[widowithfoursons]

You are right! Monitoring what the kids are doing at school is more rigorous than homeschool. They send homework that the child hasn't been taught, and so the parent must figure out the convoluted material, and then teach it. The idea that dyslexia is fomented by "whole language" is so true. My 5th grader is STILL affected by his time there. Thank God for this silent reveolution. (Not so silent, by the way).

[ladylib]

I've heard of schools sending homework that hasn't been introduced in school. Why do parents put up with that? Perhaps parents could inform the school that if the teacher can't be bothered to teach new material and the parents are expected to, the parents might as well pull their kids out and homeschool them. It would save the taxpayers big bucks too.