just a thought

I wonder how much it would irk my amazing American friends IF

every school day they realized they would have to think about how to properly convert their child's math program because, after all, it was written by a bunch of Canadians and it uses all the wrong measurements and the money is way off, but the pictures are pretty and the paper doesn't seem to irritate their son so they will stick with it, even though ...

Every couple of days in a lesson week, they need to investigate what happened on their side of the border while presenting the history lesson because, again, the history textbook they dropped in favour (favor) of historical fiction is not exactly mentioning their country much at all.  Ok, a slight exagguration ... there were two sentences about their nation.

Atlas adventures are a wreck, too.  How do you navigate a country so huge when the curriculum available only talks about the nation next door, and the Atlas itself has only one, very large, double page spread on the country as a whole, and you cannot even find where you happen to live on it?

That isn't to say there is nothing a homeschool Mom in Canada can do, it just means it takes a bit more work as a whole to find the books and resources to round out the stuff you can buy in the catalogues.  Unless you want to wait until the Public Schools get rid of a bunch of "old" texts, the commodity of Canadian curriculum for the homeschooler is comparatively curtailed.

No personal offence, but I long for the homeschool day when my kids can know just as much about their own culture and history as they do about America's.