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Originally Posted by SweetCaroline

so are you saying that it looks like i need to think some more? or were you specifically addressing the 'enough' issue

The first . Because the thing with the enough issue is enough for *what*? What is your goal?

Equivalent to your local ps? Equivalent to a really good ps? Good enough to get into community college? Good enough to get into a good state university? Good enough to get into ivy league schools? Something else entirely? "Enough" looks different for each of those.

And it's kid-specific, too. Your math goals for a mathy kid might be higher than your goals for a non-mathy kid. And a kid with LDs is probably going to spend more time on the basics than a non-LD kid. "Enough" can look different for each kid, because the specific goals are different for each kid.

So I can tell you if that's enough by my standards for my kids, but that might not mean *anything* wrt your standards for your kids.

K12 had a defined goal for what "enough" looked like, a program to get you there, and standards to tell where you stood at any given moment in relation to their idea of "enough". That's the benefit of doing someone else's program - they've done the heavy lifting of defining goals and figuring out things to do to meet the goal and ways to measure progress toward the goal. And for parents who agree with the goal and the methods, whose dc are a good fit for the goal and the methods, it can be a good choice.

But since k12 isn't working for you - you have different methods in mind - you also need to set your own goals.

Then you can ask, "is this enough to get me to my goal?" which will get you more specific, meaningful, and helpful answers .

Does that make sense?