I'd only take it as a personal assault if you'd never thought about it before, but decided to homeschool while your kid was in my class. :)

Am I right in thinking you don't have kids yet? If not, or if they're small, allow me to make a suggestion. Hamilton schools are changing. Since you're not on my friends list and those changes are, necessarily, locked down, and I don't know any other Hamilton teacher in my position who's also on LJ, you may not realize how much. The difference between now and when I was growing up - even between now and when I started teaching ten years ago - is absolutely astounding, and most of the changes are positive. (And unfortunately, they're fuelled by a few of the things that are less-than-positive, making those things a necessary evil.) My suggestion is: when it's time to consider school for your first child, go visit. See what the local school has to offer, and ask questions about how they'd handle any potential learning difficulties you're spotting, or any that you suspect might come up. Judging the current education system on the system that was in place twenty years ago is unfair.

One of my pet peeves in life is people who think they understand education because it was done to them. :)