Originally Posted by indigo
Originally Posted by Mana
I think for children who have strengths that make them outliers in that area, at some point, they would need a teacher/mentor who is highly trained in that area and a micro school teacher cannot be a specialist in everything for everyone.
While this may be true for a micro school, it may be equally true in a large public school teaching to the common core, with a stated goal of closing achievement gaps.

I don't want to go too off-topic here but sending her to a public school was never truly an option for us. Her father wanted to believe that it was but even he has given up on that.

Micro schools have their limitations but there are things parents can do to overcome them. We're enrolling at a homeschooling charter school to get an access to science labs and STEM courses. They don't mind if I radically accelerate DD across all subject areas as long as they see appropriate growth. DD would get the consistent socialization by continuing at her current micro school. We are fortunate to have this option but I'm sure there are other alternatives like online classes and homeschooling co-ops.