Homeschooling

why do i don’t want to know my grades anymore

One month ago I came back home from my Maths exam 100% angry.

This article is good and the commenter that also mentioned gender was right on the money as well. There has been an increase in homeschooling in the black community because the children that are creative or may need a little more time are placed in special education or labeled problem child. The schools are stopping anything creative and turning…

Rock bottom

When we finally pulled Peanut out of public school at the end of Grade 2, I thought we’d reached rock bottom.

The Homeschooling Reading List (Year 1)

• Fujikawa, Gyo: A Child’s Book of Poems (Poetry)

Subversion

“The Diamond Age” by Neil Stephenson deals pretty heavily with this question, with my interpretation of the underlying theme being roughly: 
If children of comfortable, wealthy citizens are to make anything honest, anything valuable of themselves, the ingredient they have to be taught is subversion — a…

Today, I was told by a young man that gender inequality doesn’t exist.

Thanks for sharing more details about your family’s experience. You have clearly put a lot of effort into your approach. I wonder what it would look like to loop some of the subjects/topics together under themes. Like, if he loves blacksmithing (or masonry in general), he designs an investigation that answers questions he has about blacksmithing:

Acceptable Adult Behavior

My oldest has been spending more time with me this past week than she has in a while, quite literally coming with…

Homeschooling Bee: What I’ve Learned So Far

I took Bee out of school on Wednesday, December 14th. I started homeschooling her…

This is on our homeschool reading list.