You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I used to think school was important. When my daughter abandoned it at fourteen I was devastated and fought her for months over that choice. But when I indulged myself with the postgrad study I learned so much about why we have state schools, what they are all about, and how they work, and I started to feel a whole lot better about that parenting thing. Like me, she was reading chapter books at 4 years old and was tested as gifted by the ed psychs at the schools request when she was ten. She abandoned school because she was bullied by her classmates and bored by her lessons, but the surprising thing is she still thinks she did the right thing. And she has said if either of her two want out of the system she will support them in doing so.

Our one size fits all sausage factory schools do not suit all kids. For some it is simply years of torture, they're better out of it, and once into adulthood never look back. Like that kid of mine.

I wish I had known this back then when my heart was breaking over her 'rebellion'...