If you are against home schooling, why?
Quoting mumsy2three:
Quoting Monise78:
I'm not against you homeschooling your children. I'm against homeschooling my children. LolGood answer,lol.
I agree.
I'm against it when I go to the grocery store at 11am and see a child who is supposed to be at school walking the aisle. I'm against it when the person doing the teaching doesn't have a degree. I'm against children not interacting with other children but instead,,,,,,they're at Target being loud and ruining my "stress free" Target shopping experience! :)
1. As a teacher, I don't like it because not everyone is qualified to be a teacher. I'm not arguing that everyone who gets a degree is qualified to be a teacher either, but at least they've had some training on how to deal with a reading problem or math problem.
2. I think it's important for children to learn that they have to listen and deal with people who are outside of their family in an environment where they don't have the protection of running back to their parents. I think play groups and homeschool groups are a wonderful thing for homeschooling families, but they are still protected if something goes wrong they can run back to mommy and daddy. At school, children learn how to cope with adversity on their own.
3. There seems to be a lot of unstructured homeschooling families. I've heard of a type of homeschooling known as unschooling where children direct whether they want to learn or not. It seems like that is setting them up for failure. You don't always get to do want you want at work....why should school be any different?
Quoting wanderingwolf:I think it's funny how all these people are worried about 'social interaction'. There is
Religious organizations (if you're religious)
4-H
Horseback Riding
Soccer
Basketball
Tennis
Volleyball
Swimming
YMCA
Other Sports
Youth Clubs
Homeschool co-ops
Play Dates (for younger kids)
There's all sorts of opportunities out there. School is for learning, not social interaction. Kids can't express their creativity and neither can teachers as a result of the stupid No Child Left Behind Act. Teachers do nothing but teach to the state tests now of which funding for schools and teachers depends on those results. Teachers know they can be fired if their kids don't perform up to state standards.
When in the real world are you EVER going to be around the same group of people your age? NEVER, not even in college! How is it 'socializing' to sit in a classroom and ordered to be silent for 8-12 hours a day in a classroom? Then there's all the other host of issues going on in schools today (teachers fucking their students, students sleeping each other in empty classrooms/fucking each other under the bleachers at football games, bullying, gun violence, shooting up schools, drug use, smoking, drinking, gangs, cliques, girls getting into cat fights and beating the shit out of each other because some girl flaunted her ass or shook her rack at another girl's 'man', etc.).
Kids homeschooled, they can get more social interacation by being around kids and adults of different ages. They can go on vacations anytime they want whereas PS kids have to wait until summer break or maybe X-mas break. They get to experience things hands on and have time to pursue their interests and talents because they aren't stuck in a classroom for 8 hours and then 4 hours homework on top of that per class at the end of the day plus chores.
PS. Private school teachers in my state are not required to hold a degree.
Quoting virgochild79:I'm against it when I go to the grocery store at 11am and see a child who is supposed to be at school walking the aisle. I'm against it when the person doing the teaching doesn't have a degree. I'm against children not interacting with other children but instead,,,,,,they're at Target being loud and ruining my "stress free" Target shopping experience! :)
I don't do unschooling as a predominant method of hs, but again, I wouldn't knock it until I tried it...which we all as parents have done. How did you teach your child the ABC's? Through song likely. How did you teach your child manners? By example, by correcting. We all teach our children every day, whether they're at home or in public school. It's teaching math as we let our little ones handle money and pay at the grocery store. It's teaching reading through small baby steps that start with our reading to our kids and it grows from there. This is a hallmark of unschooling. You find a topic or an interest of your child and work all sorts of lessons into it in a very non-traditional way. Let's be honest, we all pay attention to something when the topic interests us, why not use that as a teaching tool? I have seen this work really well with some families.
And just because my children are in a hs group, does not mean that all the kids they socialize with are children of my choosing. That is certainly not the case. There are at least 3 off the top of my head I would rather keep them away from, but I don't because that's something they need to learn.
This is a terribly touchy topic and we are driven to defend ourselves no matter what we choose, because we feel that our parenting is being attacked based on how we choose to educate our children. Let's just be careful that our choice is not based on other people, but on our own children and ourselves. I don't not homeschool my daughter because of what I see with others or because I love her any less; I don't homeschool her because I know it would not work well for the two of us; she does better with another teacher. I do homeschool my son not because I am overbearing and love him the most, but because he was not doing well in the traditional setting.
For some traditional public school is best. Others choose private school. Others choose virtual, home or un-schooling. The point is that what works best for one child, does not work best for another. As a parent, I know that homeschool is not best for one of my daughters, but for the other 2 children right now itis. There's nothing wrong with it. As parents it is our responsibility to see that our children have the best advantages we can give them, and topping the list of that is their education.
There are many homeschoolers with children that have autism. They are doing quite well. Homeschoolers actually get more time to learn how to play with other children. Whether homeschooling would have worked would depend wholly on you. You can tailor your experience to fit with exactly what he needs.
Quoting kilroysj:Hi My name is Stephanie and this is my first time in this group.
I have a six year old son with PDD, a form of autism. His biggest issue is how to socialize with other children. He has been in school since he was 3, from early intervention, to pre-school and now in a regular Kindergarten with a TSS. Learning how play other children has helped him immensely. He is considered high functioning now. Home school would NOT have worked in this situation.
When I was in school I have seen many fellow students run to Mommy when they were in trouble. Whether a child runs to Mommy or Daddy is wholly dependent on what mommy or daddy is like. I expect my sons to listen and respect all their teachers just like they do me. I have dealt with many math and reading problems. I have so many resources available it isn't funny. If I have a question I ask another homeschooler who has had the same problem or many times I just experiment until I find the way of teaching that works. I use a variety of different methods to teach my sons including unschooling. Unschooling is not what you think it is. It is about getting kids interested in learning. I have had many jobs where I went to my boss and asked to do things a certain way. I was a hard worker so many times my boss would give me permission to do it my way. In college I was not given a major but I was able to choose one. As a unschooler I can concentrate on getting my sons to be curious about everything. The result has been quite extraordinary. My son is pretty much interested in every thing. There are some things he likes more than others. We always make sure we concentrate on the 3 R's but as a homeschooler I realize they can be learned a number of ways. Believe me my children have had to deal with a lot of adversity. They are not locked away in a bubble. I didn't go and do everything for them. If they wanted someone to play tag with then they had to make it happen. I told them what they needed to do but it was up to them to get it done.
Quoting iuangina:1. As a teacher, I don't like it because not everyone is qualified to be a teacher. I'm not arguing that everyone who gets a degree is qualified to be a teacher either, but at least they've had some training on how to deal with a reading problem or math problem.
2. I think it's important for children to learn that they have to listen and deal with people who are outside of their family in an environment where they don't have the protection of running back to their parents. I think play groups and homeschool groups are a wonderful thing for homeschooling families, but they are still protected if something goes wrong they can run back to mommy and daddy. At school, children learn how to cope with adversity on their own.
3. There seems to be a lot of unstructured homeschooling families. I've heard of a type of homeschooling known as unschooling where children direct whether they want to learn or not. It seems like that is setting them up for failure. You don't always get to do want you want at work....why should school be any different?
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- CDMelty
on Mar. 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM