Why do uneducated people homeschool?

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All the ones I know fall into either two categories: very religious who want a very strict religious curriculum or are convinced their kid is the next great Olympic athlete and has the kid in 6-8 hours of practice per day.

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Anonymous wrote:Well just for some balance and perspective, I have seen educated mothers homeschool as well. My sister homeschools her kids and went to McGill University in Montreal and is extremely smart and fluent in four languages. She is part of a homeschooling community comprised of very accomplished people. Do mothers without a higher ed pucation homeschool their kids? Yes it happens. But I don't think it should be allowed. I believe a parent should have at a minimum a Bachelor degree.

This is not relevant to OP's question. Stay on the topic.

Sure it is... what she is asking isn't completely true- plenty of educated people homeschool. I am sorry if you don't want to believe that smart people homeschool.

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*shrug* homeschoolers perform above public schoolers on pretty much every objective measure of academic achievement, parent with college degree or not.

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Anonymous wrote:All the ones I know fall into either two categories: very religious who want a very strict religious curriculum or are convinced their kid is the next great Olympic athlete and has the kid in 6-8 hours of practice per day.

I know lots of homeschool families. There is a religious element behind their decision to homeschool. Many of these families are also very educated. I have actually never encountered an uneducated homeschool mom, but don't doubt they exist.

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Why do uneducated people comment about things they don’t know anything about?

By the way, my neighbor with a PhD from Maryland homeschools. So piss off.

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My SIL “homeschooled” my niece and nephew for several years usin an online school. She said it was because their school wasn’t safe but I think she just didn’t want the kids to physically leave the house.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Go back to your home country. Don't waste your time among the backward.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

My Miami friend began homeschooling when the first day her daughter's teacher (of an A+ rated school) sent a welcome letter home that read, "And without further a due..." She was so out of there. Kid went on to Yale.

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Why do uneducated people homeschool?

Well, if your kids are arrogant pricks like you, avoiding contact with them is reason enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I have met a handful of moms in Florida who homeschool. I know for a fact they did not attend college. Their grammar is awful. I know I am not perfect myself but that's why I plan on sending my children to public or private school. Why do they homeschool? It seems so backwards. In my home country home schooling is not legal. We would see it as backwards.

Go back to your home country. Don't waste your time among the backward.

Why shouldn't s/he? We Americans do.

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Anonymous wrote:It may because the local school is not highly rated and they don't want their kids hang out with wrong crowds. Or it may be those parents enjoy being with children and teaching them.

My brother's family lives in a neighborhood where some of the schools, including the high school, have been taken over by the state. Their parish catholic school closed and merged with another, and they were unhappy with the culture of the bigger school.

They homeschool all their kids.

My SIL is not very...academic...but she knows her limitations. She uses a set curriculum for her little ones. The older ones (around middle school) use an accredited online curriculum, combined with a weekly co-op for some of the classes. The co-op they chose have mostly highly educated parents teaching the classes (engineers, college professors, etc) with fluff courses taught by hobby moms (art classes, music appreciation, that kind of thing).

They are behind where my fcps kids are in school but leaps and bounds ahead of the kids in their local zoned public school.

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Why do uneducated people homeschool?

Well, if your kids are arrogant pricks like you, avoiding contact with them is reason enough.

It's arrogant to think a college degree is necessary to educate our children?

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Anonymous wrote:

Why do uneducated people homeschool?

Well, if your kids are arrogant pricks like you, avoiding contact with them is reason enough.

It's arrogant to think a college degree is necessary to educate our children?

Yes. Bill Gates doesn’t have a college degree. Would you not let him teach your kid coding?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why do uneducated people homeschool?

Well, if your kids are arrogant pricks like you, avoiding contact with them is reason enough.

It's arrogant to think a college degree is necessary to educate our children?

Yes. Bill Gates doesn’t have a college degree. Would you not let him teach your kid coding?

He doesn't even homeschool his kids. Many homeschool claiming to homeschool but as the kids get older its basically online schooling and parents have little involvement.