I went to public school and private school growing up, and neither fit well. I have learning issues and even though I know my public school made attempts to help me, and the private school basically passed me through grades when needed, neither ended up actually addressing my needs. It wasn't until I graduated high school and moved away from my family that I realized how messed up I actually was and then started to fix myself over the next few years. I have a high IQ, logical thinking, and street smarts - that has saved my butt more than a lot of learning in school. I will say this much, when I first moved away I seriously had trouble adding 8 and 5 and coming out with 13. It wasn't that I couldn't do it, it was that my brain would try to tear down the numbers weird and it never really just would click. It took a couple years, but now I have no issues with real world math - the stuff you actually need so you can do budgets, pay bills, read bank statements.
Now I'm struggling to answer the same question again. My son may have what I have, he was doing ok in public school for awhile because it was a school on an Air Force base, so it was almost like private school and very rigid and strict. Then my ex (who had custody) took him to another state where he was in a good public school too. He just never got the same discipline there, and they don't baby the kids they just let them fall. So he basically was flunking 6th grade halfway through the year when I got custody. I put him in K12 (homeschool), and we did the spring semester of 6th grade at home - he passed with one C, and all other grades were A or B. He can pace himself, take breaks, and switch subjects when he wants to (not always the best thing either as he spent four hours yesterday ignoring math and doing art instead). As a parent, you are the teacher at home, with online teaching support guiding you. It does become another job to a degree, especially for us, since I have to stay on him or he would wander around lessons so bad he would flunk out. On the other hand, I know a family that has two girls that are in 4th grade and police themselves through their lessons so well the parents hardly have to do anything. I've talked about putting him back in public school because it physically wears me down to work and teach during the year, but I'm afraid he'll flunk out again. If he goes back to public school or even private school, I'm still going to have to watch over him to make sure the assignments are being done anyhow - so why not stay in K12 where I know what we are on at least? As a side note, since helping him with his lessons, I have also relearned much of what I failed to learn in school myself - bonus.
Now I'm struggling to answer the same question again. My son may have what I have, he was doing ok in public school for awhile because it was a school on an Air Force base, so it was almost like private school and very rigid and strict. Then my ex (who had custody) took him to another state where he was in a good public school too. He just never got the same discipline there, and they don't baby the kids they just let them fall. So he basically was flunking 6th grade halfway through the year when I got custody. I put him in K12 (homeschool), and we did the spring semester of 6th grade at home - he passed with one C, and all other grades were A or B. He can pace himself, take breaks, and switch subjects when he wants to (not always the best thing either as he spent four hours yesterday ignoring math and doing art instead). As a parent, you are the teacher at home, with online teaching support guiding you. It does become another job to a degree, especially for us, since I have to stay on him or he would wander around lessons so bad he would flunk out. On the other hand, I know a family that has two girls that are in 4th grade and police themselves through their lessons so well the parents hardly have to do anything. I've talked about putting him back in public school because it physically wears me down to work and teach during the year, but I'm afraid he'll flunk out again. If he goes back to public school or even private school, I'm still going to have to watch over him to make sure the assignments are being done anyhow - so why not stay in K12 where I know what we are on at least? As a side note, since helping him with his lessons, I have also relearned much of what I failed to learn in school myself - bonus.
