Auckland City Student tour

Many homeschooling mothers begin the school year in September with high expectations. By March, however, we discover that we are behind schedule,and it's evident that our students will not complete their courses by the end of May. At that time, most of us react in one of two ways,both of which are equally unsatisfactory. Either we become so discouraged that we do not even try to rectify the situation, and just before Memorial Day we promote our students to

the next grade, or we embark on an impossible program of ten-to-twelve-hour school days in an attempt to regain lost ground.

I think the major reason that we homeschooling mothers have problems completing the school year is that most of us are products of the public school system. Read more