Not so much a horror story as a silly one: homeschooled girl types 90+ wpm, has to take a year-long keyboarding
class upon transfering to public school.

D.P.Roberts

[weikel]

My Middle School pre 8th grade felt like Stalin's Russia I don't remember a lot of the details I blocked most of it out. I remember I had a higher IQ before I went there and the pointless busywork crowded out all the independent reading I did before it.