You Have a Curriculum Addiction and the Used Book Sale Made It Worse
You own four math curricula, three language arts programs, and a Latin course you bought at 11 PM after watching a conference talk. You've finished none of them. We need to talk.
You own four math curricula, three language arts programs, and a Latin course you bought at 11 PM after watching a conference talk. You've finished none of them. We need to talk.

A massive new study just linked grade inflation to lower test scores, fewer diplomas, and $213,872 in lost lifetime earnings per classroom per year — and it might be the best argument for homeschooling you've never heard.

Tiny desks. Bulletin boards. A classroom flag. You spent $300 recreating a school in your spare bedroom because that's the only model you know. But the whole point was to break the model.

"Grade level" was invented to sort 30 kids into one room with one teacher. It was never a developmental milestone. It's a filing system. Stop letting a filing system tell you your child is behind.