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Says a lot about the value of a teaching degree doesn’t it?
Maybe if teachers were actually taught how to teach instead of being taught how to find patients for the behavioral modification lobby.....
What about the children's socialization?
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“Poorly educated parents who choose to teach their children at home produce better academic results for their children than public schools do. One study we reviewed found that students taught at home by mothers who never finished high school scored a full 55 percentage points higher than public school students from families with comparable education levels.”
***Worth repeating so I don’t have to search for who wrote it.
We (90% my wife) have been homeschooling for over 6 years now. While she does the majority do the enabling and supporting and, when I can, the teaching.
Free to do what we want when we want. Were not tied to a school calander, we don’t have our kids learning from Johnny Rotten, and Ze State does not indoctrinate with Adam and Steve in stead of our world view.
Geee. they test in the 95th percentile against Public school in the 78th percentile against Private school, we test every year when the state does not and look at the test as a test of US NOT the student.
Involved like crazy in many out of home and local town sports, organizations and clubs, they are more active as students than we were in public school 30 years ago.
The state hates home school, the NEA hates home school, Liberals as a group hate home school and certainly it would be curtailed as a right and an option under any liberal in power.
From 25 + Year Home Schoolers
Trumpet this far and wide.
Whether or not you are home schooling your own children (and especially if you are a property owner being forced to help pay for public education through your property taxes):
I suggest getting printed copies of this and mailing them to every member of your local school board, and the principals of the schools in your local district.
Also, make sure that the people at the top of your state education departments read this. Ask for your GOVERNOR’S reply, as well as from your representatives in your state legislature.
Someone has already hit on the TRUTH that the education degrees being awarded today at university level mean less than zero, except, perhaps by those who have seen through the zoo system of public education and have made a conscious decision to educate children rather than indoctrinate them.
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Hs’ing for 11 years now!
And here in Washington the state figures in home schooling and private schools into their aggregate scores on how well the public schools are doing thereby raising the numbers ... if those two were not entered in the state run schools would be in the tank as far as grades go ....
Maybe they are finally catching on.
In the future, I would like to see a multimedia, interactive home schooling curriculum far more advanced than what is available out there now.
It is very hard for parents to be fully skilled in most curriculum studies, so such multimedia could help fill in the gaps, and also expand studies with electives. Far more than just watching a movie, such instruction should be like one on one tutoring, with continual feedback from the student, as well as review and evaluation.
Students would profit by being able to see hundreds of images, both still and video, as examples, rather than just a single book image surrounded by text. This would be a great help both for contextualization and retention. And, by providing “higher density” learning on some subjects, more time is available for more intellectually demanding subjects.
Multilingualism could be integrated into such studies, so the student is learning two subjects at once.
Of course it would not diminish the role of the home studies teacher. Just provide them some more needed support.
you folks are all wrong. teachers need to make more money for all they do.
The socialists in the socialist run government public school systems are not going to like this one bit!
This took a study? C’mon, everyone knew that the rich kids in the suburbs were doing just fine in public schools, and subsequently in college. It’s always been the public schools in the poorer areas that were circling the drain. There is nothing but room for improvement when you homeschool in such a situation.
I’ve been home schooling two of my grandchildren for a number of years. Sometimes, it’s a struggle. Yet I would rather struggle than put them into the local indoctrination system. WE have far too many activities going on right now.
Probably because they love their kids and want them to do better than they did in life, and they know the public schools don't really care.
$4,000 a year to homeschool?
I think we cracked $1,000 one year with four kids in school. Our oldest is a senior. Conservatively, we have not spent for 12 years to educate between one and four students what some districts pay for one kid per year.
One way of reading this which is less flattering to homeschooling, and certainly may have value, is simply to note that parents who homeschool are committed to their children's educations. Whether they are in affluent suburbs or in inner cities. From that POV the existence of the homeschool is simply a symptom of the failure of some public schools, especially prevalent where low parental education is most common.I.e., everyone is, on average, getting the kind of public school they demand, and deserve - "everyone is concerned about the public schools but satisfied with their own school." And if your demand is higher than that of your neighbors, your only recourse is to use some educational option other than public school.
The people who founded the United States, wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were primarily home-schooled.