How do you feel about supplementing the school's curriculum at home, particularly in something like math?
I have been thinking about this after reading all of the lovely posts concerning home-schooling curriculum and the wonderful options that are open to learning. DS8 is so very fascinated with learning, and positively glows when he is challenged. He continually asks me to get him a book on algebra. However, I worry that if I introduce algebra, for instance, to him now because he is excited about it, then he will be all the more bored at school. Supplementing at home seems like it makes the whole grade acceleration issue just that much worse. But it is sooo very hard to try to put the breaks on his learning for the sole reason that it will throw him more out of synch with the other kids. How do you balance a child's love of learning and their eagerness to continually push themselves forward with a school system that does not want them to race ahead?
Has this been addressed in any previous posts? Does the term "hot-housing", which I have just recently learned from this web site, apply to this scenario? And does anyone else with kids in the public or private school system struggle with this? Has anyone figured out an answer?
