Posted on 04/06/2013 4:15:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann, a pediatrician with St. Louis Children's Hospital, posted a list of “18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children” earlier this week, and the response has stunned the doctor and hospital.
Since it was posted on Monday, the article was viewed roughly a quarter-million times, tweeted and pinned on Pinterest thousands of times, according to a hospital news release.
Her essay addresses many of her own reservations before committing to homeschooling, and includes benefits such as spending less time homeschooling each day than they used to spend driving to and from various schools. She also notes that they began to consider it as an option because her family couldn't afford private education for four children.
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hear, hear!
One of the stats thrown around is that children receive only 2 hours/day of actual instruction in public schools. I believe it based on my kids experiences before we started homeschooling.
Ping
Once you teach them discipline and the fun of learning, the later years should be much easier.
Tremendous amounts of time in government schools is wasted, and quite a bit is spent on indoctrination, intentional or not.
Given one of my children could not focus in the midst of chaos, the actual work time of public school is zilch.
The other one could fall asleep in a busy fire house. If he wants to focus, he can block out all the stupid around him.
Yes! John Dewey's nonsense about "socializing" was just so much blather designed to guilt parents into, well, socialism. Children look up to and revere their older siblings, parents, and grandparents. They are the ones who will teach the children to get along in the world.
Putting them in a room -- at 5 years of age -- with a little bunch of heathens does them no good at all. Yet, the "socialization" myth lives on.
We found that you can let a child read a book but it doesn’t have the same impact as giving them hands on. I have a five year old grandson loves math and we teach him with his toy monster trucks. He has caught on and he enjoys his learning time.
Younger children learn from older...”
I attended a one room country school. Twenty-five kids, one teacher, eight rows of desks, grades one through eight. We all studied the same subjects at the same time, just at a different level so got to listen to what the eighth graders were learning while I was just a first grade student. My parents remembered that I could multiply two digit numbers before I could ever master subtraction.
18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children
ping!
There is no question that our boys did better, far better, at home than they would have at the --- we call it "desk school." When they finally entered the Public School system, the payoff was seeing them strong, independent of peer pressure, going their own way.
This is something my husband and I did right! :o)
On Fox news tonight, a Justice Dept. spokesman said that there is no right to homeschool. This was in connection with the case of the German family whose children were taken away because they homeschool them. They immigrated to the USA, but the DOJ is now trying to kick them out because the Obama administration does not think children belong to their parents but to the government.
The next stop for the case is the Supreme Court. Home schoolers better be working and praying and getting ready to march on Washington with their children to protest this atrocity.
I work full-time at a high level professional position, my husband works part-time as a consultant. We have homeschooled our children, and the reality is juggling all of this is 100x better than our children being in school. The truth is at the high school level they are able to complete a course that takes a full semester in school in one month or less at home. There is so much wasted time in the school day. If a child focuses they could literally compete what is required in high school in one year at home. Public school...our tax dollars being pi**ed away every day in America.
What astounds me is that the Justice Department is spending tens of thousands of dollars to try to deny asylum to one family from Germany, yet they are more than willing to let illegal immigrants out of jail supposedly because they don't have sufficient funds in the budget to keep them in custody. But they sure don't have trouble finding the money to persecute a home schooling family.
That says all you need to know about the priorities of our government.
—— Children look up to and revere their older siblings, parents, and grandparents. They are the ones who will teach the children to get along in the world. ——
There are soooooo many advantages to homeschooling, but this is one I have been thinking of lately. Our children have spent their best hours, and most of their time, with their parents. They have learned from us, for good or ill. But at least they can say they know their parents.
My parents died when I was in my early twenties. I often think of how little time I spent with them, outside of, “How was school today?” “Alright.”
-— The next stop for the case is the Supreme Court. Home schoolers better be working and praying and getting ready to march on Washington with their children to protest this atrocity.——
Oh crap, I didn’t catch that.
Totalitarianism is difficult to imagine without compulsory schooling.
When my wife started homeschooling our two children she put together a teaching plan that she swore the kids would not be able to accomplish. She was basing it on the amount of material that was given to them in the schools. Once the kids realized the rest of the day was theirs if they completed their school work, they blew through the lessons in a couple hours each day. So my wife started out thinking she was going to have to scale back and instead she significantly increased the amount of material to cover. Our children didn’t complain and as long as we let them set their daily schedule.
What did they do with the extra time? Socialized with their other homeschool friends a good bit, but music, art, learning computer skills and reading filled a lot of their extra hours.
When they went off to college they had the discipline and knowledge to really excel and they have.
I wish everyone was in the situation to that they could afford to homeschool their children. A family health crisis started us on that road and I thank the Lord for sending us down it.
—— Once the kids realized the rest of the day was theirs if they completed their school work, they blew through the lessons in a couple hours each day ——
Same experience here.
The same thing could happen in school. As soon as a child passed a test, he could move on. How much more focused and motivated would students be?
I had one course like this in college (lectures on videotape and quizzes that could be taken anytime, and as many times as necessary to pass), and finished it in half the normal time.
So you have to ask yourself, Why aren’t schools structured this way?
The idea of student-hours, or Carnegie units, originated with Carnegie’s ham-fisted, mechanical approach to education.
But why hasn’t this system been abandoned? I contend that it is because the object of compulsory schooling isn’t education, but the normalization of specific habits and beliefs.
And babysitting.
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