Читать книгу Homeschooling For Dummies - Jennifer Kaufeld - Страница 27

Sometimes the school system simply fails to meet your child’s needs. If your child slips through the cracks and misses too much information, he falls farther and farther behind. Before you know it, the school wants him to undertake remedial work in an effort to make up lost time.

This situation is so frustrating for parents! You send them to school in the hope that the establishment will teach them what they need to know. By the time you find out there’s a problem, though, it may be months after the issue reaches an almost critical stage.

Bringing a child like this home rescues him from the condemnation he feels at school. This alone often relieves enough stress so that your child can concentrate and make up the work with a patient parent sitting alongside. It’s not unusual for a parent and student to wing through one to two years’ worth of lessons in a school year and catch the student up to his current grade level.

If you rescue your child from an emotionally stressful or failure-ridden school year, he may need some time to unwind and get used to his new daily surroundings. Your best bet is to relax, take it slow, and give him some time. Think of it this way: If you bring him home in December and only get a couple months’ of quality learning in before the end of the year, that’s two more months than he was going to get in the classroom, right?

You can read about more specific special needs in Chapter 19.