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polarbear - Yes, our family does in fact have a microscope (which unfortunately has been gathering dust of late).

I realize that stuff like this is cheap and can be done at home if not at school. But the fact that microscopes are so cheap is part of the reason I'm so irritated that the school doesn't have them (I have heard that the reason that scientific equipment is sparse and experiments/demos rare is a financial one. But to me, if you can't afford a set of microscopes for a few middle school science labs, given that they can be had cheaply and used for years, and that our district is not impoverished, then resources are being poorly allocated somehow...)

Re: other schooling options - that's a longer deeper topic hinted at a bit in some of the other flurried posts I've made in the last 36 hours (I like this board!) There are alternatives, but not easy ones, IMO...