Don't forget "unschooling." My wife and I have two daughters, who are eight and thirteen years old. Neither have ever been enrolled in a state school. We've ha

Don't forget "unschooling." My wife and I have two daughters, who are eight and thirteen years old. Neither have ever been enrolled in a state school. We've had brief experiments with structured curricula, but we've always found that they're just unsuitable for us - they require a (relatively) huge amount of time, both parents and children tire of it quickly, and most importantly, they don't seem to offer anything. We regularly test our children both informally and formally. They're learning everything their cohorts are required to know and more through simply living life alongside us. They're a bit behind their peers in some of the more formal/structured areas of grammar, but their actual verbal and written language usage is significantly beyond expectations for their age. They're both far ahead in math, history, social studies, geography, etc. For kids in particular, learning is something they do by nature. When they get bored, they learn something new. As long as the parents are invested in shaping a productive adult and are able to provide adequate resources for the kids to satisfy their curiosities, my experience leads me to believe that traditional K-12 "schooling" is entirely unnecessary.