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Originally Posted by ShooterMcGee
Public school is prison without bars IMHO. I am currently researching curriculum so I can homechool my boys starting in the fall. My older son is allegedly receiving Special Ed services, and yet is still failing several classes. When he asks for help in math, he's told "you should have learned that last year" or "you just aren't paying attention, you know this."
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fwiw, my little brother and I both went to a public school, and I lucked out and had some amazing math teachers, but by the time he came along, they had left. In his algebra II class he was completely lost (as were most of the other students), so I spent a few minutes with him at home explaining it, and he caught on with very little help from me. The teacher was just that incompetent. It's one thing to understand something (which the teacher did) and another entirely to explain it (which the teacher could not).
On the other hand, in my high school calculus class, the entire class failed two exams. Rather than take it out on us, the teacher would say, "Well, I obviously did a poor job explaining that. Let's go over that chapter again." And we would. In detail. He was more concerned that we understand everything than he was about speeding through the textbook. I was able to pass out of the first two math classes in college because of that man.