[MikelTackNailer]

Outstanding, Arthurus. As a pneumonia plagued foster child in the 1960s they set up a basement room for me next to shelves containing Encyclopedia Britannica and Time-Life's Classic Literature Collection. And a record player next to a vast array of popular music from Sinatra to the Stones. When I got healthy enough to get back to real school the admin were befuddled as what to do with a kid testing three grades ahead of his age.

So yes - home schooling is the right thing no matter how inconvenient that is for the parents.

[arthurus]

Back when CDs were the New Thing I got a deal in my mailbox for a set of 60 classical music CDs and a CD player. I sent for it and used it as a Christmas gift for my then 9 year old daughter. She has her favorites, Mahler and Chopin, even now and there is classical music on at her home a lot. All three boys love it. That was her intro to music. My then 5 y.o. son was making noises on an old army bugle. He grew up playing trumpet and English horn.