I think regardless of which methods of schooling we choose, as parents we are going to worry and struggle with our choices from time to time. I wanted to home school and felt such guilt sending my son to a school with kids that weren't very nice and to a room that didn't support his creative spirit - we did our best to mitigate this at home but really he would have been much happier home schooled because he was one of the kids that didn't want to conform. Some settle right into school and love it. Others don't.

That said, I know kids that were home schooled and only attended the final year of school for a diploma, others that took less conventional schooling like Montessori and others that followed the standard education and they've all turned out to be wonderful and capable people because their parents cared and put in the time to nurture an enrich their education at home.

I had worries for a while where our son was in French immersion and his reading was not at all at the level that I expected him to be at - and I considered pulling him out of the French program but when I stepped back I realized how much he was learning in other areas I realized that my expectations were based on my own experiences and not his. eventually his reading caught up and even more amazing was the fact that he was able to read in two languages. Children are capable of so much and it seems so absurd that we've accepted systems that measure and grade children as though they are all the same.

You are doing an amazing job, never lose sight of that.