acs: Your post didn't offend. I do, however, get annoyed/offended/angry when someone (e.g. my mother, a former teacher acquaintance, etc.) say that we "owe it to the schools" to keep DS6 in public school.
Wha-huh? Um, no. The schools owe it to *us* to return to us the sunny, happy boy we sent to them, only with more knowledge in his little head. (They failed on both accounts!) *We* do not owe the schools anything!
I was always very pro-public schools...until they let DS6 down so dramatically. When we pulled him out, we had thought we might send him back to the public schools with a grade skip. But that seems unlikely now. Home schooling has been much too healthy for him to go back. We'd definitely go gifted school before we'd go back to public school!
