When my son Nathaniel, now 11, was about 2, it became crystal clear
that he would be lost in a public school setting. I felt that his gifts
of sensitivity and intuition would be, shall we say, underappreciated,
in public school.
The obvious alternative, then, was
homeschooling. In homeschooling, I could protect my child from the
horrid beasts of public school. I could expand on his obvious (to me) high
intelligence and sensitivity, traits I valued. In homeschooling, I
could give my son everything I thought he needed in an education
(elitist attitude? why yes!)
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