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by Foobar8568 1645 days ago
I took my daughter out of her school two weeks ago for her own safety (sexual harassment with school/direction turning a blind eye), so while I was following a bit how a kid is educated in today world, the last 2 weeks were fairly interesting and just motivated me even more to home-school her (cannot afford what seems to be good private schools here), and I don't see the point to pay 3k a year (Hattemer distance learning and similar) for the same resources that I already have.

So I can drop more stuff, it's just what I had on hand :P

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(i'm assuming you're French):

I've worked with home-schooled kids ("good" ones, with parent invested in their education). I don't know if the program still exist, but we had satisfied parents and good results, and i think now the experiences we made are available with manuals for the parents: https://www.lespetitsdebrouillards.org. (i was in Loire-atlantique at the time)(i just looked at it and it seems less science-focused than it was).

At the time we only heard issue with science programs (bio, PC), and maybe it was a bias as "les petits debrouillards" are a club focused on science experiments, but we've heard that the CNED program on those subjects were not engaging enough for the children (again, could be a sample bias). I guess now it might be easier to find engaging resources on those subjects, but still, don't hesitate to take a look at this club.

Also, if your daughter have issues with mathematics, wolfram Alpha is an amazing support to teach her, my sister did not do any kind of math since 2016, and was quite bad at it in school, i taught her enough in less than two weekends for her to validate her first semester of college (Basics + Complex numbers the first weekend, derivation, integration and function analysis the second one).

Good luck, school is supposed to support parents, but if you can't trust them with your child, it is worse than useless.

Thank you for the information, I will check back Wolfram Alpha, otherwise our case is a bit special as school was a way to slow down her learning speed (otherwise 7, not 11...insane situation, kid brains are rotten in some areas )