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Sorry your life and outlook are so dismal.

I've homeschooled, regular schooled, and combined.
I've never loved anything more than the times my kids aren't confined by a schedule.
My schedule be damned.
Their freedom is so cool to watch.
They are suddenly 'me' running over rocks in a creek, but 'they' are skimming boards in the ocean.
They are watching cartoons in the morning, we are reading late at night.

Can we afford this life on 25K? No.
Have we found a way to do it anyway?
Oh, yes.

I want to answer in two words, Lois Solomon's question from July 8 on why so many parents have ALL their children in Gifted classes -- sibling rivalry! We fought private testing as unfair when our eldest was determined to be Gifted by the school in Kindergarten. Then our youngest, with the same IQ (despite what the studies say, he tested 2 points higher!) and the same non-conformist behavior, ran into an unsympathetic teacher and the "disability" fads, and was placed in Special Ed. We fought it hard for a decade until he reached high school, when he suddenly became "just Gifted," with apologies to us! Parents cannot have their eldest child treated as royalty (which the school system, and especially teachers, all do in Gifted), while their younger siblings are treated as nothing special in Regular, or even as little criminals in Special Ed. (with restraints both physical and chemical). And if the older one gets to call the younger one "Dummy" for the luck of this draw, it is even more unfair to the second child and extremely detrimental to the dynamics of the family. If we had paid for private testing for our younger son at age 5, we would have saved thousands of dollars in defensive testing and a decade of pure grief. I no longer blame those parents with the money to make sure ALL their children are labeled Gifted. It's the only smart thing to do!

I want to answer in two words, Lois Solomon's question from July 8 on why so many parents have ALL their children in Gifted classes -- sibling rivalry! We fought private testing as unfair when our eldest was determined to be Gifted by the school in Kindergarten. Then our youngest, with the same IQ (despite what the studies say, he tested 2 points higher!) and the same non-conformist behavior, ran into an unsympathetic teacher and the "disability" fads, and was placed in Special Ed. We fought it hard for a decade until he reached high school, when he suddenly became "just Gifted," with apologies to us! Parents cannot have their eldest child treated as royalty (which the school system, and especially teachers, all do in Gifted), while their younger siblings are treated as nothing special in Regular, or even as little criminals in Special Ed. (with restraints both physical and chemical). And if the older one gets to call the younger one "Dummy" for the luck of this draw, it is even more unfair to the second child and extremely detrimental to the dynamics of the family. If we had paid for private testing for our younger son at age 5, we would have saved thousands of dollars in defensive testing and a decade of pure grief. I no longer blame those parents with the money to make sure ALL their children are labeled Gifted. It's the only smart thing to do!