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by cvccvroomvroom 954 days ago
Change schools or move somewhere with better schools.

Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of good schools.

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The community I live in has a decent number of homeschooling families. The kids socialize just fine with each other, and also with the regular school kids in the afternoons.

In fact, I'd venture that the homeschooled kids are better at socialization, because they're often out doing things and meeting new people. They're certainly far better at interacting with adults. The public school kids who live right on my block are rarely ever seen outside the house after their bus arrives home.

The socialization thing is one of those things everyone believes because at one time, in one circumstance, it was true, and that became the stereotype. It is very much not automatically the way it always works out though.

Admittedly, my experience is entirely US based. Your mention of "division of labor and specialization of trade" makes me think perhaps you're not from the US, so perhaps schools are much better and different where you are, in which case the situation could indeed be quite different. But please be aware that it's not like that everywhere. :-)

But, where do you find good schools? Teachers seem to spend 90% of their time with the ESL students and the ones with behavioral problems. My daughter is two grade levels above and is completely bored. What to do?
In my case, the public school let me skip second grade.

I can state with conviction that this is not a good thing to do to a kid.

Maybe a few classes ahead of grade, but not all of them.