(this is an old post but thought i'd finally post it)
I had a moment today, as I do most days, on why we homeschool. Specifically on math... today, why do we homeschool?
When he left school (at the end of grade 2) I quickly learned he was back at a grade 1 level in most aspects of math. I mean he could count and had the concepts, but not the facts, of basic addition and subtraction but could not really apply any knowledge in real life (or even word problems) any other aspects in in grade 1 or grade 2 math were not understood. I feel like the school did so much testing (3-5 tests every friday), and he did ok in them, That he learned to memorize what he needed for the tests one cause they were all timed and two because he wasn't being taught in a way he could understand so if he can't understand he'd memorize to do well enough not to get in any more trouble than he was already in.
[To be fair the word problems is a huge issue for pdd children as i understand it and his teacher did notice he could not do them but did not see any connection to his other issues; mainly cause the school blamed me for the issues they did notice and didn't notice most of them.]
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