Alan & Brenda Leonard

> I sorta cringe everytime another homeschooler makes the news for adademic
> success. It's already as if homeschoolers are being held to a MUCH higher
> standard or else people label it a failure.

Yes. I have an early reader, quick, bright, and all that. So what. I'm
not keeping score, and I feel like people see him as a "typical"
homeschooler, which he's anything but. I don't need to tell people that he
has failings, but of course he has them. Just because a child reads well
doesn't mean they can write, for example. My son can hardly form the
letters with a pencil. He types everything. Geography bee winners can
probably tell you six other things they do well, but aren't likely to let
you know that they still don't understand kitchen fractions or whatever! Do
those failings make homeschooling a failure? Of course not!

brenda