Pandemic homeschoolers who are not going back
My wife and I pulled our kids out at age 10 and 13. The laws in Nevada are just like those in Texas: Write a letter, the kids are yours.<p>The first thing we did was nothing, for about 6 months. Getting the kids out of the routine and mindset that school had put them in was vital to being able to teach them. My 10y&#x2F;o son had the idea that his teachers knew more than my wife and I did &quot;because they&#x27;re older&quot;. He could have only got that idea <i>at school</i> because that&#x27;s the polar opposite of what we taught at home.<p>I worked full time, but my wife did not and she poured a lot of energy into teaching the kids. But we also did things that weren&#x27;t schooling. We let the kids learn on their own the things they wanted to learn <i>when they wanted to learn them</i>. This was wonderful. My son picked up programming just for fun and didn&#x27;t even tell me about it until after, when he had already lost interest and moved on. But that was okay, because I didn&#x27;t expect him to be a programmer or anything else. I just wanted him to learn. Same for our daughter. They learned. They got GED&#x27;s and that was that.<p>They&#x27;re both extremely well rounded adults now and didn&#x27;t go through the agonies of public schooling.