So - the mother is gone to work with a full-time job - she is not HOME, yet is home schooling her son, who can't do any simple tasks his child his age can do. She sounds like a nut job, and the father needs to put his foot down for the sake of his kid. Grandma can call her out, but has no authority to change anything.

Poor mom is mad?! Well, the only ones who have a good reason to be really mad, are her neglected child and his dear grandma who has to step in 4 times each week while he could be at school!

In about ten years, the United States won't have enough doctors, pilots, teachers, engineers, and all other professional experts to help the willfully uneducated or under-educated masses - who, in their ignorance, will still feel entitled to the same level of civilized service their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Also, due to the short-sighted goal of deregulation or government oversight, the water and food and medicine won't be safe either. Darwin Awards all around - the disaster relief workers facing armed attackers in the southern states is a preview of coming attractions.

At 7 years old I could barely read, spell, or subtract, so this isn't surprising. Eventually I got straight A's and majored in Physics and Chemistry. However, everyone knows homeschooling is pure garbage. Every person I know who survived it laments how far they got left behind, and how hard they had to work to make up for its deficits when trying to get into post-secondary. People legitimately homeschool their kids when they have physical/psychological needs. The rest of the time it's just so they can indoctrinate their kid into whatever weird cult the parents believe in. Get that kid back into a real school!

There needs to be federal regulations on homeschooling, you know check up on them and make sure they are on par with public school kids of the same age and what not. All these red states that allow people to do whatever they want with their kids with no oversight is insane and it's criminal, there will be repercussions in the future when these kids start entering the adult world and will be unemployable, but the parents that made these terrible choices will be the ones who suffer the most so I guess maybe it will become a self correcting problem.

It's the same method and reasons that reading was discouraged in the middle ages - parents that do this want to control the information their child sees and limit their power to think for themselves or challenge their parents. Deep down they know if the child had an education, they would understand their parents are force feeding them illogical and abusive informatio. There's no care for the child as an individualz only for how they serve the parent. It's criminal that CPS can't take the child away.

Teaching is a profession you have to be qualified for. Parents are simply not. Home-schooling just means you're letting your child fall behind and as we all know, making up for a lack of education is hard. That is why we don't have home-schooling unless under very strict conditions, meaning you will be assessed regularly on how your child is doing.I'll never understand why you guys don't take education seriously.

Some parents can't handle the idea of their kid knowing more than they do. The kid might start thinking for themself! Might uncover the untruths their parents tell them.

Anyone saying that YTA has lost their mind. Your grandson needs to be educated and your daughter is clearly not doing anything to support that happening. It's not your responsibility to teach him and get him caught up when you babysit. It's also not even possible for you to do that when you don't have the curriculum or even enough time with him. You will be the AH if you don't call CPS about this. Otherwise your grandson will never be a functioning member of society. He will be unemployable because he cannot add 1+ 1 or subtract Those are the most basic skills someone has to have to even have a very simple low level poverty level job. You are NTA!

People telling the grandma to teach the kid are insane. She said she's not a teacher, she didn't sign up for that, she is aware she is not qualified to teach, so why is the mother's stupid decision to homeschool the kid suddenly the grandmother's obligation?!

I have a former coworker who's wife was a school teacher. When COVID hit, they converted their dining room into a classroom, complete with school desks, and she started homeschooling their 3 kids. Now she's also homeschooling the neighbors kids too, and last I heard they're all well ahead of benchmarks. I give it a few years before she turns it into a private school. I wish that was the norm, but unfortunately it isn't. Most of the homeschooled kids I've seen are ignorant, don't know how far behind they are, and don't know how to learn.

I feel sad for the son because he is going to miss out many basic things and not just knowledge. School teach children to socialize and co-exist with others. School helps in raising future adults that can be responsible, make their own decisions and not to believe in everything anyone says to them. Furthermore, the subjects they learn also helps them in founding their passion and what they want to do in their future. The son will miss out all these things.

This is unforgivable. I wasn't home schooled, but I was reading before I started school at 5, simply because we had books at home and I was encouraged to do so. I can't fathom a child being so far behind at 7 that he knows no math or shapes. This is basically child abuse and I can't understand the people who support the mother and wonder why the grandmother hasn't managed to get him up speed when she occasionally babysits. They are delusional. Probably the same people who would call CPS at the drop of a hat IRL but can't see the problem here.

If the parent was educated but apparently not...Do these parents know their ABC"S or to multiply,lol yup they do

Yeah, those first three sentences really did it to me. I was rarely so confused. This clearly was wtitten by AlabamaGPT... oh wait! SIL=Son in law?! My bad

The great advantage of homeschooling is that children's don't have to be forced to learn at the same standardized rate as their peers. Some kids need more time for some things and less for others. BUT it is a fundamentally dangerous practice to have accepted with no oversight in society. Abuse goes undetected, the religious indoctrination and trauma is very real for many kids, and it is much harder to access key resources for children with learning disabilities. I firmly believe that part-time schooling should be legal and supported as standard practice for those who don't benefit from the school system (there are kids for whom school does more harm than good) but the children need a legally enforced right to have contact with teachers and support staff from outside the homeschooling community

My early education was in an Eastern European country where in grade 4 I could do math calculations, without a calculator, that I ended up doing again in high school while allow to use a calculator. Most of my North American peers were still somehow struggling with basic math to me as a 12 year old. The public education system is absolutely ridiculous, so if I had children I would be home schooling them. It sounds like this mom is not willing to do any actual teaching and is actually damaging her child.

YTA, you say you have him four days a week, SO stop bitching she doesn't teach him anything and TEACH HIM YOURSELF, using the most basic of basic home education material. It was bad enough my mother could barely spell, and had to take hard labour jobs that destroyed her help, till she got adult eduation to learn the right skiills to take on temp work of a clerical kind. If someone who gave a damn, just educated her young, she wouldn't have had too. YOU have the time to baby-sit, you have time to educate to read and right, and who gives a damn what schools, incomprehensible new maths methods are, teach him the maths YOU KNOW, then he will KNOW MATHS, period. If YOU are not willing to teach the child when you have him, don't grouch because, oh dear, neither is she, guess she had/ still has, a bad example.

Yeah, try some tact if you want to influence your daughter. Right now, you aren’t helping.