I think the homeschooling part of it works because she is allowed to wiggle or fidget if she needs...and she knows that I repect her and she gets to make some choices. I would like her to have at least some of this in the classroom. I think it would go better for her and then the teacher could get the results she wants.

And I do really think that there is just not room for quirkiness in either of the school situations we have been in. There's a lot of worry about test scores and keeping schools open and jobs, etc...I think this has put us in an educational system that is particularly oppressive for these kinds of kids...

I get excited when the library lets me know my books are ready for pickup...