My wife and I are homeschooling our daughter. She's still pretty little, 7 1/2. She went to school for a year and then we started homeschooling, not because any

My wife and I are homeschooling our daughter. She's still pretty little, 7 1/2. She went to school for a year and then we started homeschooling, not because anything was particularly wrong at school but we just love spending time with her (and she with us) and our lives are flexible enough to do it. In her first year at school, the teacher was incredibly effusive about her. We were interested in maths because before she went to school we had always thought that she struggled with anything to do with numbers, but the teacher reassured us that everything was fine. But within a week of us sitting down with her to do maths, it became very clear that she had absolutely no idea of even the most basic concepts around numbers, sequences, addition, or anything else. We asked her how she had managed to do the material that the teacher had shown us, and she looked a little sheepish and said: "well, we do all that in groups..." I don't know how long she could have kept faking it in the school system. But at least in our case, our daughter was perfectly capable of playing the system and slipping through the cracks, in a way that was completely impossible with us one on one. We're lucky that we're educated and have resources etc, but our daughter will absolutely be better off getting the help that we can organise for her and the personalisation in her learning that we can offer than she would be in the school system.