-—I have/had my kids practicing reading and math nightly since preschool-—
You might as well homeschool. It only takes about three hours per day.
My daughter works part-time at a supermarket. A customer found out that she’s been homeschooled.
“That’s great! I’m sick of the schools. My kids don’t learn anything. I have to spend 2-3 hours a night teaching them. How do your parents do it?!”
“I do it pretty much on my own.”
“That’s amazing!”
It really isn’t. Just ask a homeschooling family.
We can’t imagine anything different.
Homeschooling is definitely the way to go if you want to optimize self-directed learning and develop critical thinking skills.
If I was still living in some of the other places we have lived we probably would be homeschooling them.
My daughter in particular is very social she really thrives on the interaction with the other kids so for now at least the Montana public schools are best for her.