The public school system and DOE is the most corrupt system in our gov. We moved to a top school district in Missouri, thinking schools would be worth the horrific taxes. Every person on our street did same thing. NONE of us made it more than 1 year with our first child in public school. The school board got angry at my neighbor, who has her Master’s in teaching ironically, for asking questions at a school Board meeting about the math curiculum! The district used a math program that REQUIRED 1st graders to use a calculator for every problem! They got angry that my son had gone to preschool and asked me to teach him to read….it took 3 weeks! When the K teacher found out she told me I probably “ruined” him LOL Had to tell her that it was only phonics and I’m pretty sure there’s no evidence that phonics “ruins” children LOL Go to Rainbow Resource Center (not affiliated in ANY way) and you can buy anything your school can get. Get the book, “The Well Trained Mind” (not affiliated in ANY way) and they give you all the options for a program that will get your kids into Ivy League schools. Don’t put up with people telling you that you “can’t teach your children as well as a certified teacher” My kids take Latin starting in 3rd grade and Spanish in K. We don’t worry about bullies or peer pressure, and it’s made our family life awesome! Best part, we can do half days in spring and late summer, go 6 days a week in nasty winter, and go on family vacations when the lemmings are all sitting in public school LOL I can take 8 kids to Walt Disney World the first week of December for what I could take 2 during Christmas vacation, and no lines either:)
