Friday, October 22, 2010  Homeschooling Situation Check Point
The status is now:  "The tail is wagging the dog."  I hate that
and it must stop.  I knew this over-scheduled autumn would be
difficult but exactly what lessons would be learned was not
known.  By joining multiple homeschool group learning
experiences I have given away my power to have full (or almost
any) control of the learning experiences my kids are exposed to.
What they are spending their time doing will not get them to
their goals they set for themselves or to the goals my husband
and I have for them.  Additionally some classes that we didn't
think would have homework have homework, sometimes twice as 
much homework as the length of their class that week.  Some
classes have required last-minute added-on purchase of textbooks
or other supplies.  Some classes have required additional
prerequisite learning be done which takes time and sometimes the
purchase of even more curricula. In one case the course content
was so difficult extra work indep