Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Good post Jim.
I'll start off by saying that noone ever accused me of being smart so when I say that I cannot help my daughter with some of her Math Homework you don't have to laugh too hard. She is in the 6th grade and I cringe when I see some of her work load.

She is working on a paper right now about the "New Deal" and the Depression....how appropriate huh? It's scary to read those books because it seems like we are following the text as a game plan to fail right now.

Yeah we spend some serious coin to send her to a local Christian Academy but it's worth it.
I feel your pain brother. My wife spends an afternoon a week assisting in the classroom, and I go in and read to her class every now and then, but they already do work that challenges my pea sized brain.

Her teacher tried to teach me how to "code" words at an evening status check. After I looked like a dog staring at fan for a while, she gave me a sheet to take home and study. Her mouth said things like, "well it's not hard as it looks", but her eyes said I'd be wearing a tall pointy hat if I were in her class.

I have huge amount of respect for good teachers, and so far my daughter's had the best.