Hollywood Actress: Why I Homeschool My Kids

The Daily Signal ^ | November 9, 2017 | Sam Sorbo

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

My name is Sam Sorbo. I’m a mom to three wonderful children, and the author of “They’re YOUR Kids: An Inspirational Journey from Self-Doubter to Home School Advocate.”

Home schooling seems like a radical idea—but only because we are conditioned to think of it that way. Why? Because most of us attended school. But after nine overhauls of our public education system in less than 30 years, according to Pew Research Center data, the U.S. has fallen in world standings for education, to 39th in math and 24th in reading. We are officially behind Estonia. … The schools aren’t getting the job done.

If you feel incapable of teaching your own children it’s because you were taught that you were not capable. Don’t handicap your child by insisting on sending her to an institution for eight hours a day.

We need to rethink education in this country. My mission is to empower parents to be the lead learners for their children. I say lead learner because education is not about downloading information into the child. Education should focus on how to learn, not what. Especially in today’s economic environment, where technological advances change the business landscape so quickly, we need elasticity in our abilities, and that comes from being able to teach ourselves.

But instead, public schools teach children that they must be in a classroom with an instructor to learn. This predicated the snowflake crisis in our universities, where young people feel “triggered” by diverse ideas. They only know what they’ve been taught, and cannot think for themselves, so anything that challenges their worldview is perceived as hostile, and they lose their self-confidence and self-control.

Public school forms a wedge between the child and the parent—that’s inevitable.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.

...public schools teach children that they must be in a classroom with an instructor to learn. This predicated the snowflake crisis in our universities, where young people feel “triggered” by diverse ideas. They only know what they’ve been taught, and cannot think for themselves, so anything that challenges their worldview is perceived as hostile, and they lose their self-confidence and self-control. Public school forms a wedge between the child and the parent

[gattaca]

What homeschooling program do you use? My daughter is researching these.

[pinkandgreenmom]

A great place to start with how to provide a rigorous education at home is Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well Trained Mind. It is a how to manual and includes lots of curriculum suggestions. The book is available at most libraries.

I use a mishmash of different programs. But for the things I mentioned, I use Mr. D Math (he teaches at our co-op but it is available as an online class), Notgrass for history/civics, and Art of Argument and Discovery of Deduction from Classical Academic Press for logic.

You can always freep mail me with any questions - I’m always happy to talk about homeschooling

[gattaca]

Thanks for the info!

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

She had a great radio show! I was hoping maybe she still had a show and I just could no longer hear it locally.