Home schooling on increase

[Lilith7]

My granddaughter was homeschooled from some stage in primary school. She has dyscalculia, which is far less understood than dyslexia - the schools method was to give her more maths until she ''gets it.'' Her mother was homeschooled, all our 4 kids were. I have dyscalculia too, but the method to make me ''get it'' was the cane - every maths period in the 3rd Form, until I could  drop maths as a subject in the 4th Form. Learning problems have always been ignored.

I can sympathise with her - I suspect that I may also have it, though have never been tested. my brain just goes weird (well - weirder) when I try to do anything with lots of large numbers, but oddly I'm really good at budgeting.  I'd always thought i was just really stupid at maths until I came across dyscalculia.

And I do think that's one of the things schools need to do far better at. Years ago, there was a UK doco 'The unteachables' which was about kids who'd been excluded from schools; they took them & put them together with teachers who  first found which way each kid learned best & taught them using that method - & they got good results.