Time Wasted In School: The Core Classes
In part 1 of this series, I examined all of the time spent outside of class during the 7 total hours in the school building. Part 2 described the wasteful nature of electives. In part 3, we will be moving on into the core classes. Surely less time is wasted in such...
Time Wasted In School: The Electives
Click here to read part 1: Time wasted in public school outside of class Now that we've cut away all the trimmings of public school, we can now get to the meat—the actual classes. In public school, you have the four core classes: Math, English, Science, and History....
Time Wasted In School: Outside of Class
It's a common fear I've heard expressed among those who homeschool: too much time is wasted, or more specifically, “Are we doing as much as the public schooled kids are doing???” I'm not going to juxtapose these two different modes of education in this post; however,...
The #1 Mistake Parents Make When Teaching Their Child to Read
The process of teaching our children to read can be a wonderful and rewarding experience. As a mother of seven children, one of the most important things I have come to understand is that every child has their own timetable for...