My kids resent it at times, but this is why I do all kinds of additional work with them beyond what they’re learning in school. I focus on English and writing skills. I give them weekly spelling tests that I come up with myself and make them learn the definitions. I think of topics and make up my own projects and assignments for them to do and then we have a discussion about them. They at times just hate how I am because I’ve read with them almost every day since they were 5 but they get good grades and can speak much better than their peers. The oldest has been a straight A honor student for years and in the AP track at his high school.
We’ve told them since they were young that being born white males, they will have to study harder and work harder and still be discriminated against so they better make plans based on how the world is rather than how they would like it to be.
Do you mind if I ask, did you ever consider skipping the government school and homeschooling? It sounds like you do a lot of what homeschooler parents do, but have your kids at the local school during the day which seems like a waste of time to me.
My kids resent it at times, but this is why I do all kinds of additional work with them beyond what they’re learning in school. I focus on English and writing skills. I give them weekly spelling tests that I come up with myself and make them learn the definitions. I think of topics and make up my own projects and assignments for them to do and then we have a discussion about them. They at times just hate how I am because I’ve read with them almost every day since they were 5 but they get good grades and can speak much better than their peers. The oldest has been a straight A honor student for years and in the AP track at his high school.
LaurenD,
What you are doing, and have done, is homeschooling! ( AKA: "afterschooling")
What you just described is what I did as a homeschooling mom. But....When your kids do well in school and raise the overall standardized test scores who takes the credit for the "blue ribbon" school? The **teachers** of course! Who do the teachers blame when parents don't do tons of afterschooling? The parents!
Go figure! ( sarc)
**ALL** academically successful children are homeschooled ( afterschooled).
I have never met a single exception. When I quiz the parents about their academically achieving children, in every case, the parents tell me what you just wrote above. This is even true for the academically successful immigrant child. These immigrant parents have relatives and friends that tutor and support their kids at **home**!
By the way, I do know adults who have not been stellar students, or whose parents were not supportive, go on later as adults to succeed academically. ( I am one.) But...I have never met an academically successful child ( who was institutionalized for their education) whose parent was not doing everything I did as a homeschooling mom.