Why do uneducated people homeschool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*shrug* I homeschooled without a college degree. Anyone who went through the K-12 system and thinks that they are "unqualified" to teach an elementary schooler really doesn't have a whole lot of confidence in their own education. I mean, really... Obviously I am not qualified to teach high school courses with the depth and breadth required, which is why almost all homeschooling parents - including myself - use outside curricula, outside classes, and other resources to facilitate learning those subjects. But a kindergartner? Second grader? What kind of qualifications do you think you need? Remember that it isn't about teaching a room filled with elementary schoolers from all different home situations and all different needs, which is what teachers are educated to do. It's about teaching your OWN child. What happens when they turn five that makes it impossible to teach them? Most of us taught our own infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children how to speak, use the potty, describe things, use scissors, climb up and down trees and the jungle gym, blow bubbles, help with simple chores, and all the rest. Suddenly we are unqualified when they get to school age?

Nailed it.

Children are expected to learn A LOT more in kindergarten than we were. Some parents can do this well and some parents can't. And some parents WILL do this well, but some WON'T. This summarizes pretty well current expectations:

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/2955444-home-school-public-school-8.html#ixzz5OecKAZkR
https://www.k5learning.com/blog/what-kids-learn-kindergarten

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*shrug* I homeschooled without a college degree. Anyone who went through the K-12 system and thinks that they are "unqualified" to teach an elementary schooler really doesn't have a whole lot of confidence in their own education. I mean, really... Obviously I am not qualified to teach high school courses with the depth and breadth required, which is why almost all homeschooling parents - including myself - use outside curricula, outside classes, and other resources to facilitate learning those subjects. But a kindergartner? Second grader? What kind of qualifications do you think you need? Remember that it isn't about teaching a room filled with elementary schoolers from all different home situations and all different needs, which is what teachers are educated to do. It's about teaching your OWN child. What happens when they turn five that makes it impossible to teach them? Most of us taught our own infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children how to speak, use the potty, describe things, use scissors, climb up and down trees and the jungle gym, blow bubbles, help with simple chores, and all the rest. Suddenly we are unqualified when they get to school age?

Nailed it.

Children are expected to learn A LOT more in kindergarten than we were. Some parents can do this well and some parents can't. And some parents WILL do this well, but some WON'T. This summarizes pretty well current expectations:

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/2955444-home-school-public-school-8.html#ixzz5OecKAZkR
https://www.k5learning.com/blog/what-kids-learn-kindergarten

Assuming a parent wants to keep their kindergartner "on grade level" as the public school system defines it, and in my experience, most homeschoolers don't care about that in the younger grades, I am certain that any reasonably intelligent parent with a 12th grade education could teach their child how to print letters, how to sound out words, how to do simple addition and subtraction, what a calendar is and how it works, and so on. What is on that list doesn't look any different than what I learned in kindergarten, though... in my district, they are supposed to be reading on what used to be a first-grade level. Some are developmentally able to do this and some are not.

In general, homeschooling parents don't worry about whether a child learns to read at 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 years old. I have one who read at 7 and one who read at 9... one will graduate this coming spring, and the other one two years later. It's really not as hard as it might seem if you've never done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*shrug* I homeschooled without a college degree. Anyone who went through the K-12 system and thinks that they are "unqualified" to teach an elementary schooler really doesn't have a whole lot of confidence in their own education. I mean, really... Obviously I am not qualified to teach high school courses with the depth and breadth required, which is why almost all homeschooling parents - including myself - use outside curricula, outside classes, and other resources to facilitate learning those subjects. But a kindergartner? Second grader? What kind of qualifications do you think you need? Remember that it isn't about teaching a room filled with elementary schoolers from all different home situations and all different needs, which is what teachers are educated to do. It's about teaching your OWN child. What happens when they turn five that makes it impossible to teach them? Most of us taught our own infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children how to speak, use the potty, describe things, use scissors, climb up and down trees and the jungle gym, blow bubbles, help with simple chores, and all the rest. Suddenly we are unqualified when they get to school age?

Nailed it.

Children are expected to learn A LOT more in kindergarten than we were. Some parents can do this well and some parents can't. And some parents WILL do this well, but some WON'T. This summarizes pretty well current expectations:

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/2955444-home-school-public-school-8.html#ixzz5OecKAZkR
https://www.k5learning.com/blog/what-kids-learn-kindergarten

Interesting you should include a link for an online (ho eschool) program. This is DCum, a forum for the Washington mtro area, the majority of homeschooling parents in this area undoubtedly know how to research and provide a typical course of study for their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*shrug* I homeschooled without a college degree. Anyone who went through the K-12 system and thinks that they are "unqualified" to teach an elementary schooler really doesn't have a whole lot of confidence in their own education. I mean, really... Obviously I am not qualified to teach high school courses with the depth and breadth required, which is why almost all homeschooling parents - including myself - use outside curricula, outside classes, and other resources to facilitate learning those subjects. But a kindergartner? Second grader? What kind of qualifications do you think you need? Remember that it isn't about teaching a room filled with elementary schoolers from all different home situations and all different needs, which is what teachers are educated to do. It's about teaching your OWN child. What happens when they turn five that makes it impossible to teach them? Most of us taught our own infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children how to speak, use the potty, describe things, use scissors, climb up and down trees and the jungle gym, blow bubbles, help with simple chores, and all the rest. Suddenly we are unqualified when they get to school age?

Nailed it.

Children are expected to learn A LOT more in kindergarten than we were. Some parents can do this well and some parents can't. And some parents WILL do this well, but some WON'T. This summarizes pretty well current expectations:

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/2955444-home-school-public-school-8.html#ixzz5OecKAZkR
https://www.k5learning.com/blog/what-kids-learn-kindergarten

Interesting you should include a link for an online (ho eschool) program. This is DCum, a forum for the Washington mtro area, the majority of homeschooling parents in this area undoubtedly know how to research and provide a typical course of study for their children.

Why would you assume that? Based on what I read on this message board I think most people in the DC metropolitan area are low-grade morons.

[Anonymous]

Public schools are great if you have perfectly homogenized kids who hit all of their "milestones" perfectly on time. Public schools are fine if your children don't annoy their teachers, other kids, and ironically other parents.

Public and private school both suck.

I'm not qualified to home school and I'm not Mr. Fantastic, but for those who are I support you 100%, because public schools really do suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cleaning woman home schools. She is uneducated but her children are all going to colleges. I think this is partly a reaction to public middle and high schools, which have all but abandoned kids who aren't in the top tier.

Homeschooling really isn't that hard. It can all be done online; you just need an invested parent who is willing to make sure that the kid is actually putting forth effort and progressing in the lessons, which most homeschooling parents are on top of. Yes, it's not the perfect way to learn, but neither is being in a classroom with 20+ kids.

[Anonymous]

I have an uneducated SIL that lives in FL who did this. Both kids didn’t attend college and both still live with her in their 30,s.

[Anonymous]

I personally know a woman who is extremely smart but also extremely socially awkward. Her husband painfully so. These two decided to “unschool” their two children. The oldest is 9.5, cannot really read, but understands some high level chemistry and math and is therefore “gifted”. It boggles my mind, but I’m also interested how it will all unfold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several home schooling kids in our area have gone to top Ivy league universities, including two to Harvard on full scholarship. We live in a university town in Appalachia where there is a VERY strong home schooling organization that crosses the lines between religious and non religious families. They offer a huge support network, classes in advanced subjects, choirs, sports teams, drama: the works. I'm not doing it but not knocking it either. I do think annual testing is necessary to make sure kids aren't just being neglected or chained to beds and starved.

just so you know, full scholarships at Ivy schools are 100% based on need. This scholarship just acknowledges that the parents aren't rich, not that the kid is more special than their other admits

[Anonymous]

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.

Because it is a free country. I don't understand what does people like you who think that it is better in your country doing here?

[Anonymous]

Because they are stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally know a woman who is extremely smart but also extremely socially awkward. Her husband painfully so. These two decided to “unschool” their two children. The oldest is 9.5, cannot really read, but understands some high level chemistry and math and is therefore “gifted”. It boggles my mind, but I’m also interested how it will all unfold.

My sister’s husband’s sister did this with her kid and when they went to enroll in HS in the area she was so far behind she had to go down a grade. She also resented the hell out of her crazy @ss parents. Now a married adult, has a poor relationship with them.

That’s how the only case I know played out.

[Anonymous]

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.

Most likely, people in your country need to show a valid ID in order to vote.

Not here.

Welcome to the USA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't home-educated children held to the same minimum standards as public school students? I'm European and it's illegal in almost all European countries. This is absurd.

I agree with this smart Europeans. A lot of Americans are white trash and too dumb to know how dumb they are. They voted for Trump. Their poor kids will grow up uneducated.

[Anonymous]

Because they're ignorant. That's all there is to it.