re: #410 doppelganglander

It sounds like “learn at your own pace,” in practice, became “we don’t have anyone qualified to teach you.” When I got bored, they gave me extra book reports to do. I got so disenchanted with academics that I barely passed high school.

It’s very lucky you had the ability to give your kids the extra attention in math. I wish you’d been around when I was homeschooling my oldest and neither one of us understood it. ;)

I actually have had trouble teaching math below the level of algebra because it’s just so obvious for me now. I don’t understand why people can’t see it. Why fractions are problematic is a mystery to me.