Little Star Homeschool

We visited Robert's Nana yesterday, thats my mum. We mentioned homeschooling some time ago, maybe last year and she has of course taken the opposite stance. Now he is nearing school age she is laying on the pressure to send him to school. She says school is great, school is good, Robert will do well etc., she is unable to think outside of the box and because I am a free thinker we have always clashed horribly on the big issues. She cannot understand my concerns about the state of the education system, I think this is a bit rich considering she taught me more at home at the weekends and in the holidays than my teachers could. She often joked she could have been a teacher but she was and never realised it. All parents teach to a greater or lesser degree.
Unfortunately she believes that because Robert is bright he will thrive. However, Robert's step-brother is equally intelligent and found school boring, limiting and far from stimulating. Schools must teach to the average abilities of the class and spend too much time on crowd control thus bright pupils are ignored if not dumbed down.