You must have amazing shoulder muscles from how quickly you dig your own grave. |
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NP here. Why is someone being older and less smart than you an automatic reason to attack them, as you claim you’re doing? |
I mean if someone is speaking to a group….. pretty much, yup! You don’t interrupt unless you raise your hand and are called on, or equivalent. Do you regularly interrupt speakers who are speaking to a group? |
Yup. Being able to socialize with and navigate within one’s peer group is an important skill. No one wants to talk to a ten year old for an hour during a cocktail party. |
🙄 “Karen” isn’t the catch all epithet for anyone who annoys you. “Do better.” |
Bottom line how could homeschooling be better?
Most homeschoolers are not educated in all subjects. How does one teach advanced math, physics, chem etc? Especially from a religious perspective. It is not possible. |
I follow homeschooler moms on tiktok because I think it's weird and interesting how they are depriving their children of the regular school experience.
I know it's anecdotal, but not one of these moms is highly educated. One is a community college dropout. The confidence of the foolish! |
As a homeschooling parent I can only shake my head at the idea that some non-homeschoolers know us primarily through tiktok. Oy vey |
This site is the only place I've heard of actually educated parents homeschooling. Like you, I normally hear about people who barely graduated HS trying to homeschool... Not a great recipe for an educated well rounded young person. I'm all in favor of Masters or PHD homeschooling their kids - they actually understand material and have been taught by a variety of teachers, which is a great lens. But SAHM of 5 who's highest paid job was a bowling alley waitress? Ehhh maybe you should let actual teachers take a stab. |
I knew a guy who was functionally illiterate and home schooled his kids. Their schooling seemed to consist mainly of cleaning the kennels and exercising foxhounds. This was in a state with little to no oversight of home schooling.
I knew someone else who was home schooled until high school, when she took classes at the community college. Both of her parents had mental illness and she took care of them and had a really decent job. When we went to visit her, her parents kept in touch with her by walkie talkie when we went out to eat. Her daily stress levels were unreal. So those are my experiences with a sample of hardly any. |
Hence weird. |
They come from a variety of backgrounds (usually extreme in one way or another , rarely from parents who are “basic”- not that it’s a bad thing for parents not to be “basic”- most highly interesting individuals are not!) but one thing they share is a lack of experience with group socialization and learning to conform when appropriate. Not everyone in a society can be an orchid and solely focus on what is interesting to them day in and day out. |
Something I personally have found interesting with homeschooled kids is that girls tend to have better outcome than boys. I don't know why that is, they seem to integrate into society more smoothly (get normal jobs in adulthood, get married etc.) compared to boys. So I feel sorry for boys who are homeschooled (esp if the reason is religious) but hey that is just my 2 cents. |
I know several reasonable highly educated homeschooling families. Good for them.
I am concerned about lack of oversight for homeschooled kids writ large. My own SN kid struggles in school but also has a significant PDA profile. High IQ. ASD/ADHD/Dyslexia. She will not do school work for us. Ever. I am a teacher with a masters degree in education. We will not homeschool because it would not work for us AT ALL. I can’t tell you the number of times well-meaning people recommend homeschooling to us when I relate my child’s challenges. It’s really not for everybody and the parents’ educational level is only one factor. Temperament plays a huge role - both for the parent and the students. Also I really wanted to believe that quality public schools could serve all students until I watched them fail my child even as I stood at the sidelines with experts, advocates, and reports. It is way too easy to slip through the cracks in a large system like MCPS - even with involved parents. We are now private school parents - much to my own surprise. I still want public schools to be better for all kinds of kids. |