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My mother used to say something similar. She still feels like 2 hours of school a day is more than enough to keep pace, even for NT children. And I do have to say that typical public school home tutoring schedules pretty much confirm that--if a student is on home tutoring from the public high school, it is quite common for that student to receive two hours of tutoring time per week (maybe two hours twice a week, if they have a lot to catch up on, say, after a psychiatric hospitalization), and for the state to consider that equivalent to the 5x6.5 hours a week that everyone else is getting. That is really interesting. It makes me wonder what could be changed to make the school days more about learning. As I look at our boys' schedules, I am struck by the short time on each subject daily, which doesn't ever seem enough time to truly get everyone settled in and working and asking questions, etc. I wonder what it would take to have longer periods on alternating days. Seems it would be much more efficient.
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DS9 constantly complains about school being a huge waste of time, with all the "blah blah blah" from the teachers all day long. He brings in his Redwall series books and I'm always amazed at home much reading he gets done during the school day. He just sits down w/ his book in the classroom whenever they allow him to, and ignores whatever is going on around him. If they didn't allow his outside books there, I probably would have taken him out by now.
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DS9 constantly complains about school being a huge waste of time, with all the "blah blah blah" from the teachers all day long. He brings in his Redwall series books and I'm always amazed at home much reading he gets done during the school day. He just sits down w/ his book in the classroom whenever they allow him to, and ignores whatever is going on around him. If they didn't allow his outside books there, I probably would have taken him out by now. I'm there with him. I read all through elementary school. When allowed to pick my own seat, I would put myself next to the classroom library and read through the shelves. Through middle/high school, I and my sibling who attended the same high-performing school each read about one book a day during the school day. We visited the school library at the beginning and end of each day to check out/return new books (and sometimes at lunch, too).
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My mother used to say something similar. She still feels like 2 hours of school a day is more than enough to keep pace, even for NT children. And I do have to say that typical public school home tutoring schedules pretty much confirm that--if a student is on home tutoring from the public high school, it is quite common for that student to receive two hours of tutoring time per week (maybe two hours twice a week, if they have a lot to catch up on, say, after a psychiatric hospitalization), and for the state to consider that equivalent to the 5x6.5 hours a week that everyone else is getting. That is really interesting. It makes me wonder what could be changed to make the school days more about learning. As I look at our boys' schedules, I am struck by the short time on each subject daily, which doesn't ever seem enough time to truly get everyone settled in and working and asking questions, etc. I wonder what it would take to have longer periods on alternating days. Seems it would be much more efficient. Where I currently work, we have double periods, and I've been in other secondary schools with block schedules, too. Though there is still a lot of inefficiency, I do think it is a better use of instructional time.
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I remember saying as a 10 year old that if we didn't waste so much time we could easily finish before lunch. I have always really resented having my time wasted.
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What is the best way to go about putting together the curriculum and all materials?
I am interested in the classical curriculum and I do have the Well Trained Mind - but I would also like to examine other books.
Someone mentioned vendors...are there any homeschooling fairs where I can examine various curriculum offers?
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IMO it's part and parcel of school mostly not being about actual education. Few people will thank you for seeing this, but it's very important to understand it. Because that is a prerequisite for making your own choices, and you can make better ones than the ones that will be made for you otherwise.
A polymath all my life; extreme measures never managed to diminish it. Happy to discuss being PG.
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