I am a public school teacher and I am going to homeschool my son. He is two, so of course we have started with the basics. It is disturbing to know how many parents don’t teach their children ABC’s and 123’s. That is what Dora and free preschool is for, I’m told. My school system uses SFA reading and math, which focuses on group dynamics and partnerships. Bull crap. My juniors and seniors can barely read or write. SFA does have a list of congratulation methods though. All of my students know how to do the around the world clap when they almost get something correct!
You can start to “homeschool” almost immediately,
you just take responsibility for educating your child.
You start with basics and advance them as they are ready.
My 3 yr old is learning phonics and has started to read.
Of course she already knows all the colors, shapes, numbers to 100, ABC’s, etc.
It’s really quite rewarding to teach them yourself.
I have had discusions with teachers who have marked math questions wrong that had the correct answer. The standard response I get is, "I didn't understand how they arrived at the answer". To which I have told them that if the answer is correct what does it matter if "you" don't understand how it was arrived at. I have also suggested to them that if they have questions they can ask my children, who are 11 and 13, to explain it to them. The look on their face is priceless....
BTW all work is shown and it does not take a rocket scientist to follow the progression to the answer, and my children are being asked by the other kids in class to show them how to do it their way.
If you homeschool it presumptively won't be a problem, but there's literature suggesting that less mature boys are being placed above their heads in school. And by the time anyone really knows what's happening the boy has decided that school is mostly for girls (who're more mature at earlier ages) - and it is close to impossible ever to get that boy back on track to learn in school.The moral is that you must not allow invidious comparisons between an immature boy and nominally equivalent, but actually significantly more mature, girls. And to avoid that you have to make sure not to place the immature boy - and in a given classroom half of the children are between half a year and 364 day younger than the other half - in a "wonderful" class which sounds great for its advanced curriculum. A boy my son's age, but young in grade, had trouble in first grade. His parents decided to bite the bullet and keep him back a year. From then on, not a care in the world as far as school was concerned. He was a star athlete in school, too. Which wouldn't have happened if he graduated a year earlier. His parents were thrilled with the effect of their decision.All just goes to show how things can turn on arbitrary distinctions . . .