Also considered home-schooling and remember having many doubts as to whether in the end my kids would fare better or not. I feel we've been able to nurture thei

Also considered home-schooling and remember having many doubts as to whether in the end my kids would fare better or not. I feel we've been able to nurture their natural love of learning mostly by unschooling. My fear of the school system was that it would effectively kill this love of learning, and in fact, we did give up on public school after 6 months of what really only seemed like crowd control. My son would sit quietly at school not really doing or learning that much, and then let out all his energy and frustrations at home. Fortunately changing school to one that follows Montessori method has worked really well for him and my daughter. They get much more personalized attention, they satisfy their curiosities and make tangible progress in different areas. For our particular case I don't believe we could have done better with home schooling. BTW my son was for several months an astronomy freak and would have given the same answer as your daughter. I hope you had a talk with the teacher, and explained to your daughter that she's in the right.