Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone

When his mother decides he’s too gifted for public school and says she’ll be homeschooling him for fifth grade, Stefan Block has a dark sense of what’s coming. “Mom sometimes gets ideas which aren’t like other people’s,” he notes uneasily in his recent memoir Homeschooled, writing from the perspective of his child self, even though he’s 44 now, and his mother is dead.