go for the HomeSchooling and best of luck...What we have found is that my children do not do well with the local school district’s math program called “Everyday Math”. It is an attempt to teach multiple techniques of multiplication and division and do not work on the basic math drills.
Using tutors to drill our children has shown the most progress over the last two years. This is one of the primary reasons I do not want to return them to public school ... I know the math program and I know the damage it will do to their math ability.
Understand that I was a student math tutor in college so I’m very pro tutor.
go for the HomeSchooling and best of luck...Maybe you’ve seen this — an indictment of the stuff taught in “Everyday Mathematics”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
If you use the traditional home school curriculum as designed you might be merely repeating a mold that your children are not designed to fit. You may need to apply it differently.
If there are some learning disabilities you might want to consider that some abilities will improve as the brain matures and that the time schedule of traditional learning benchmarks might be adjusted for your children's struggles. If you have control over their education you would not have to follow the traditional benchmarks that actually may not be appropriate for your children.
For example, lets assume that math is right now difficult and that it is not uncommon for math abilities to grow as the brain matures. (I don't know if that is true but would expect it to be). Then assume that your children are stronger at language and or reading. Assuming this scenario, you could design a schedule that emphasis's their stronger abilities while putting off those more difficult areas to a later time when they have better capacity. This would allow the child to be successful in areas that they are stronger in, give you and your children a better start with lower frustration and give your children a better matching of learning to ability.
It is strategies and questions like the above scenario that I would want to discuss with professionals who have experience with the disabilities your children have. The mold they are being forced into may be the problem more than the method of delivery.