The hardest decision has been made. Big A will return home to school. He is having a marvelous time (most days) at school. And this year, I admit, they have actually learned useful things, including how to work with people of different abilities. However, Big A has also learned that he can slide into mediocrity at school. He doesn't push himself. Everything that is easy, he aces and the things that are tough he simply doesn't do or won't do well. His teacher, whom I really like, doesn't push him, because I don't think she honestly knows that he's sliding. She likely thinks that he simply isn't good at math. Actually he is, once he gets the concepts, but since there is rarely ever any kind of meaningful homework, we don't go over it - and also because I don't know what's going on in the classroom. If you want to be an uninvolved parent, send your kids to public school, because they don't tell you anything that's going on and the kids learn to tell their parents nothing (from each other).
If we had no other choices, I would send them to PS, I would. But we do have choices. So home they will be. Now, to learn how to budget the years education expenses, since we can't deduct them from taxes.
oh budgeting, how I loathe thee.
