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Deborah Campbell's avatar

Like the majority of Americans, I grew up in the public school system. I have two adult children. One deaf other has CAPD. The public school system labeled my children and because of their labels underestimate their intelligence and never challenged them. I found myself purchasing materials etc and teaching my children skills and subjects not taught by schools including the Constitution and federalist papers.

As a young parent in a blue state, I never knew about homeschooling option. Eventually I was befriended by a homeschooling mom. She pointed out I was homeschooling my children…her encouragement led to homeschooling. However the state required monitoring homeschooling parents via frequent government employees performing home visits. These employees reviewed all curriculum materials documentation of activities and tests.

These employees state Department of education had the power to revoke your homeschooling privileges.

My children excelled.

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TC Marti's avatar

Learning the same thing year after year is something I can relate to, as my own government school did exactly this. I actually had the same history textbook in seventh grade that I did in sixth grade, and apparently the "difference" was that the seventh-grade course took a deeper, more critical dive into the material. I'm sure you'll all be unsurprised to know that it didn't; it was the same exact course. The only real difference was that an even more incompetent teacher led the class.

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