Not qualified how? I had no idea how to teach reading and baby math, but I figured it out, AS CAN ANYONE ELSE. There are many curricula that take you through teaching any subject step by step. So, even if a parent is marginally literate, which is the average for government school teachers, you can figure it out. Of course, I didn’t teach high level subjects like “gender studies” and “queer pronouns”, but, despite this deficiency, two of my sons are Ph.D. candidates in hard science/engineering and the third is doing bioengineering entering his junior year.
Do you think first time parents are “unqualified”? After all, they have no experience. How could they possibly figure out what to do with something as delicate and complicated as a baby?
ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO CAN HOMESCHOOL. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES (Don’t give me the single mom/both parents work BS. I know plenty in both categories who do or have homeschooled.)
Oh, yeah, your suburban and rural schools are not ‘different’. The teachers are all trained in the same university cesspool, the textbooks (if any are used) and curricula are controlled by the state, overall standards are controlled by the state, and the same woketard laws and judicial decisions apply to your government child abuse centers, too.
“Not qualified how?”
Agree - anyone capable of writing coherent sentences here is capable of home schooling. More likely it’s a confidence problem, not capability problem.
You’re singing to the choir. I’m just saying what I’ve been told by family. They feel unqualified to teach their kids. They seem frozen with fear.
I have tried explaining options are available if you think you cannot teach a specific discipline but the fear of failure and I think the biggest fear is if they fail, what may the state try to do to the parent.
That frustrates the Hell out of me. Kids would be so much better off being homeschooled. And considering just the costs alone, we can do much better.
And, the Covidiots took the opportunity to screw up the delivery of education during the lockdowns that saw a dramatic increase in youth suicides, especially of young girls, that has scared some parents to death and they will never try homeschooling.
Damn shame.
I homeschooled both boys from elementary school through high school. High school is the only time things got a little complicated - chemistry and calculus mainly.
The thing is, at least for us with homeschooling, we didn’t just teach them facts but how to learn and how to get answers. So when they got stuck, they either did the research and found the answer on their own or with us. There are so many resources online it is crazy. And there are a la carte online courses or DVD courses to use for certain subjects (if you don’t want to pay for a whole program).
It’s very doable… my younger son is getting his degree in accounting now, which can get pretty complicated, but he is using the same skills to get help on topics when the professor or textbook is not clear.
HSLDA did research a few years back that showed that the parent’s education level had no bearing on the academic outcome of homeschooled kids. The one on one and immediate feedback to ensure concepts were being understood was a far better predictor.
Our daughter homeschools her 4 children. Ages 11-2. She didn’t have a college degree. She uses two Christian based programs one is Abekkah and one is My Father’s world. They all are doing well, the little one does activities of course for his age or she puts on video for him. She limits TV times, only watch what she approves of, etc. One income family.
I taught my 6-year-old whose teacher said he was learning disabled in math and reading. Used all the 2-4 letter books I learned to read from, and in 6 weeks, 1 paddle, he was reading beyond grade level. His dad wrote code for the old Commodore we had, for math flashcards, 6 weeks later doing math beyond grade level. Only took 2 paddlings to underscore YOU WILL LEARN. I’d say we had a Teacher problem, not a learning issue, that would get the school more $$$.