Better question: Why do many EDUCATED people choose to homeschool?

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More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

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Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

Why should all the uneducated teach their kids? I didn't homeschool but, my siblings did and they are very hardworking smart kids. One of my nephews has a learning disability and the teachers did nothing to help.

[Anonymous]

Bullying, learning differences, mental health

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They want to be able to travel with their kids and can afford tutors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

Why should all the uneducated teach their kids? I didn't homeschool but, my siblings did and they are very hardworking smart kids. One of my nephews has a learning disability and the teachers did nothing to help.

Haha, best reply.

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I did it for a bit during elementary school.

I started because virtual learning was just not it. It sucked so bad for DS. I continued because it was so much fun. I love learning things and sharing what I learn with others and DS was forced to listen.

I wish I could still homeschool him but he isn’t self-directed enough to learn something through an independent study program, and I don’t have the knowledge to teach him everything he is learning now in middle school.

But yeah maybe people with advanced degrees like homeschooling because they are nerds who like learning stuff.

[Anonymous]

Many have realized they can provide a better education than their local public schools. Many elite universities look favorably upon homeschoolers (provided they’ve had a rigorous education, which can be done in many formats these days).

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Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

They believe, sometimes accurately, that they are better equipped to educate their children than schools are. I think people see things like a watered down American history curriculum or high schoolers in advanced biology who have no hands-on lab experience and think, "I can do better than that." Sometimes, they are right about that.

I was homeschooled for a year because my parents lost confidence in the school system where we lived. For me, the difference was that instead of attending 5th grade in a school that taught evolution as "one theory about where humans came from" and learning basic biology from someone with a degree in biology who wasn't teaching anyone other than me and reading books with someone who in the rest of his professional life was a literature professor. The main arguments I had against that arrangement (then and now) was that neither one of them had any actual training in elementary education, which is important when teaching elementary students, but it worked well for the year it took them to move to a district they felt better about.

I did not want to homeschool and my experience of the pandemic reinforced that that's not a kind of parenting I enjoy at all. I *can* do it, but it wasn't any fun for me and I'm sure my kids could tell. I'd rather them be educated by someone who wants to be there.

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Anonymous wrote:Bullying, learning differences, mental health

This. And read the many threads on why so many teachers are quitting. Adults can’t handle the school environment and yet we expect kids to do so. I have one kid in public school and one kid who is homeschooled using an accredited online program. I made the decision that was right for each kid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More and more people are choosing to homeschool their children, many of whom have advanced degrees. Why?

They believe, sometimes accurately, that they are better equipped to educate their children than schools are. I think people see things like a watered down American history curriculum or high schoolers in advanced biology who have no hands-on lab experience and think, "I can do better than that." Sometimes, they are right about that.

I was homeschooled for a year because my parents lost confidence in the school system where we lived. For me, the difference was that instead of attending 5th grade in a school that taught evolution as "one theory about where humans came from" and learning basic biology from someone with a degree in biology who wasn't teaching anyone other than me and reading books with someone who in the rest of his professional life was a literature professor. The main arguments I had against that arrangement (then and now) was that neither one of them had any actual training in elementary education, which is important when teaching elementary students, but it worked well for the year it took them to move to a district they felt better about.

I did not want to homeschool and my experience of the pandemic reinforced that that's not a kind of parenting I enjoy at all. I *can* do it, but it wasn't any fun for me and I'm sure my kids could tell. I'd rather them be educated by someone who wants to be there.

All teachers LOVE their jobs. And all students report being happy going to school.

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Anonymous wrote:They want to be able to travel with their kids and can afford tutors.

. This.

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So many public schools are a nightmare - constant testing and review, bland topics, young inexperienced teachers expected to teach to a wide variety of students with special needs and behavioral issues on top of the "at level" and "above level" kids. No more tracking or pulling out kids that are disruptive or struggling or need more challenge. Stressed out parents gunning for their kids constantly. The result is a watered down mess and anxiety and depression are through the roof. Considering the state of so many school systems, I can definitely see homeschooling as a continuing trend among the educated.

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My daughter was badly bullied in FCPS and the school did nothing until some girls wrote her a note telling her to kill herself. Then the incompetent school administrators outed her during the bullying investigation (“Did you say that to C because she is gay?). My daughter was having panic attacks every morning because the girls were so vicious and the school personnel so indifferent.

That was the final straw after years of disappointing experiences with FCPS. It’s not like the education before that was anything special despite my daughter being in AAP - trailer classrooms, overcrowded classes, lunches at 10 am, 1 1/2 counselors for 1000 kids, way too much online “math.” Then those ridiculous educational packets during the pandemic.

Private is too expensive so we homeschool using a combination of coop classes and online classes. She will start dual enrollment next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Many have realized they can provide a better education than their local public schools. Many elite universities look favorably upon homeschoolers (provided they’ve had a rigorous education, which can be done in many formats these days).

Every single home schooling family I know did it for the above reason, not for religion, and for the cases I know about the students ended up very well educated indeed with admits to Cambridge (UK), UVa Nursing, VT Engineering, and T20 US universities.

[Anonymous]

We could not make it work logistically, but I really wish we could homeschool ours.