I do get annoyed sometimes with the school and the way they do things:  the crappy common core math, the Makers Space which has no actual purpose and now sucks up time they should be using for history, the stupid yoga, the lame science teacher who just gives them busy work and not interesting, hands-on stuff, the Reading program which is no longer optional.  I feel irked.  But then what am I going to do?  Fight with the principal all the time?  Have continuous meetings with the teachers?  Pull them out and send them to a private school?  Homeschool?  No.  Reality check.  I don't want to be fighting a losing battle or even expending energy feeling annoyed and "stuck".  I am taking action where I can for the priorities we have.  I am finding a math tutor to work with A.  I will have G do it too at some point-maybe now?  He loves math and is actually scary good at it, although I don't want to burn him out.  We never had science in elementary school.  Of course-this didn't matter to me, because I didn't like it.  Do my kids get science from S?  Yes-lots.  They should probably get more-so maybe we start doing Science Saturday with 1 science thing a week.  What else?  More reading.  I am REALLY bad at this.  I don't know why.  I love reading.  My mother used to take us to the library once a week.  I never do this.  Even over break when we had time, I didn't prioritize.  So what can you control?  I can control how much screen time WE ARE ALL DOING and WE CAN READ INSTEAD.  (I had to put it in caps to get my own attention.)  Also-I know that they are really smart kids, we give them lots of opportunities to do interesting things, they're exposed to museums and different cultures, and we've traveled, they will figure it out.  The science at Diegueno is really good, the science in high school is very good.  If science/math is their passion, they will study it in college.  I don't need to get hung up on making sure they are getting everything a certain way now.