It is natural that he is protected at school, at home, perhaps over-protected. As a result, Nathan is slow, sometimes unwilling, to take much initiative with his written work and reading assignments. His writing is difficult to decipher. Home schooling allows the parents to capitalize on what the child can do and patiently await the skills he has yet to master. This could never happen in a public school environment.
People still have such strong stereotypes of special needs children.
That s what the Bible teaches too. Some of the thirty parents I interviewed for the book have kept their children in public school. But we can see that it would have been so much easier on us and Nathan to have home schooled him because he could do the work, but at a much slower speed. I know if we had considered educating Nathan at home full time, we probably would have felt we were not qualified. Since we had to tutor Nathan so that he could make it through public school, I worked with him on English and literature while Ellis did the math and science.