Carmina:and the mom's idea of homeschooling seemed extremely relaxed
Do you think the children's progress was due to this more so than the methods that go with Thomas Jefferson? From reading the descriptions and reviews, I would have expected children using the system to be reading classics and such.
Carmina:the kids were writing journal entries that seemed 2 years behind what my kids where doing in public school.
The same could be said of my children really. We do quite a bit of oral work over written work. My two oldest children find reading and writing to be very large struggles so instead of focusing on that when I want them to retain information, we take a different approach.