| Nope, homeschooled 100%. I did go to community college when I was 13, I guess.
Lots of books (4000 in our home library), Khan Academy, and no personal electronics for the kids. >But how on earth were you supervised. I guess one parent must have been stay-at-home. Mom still is, and she's good at it. The real answer is that it's not any more effort past 6 or so kids. I've been taking care of kids my entire life, essentially, and it really does become self-sustaining. Turns out tweens and young teens are great at taking care of babies. There's a picture somewhere of 10-year-old me wearing my new baby sister in a carrier. Dad's a principal engineer, he's been remote for a long time, we saw him plenty. (he's also somewhat active here, Hi Dad!) As long as you don't spend money on things like TV, and buy in bulk to cook at home, it's really not too expensive. We'd spend about $1300 a month in groceries. > I think if you have 10 kids, then someone checking in to make sure that the kids are being fed, supervised, educated becomes a thing that probably needs to happen. Where's the threshold for the state examining their anuses because obviously something must be wrong here? We did have CPS called a couple times, once because I was doing my college coursework at 14 sitting on the patio roof. I hopped down, we sat around and listened to the spiel, then I politely asked them if they could fuck off because my Sociology 204 class was about to happen. We also scored at the top of our (good) school district in standardized testing. Like, all of us were the top score in our grade. |