A Harvard homeschool expert says he's 'not convinced schools should ever have closed'

MSN / Insider ^ | May 22, 2020 | Eleanor Goldberg Fox

[Tired of Taxes]

Real homeschooling is when you buy or create your own curriculum.

So true. Real homeschooling is parent-led.

What's happening now is distance learning or public-school-at-home: The school dictates to the parents and children; teachers tell them what to do, when to do it.

In real homeschooling, families have more control over their own schedule.

[Tired of Taxes]

I haven't been paying attention to Sweden, so thanks for the link to the article.

.witness Sweden, the non-thinking conservative's Coronavirus poster child country. "they didn't lock down...they didn't destroy their economy and kids stayed in school...we shoulda done what THEY did."

Funny - isn't it? - how people believe that shutting down a public school building is taking away someone's freedom.

With public school, the state dictates what, when, and how the students will learn. If you don't pay your school taxes, the town/county/state can take your house.
If your child doesn't attend school, you face truancy charges and possible jail time. That doesn't sound like freedom to me. LOL.

[Drew68]

Another hit piece. They must be scared.

Hit piece notwithstanding, shutting down the schools and sending the kids home was pure idiocy. Almost no children and very few teachers would be considered high-risk.

[DoodleBob]

Sweden has been a raging point of debate regarding COVID-19 on FR and elsewhere. Many conservatives think their 'hands off' approach should have been adopted in the US. It's much more complicated than that - to be sure SE got some things right but it's largely because their people willfully trust the 'science' of the govt. Had their govt said shutdown was solid science, you know, like their senior climate scientist 16yr old Greta, they'd have shut down.

[Trillian]

I’ve been through that system and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It’s why I homeschool mine.

[Concentrate]

“I’m not sure how nessarcy schools are in the digital age.”

Apparently, not quite as nessarcy as previously thought.

[Tired of Taxes]

Schools are where kids catch everything.

No complaint from me about gov’t shutting down public schools (and anything else run by gov’t).

Just wish we’d get a refund on the school taxes.

[nonsporting]

Thank you.

It is NOT homeschooling. It is gov’t schooling at home.

[Tired of Taxes]

I see what you mean.

[The Pack Knight]

Dwyer is the same lunatic who recently claimed that the “reason parent-child relationships exist is because the state confers legal parenthood.” If you skim his other writing, you can see more about his views on family law. Like the idea that parental rights should be entirely disregarded and that there should be no legal preference for biological parents to raise their own children. Basically, that the state should be able to take children from their parents and assign them to others based on a court’s determination of the child’s “best interest” without regard to the rights of the parents.

Fortunately, Harvard Law grads rarely go on to practice family law, so hopefully the damage done by this clown will be limited.

[Tired of Taxes]

Thanks for the info. Interesting how the news article didn’t mention any of that other stuff, probably because most people would reject his ideas then.

[starsandstrips]

I experienced many harmful abuses thru public school. I dropped out, went to college. Got college degree, married and had Child. I home schooled her in secret. She then attended College as I did. She is now a college professor and a mom of 2 girls that we are Home Schooling!!!

The very best way to go! Learning that learning is a gift of Life!