[Kaslin]

I am talking of my personal experience. I wished when my children grew up I could have sometimes gone to classes with them so I could have learned the different systems than I learned when I was educated in Germany. I could have taught the teachers to, that from the third grade on students should be taught only to use ink pens

[wintertime]

As a child did you use ink pens for arithmetic, too?

This is very interesting.

[Yosemitest]

I "Gad'gee'ate-ted" in 74 out of high school, from a small country school, and they focused on the 3 "R's".
It's easy to get a good curriculum for Home Schooling and David Barton is where to start !