Well this is
where school is wrong for so many children,
children like mine are very able to but they are not able to write it
down till secondary level, or not sufficiently to demonstrate the
sophistication of their understanding. They have problems transposing
numbers so make mistakes in simple maths but later go on to understand
complex proofs and logic with relative ease. Primary school especially
is abusive as performance is all that matters, performance and stats.
School tells these children that they are unintelligent and a failure
and how many never learn different, I had no idea of how very wrong they
were about me until well into my 50s. Home ed lets the child learn and
teach through conversation, hard to imagine how school could match it.
Perhaps if it became a resource to help children answer their many
questions rather that shut up sit down keep still stop talking. Due to
my own dire and abusive education where I was blamed and shamed for
having a different brain not a plodding sequential one but a leaps and
spurts and make odd connections one I have protected my children from
the damage schools do to people like us. We are the wrong shape for
mass teaching, but I have learnt a lot about learning and child
psychology and development in the process. Good luck with your Phd, it
would be wonderful if a change that protected neurodiverse kids from
plodding repetitive curricula and being profoundly misunderstood could
could be instigated but you must know that government usually go in
exactly the opposite direction of what quality research suggests would
be efficacious.
Thing
is children who are home educated can play through the primary years
and pick up everything that is taught so laboriously to the children
trapped in the classroom for so many hours, so many years, as a bi
product of play and curiosity.