[wintertime]

parental tracking of assignments...). Tonto

Tonto,

What this "tracking of assignments" is REALLY homeschooling. It is the parents who are really teaching the kids.

That is why I say that ALL academically successful children are homeschooled. It does not matter if they attend school or not. The only thing that the school is doing is sending home a free curriculum for the parents to supervise.

However,,,,While the parents of schooled children are doing the real teaching, the school is wasting enormous amounts of time that should be spent in active play.

[metmom]

That occurred to us, also. The amount of time we spend on school each day is only slightly more than what we would spend on doing homework and then the kids are not trapped in school all day, to boot. I never could figure our what's going on in school all day that would require the teachers to sent home all that homework to do instead of being able to complete it in class. The lessons do not take that much time to teach; it's the paperwork that takes the time. Out of a 45 minute class, it does not take 45 minutes to teach the subject material.