Homeschool.....should it be illegal

[Anonymous]

Homeschooling is a great if done correctly your child can at early age learn stem , business , Multilanguage , and so much more. Your little one can do skills that in a public school setting or private school wouldn't be introduce to them until years later. You can also use all 365 days a learning days where you can actively be learning and can also shape your method of teaching by how your child learns for example if kids is hands on vs visual. You child can also form own views and opinions if encouraged by you which in public school setting if your views differ from teacher you will get marked down or worst never taught a topic because it can possibly offend some subset group which may not even go to your child's school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It becomes an issue when parents are 'phoning it in' and NOT educating children or at least not providing basic and well rounded education. That is robbing that child of any chance at a future/higher education.
Yes, there are some parents who are great at homeschooling, but there is a large pool nationwide that is just not. NOt at all and those kids deserve better. More regulations and oversight is needed.

I feel the same way about the high school in Washington DC which my home is zoned to. Only 3% of students are even considered on grade level.

[Anonymous]

Where is your data for this "large pool" of people who are bad at homeschooling?

[Anonymous]

It should not be illegal.

Actually, public schools should be forced to spend money to have home school programs. For example, some school districts arrange for monthly review by teacher, file your paperwork for the state and etc.

We pay property taxes. We should have access to some of those funds to pay for our curriculum. And the supervision monitoring would be great for child welfare issues as well. Access to standardized testing should be available.

[Anonymous]

Based on our IB Middle School options, homeschooling is sounding more and more like a solid option. There are so many resources available now to keep them on track with their peers, and it affords them the option to pursue a lot of what DC has to offer. There's also a strong homeschool community here that makes it rather attractive. If the lottery fails us, homeschooling is going to become a very serious consideration for our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I homeschool -I’m normal. My child is gifted and has learning issues. He was bullied in his expensive private school and developed such severe anxiety, he was having breakdowns at the end of each day and begging to never go back.

We spent a long time trying to work with the well-intentioned yet clueless school but my eventually my son needed a break— he does need help with social, skills but regular school was making this area worse, not better and I began to fear that he was going to eventually harm himself.

This is a pretty common story among homeschoolers.

+1

Ditto. So sad that twice exceptional children are treated this way. So common for them to be homeschooled

[Anonymous]

Shouldn't the REAL question here be: "Why do parents allow their kids to be in detrimental situations in their schools by keeping them in that environment???" This could apply to bullying, sexual or emotional abuse by students or staff, unhealthy school environments, poor influences, etc., etc. We should all be fighting for the rights of parents to protect their children and home educate them if necessary. Being *forced* to send your children to a government establishment determined by zip code and zoning daily is wrong and immoral. We should have options and utilize them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should not be banned as it can be a great option for some kids/families but it should definitely be better regulated.

+1. This. There’s very limited supervision in most states for homeschools. There should be some occasional checks by the Government so they can verify kids aren’t being kept home to be abused.

All they would have to do is open up after school activities to homeschoolers and require each kid to pick one activity to participate in a year. But no - the schools are mad that homeschoolers spurned their public school so they bar them.
Having kids participating in a school activity would help blunt any hatred being taught by the parents (or vice versa) and expose the kids to different viewpoints and children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't the REAL question here be: "Why do parents allow their kids to be in detrimental situations in their schools by keeping them in that environment???" This could apply to bullying, sexual or emotional abuse by students or staff, unhealthy school environments, poor influences, etc., etc. We should all be fighting for the rights of parents to protect their children and home educate them if necessary. Being *forced* to send your children to a government establishment determined by zip code and zoning daily is wrong and immoral. We should have options and utilize them.

Yes, well, some people home educate kids to keep them away from ‘bad things’ like other races, different religions, different viewpoints (evolution? ), different abilities and acceptance of things such as being gay. That’s not healthy for the kids and it’s not fair in the least to the child.

I homeschooled one of my kids so please don’t deny it, you must see it too. Often the kids are protected from ‘not being carbon copies of Mom and dad or Mom and dad’s perfect image of how things should be’. Some homeschooling environments - especially those where the parents strive to never let the kids think for themselves or go out and live their own lives - are like creating a permanent prison for the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Homeschooling is a great if done correctly your child can at early age learn stem , business , Multilanguage , and so much more. Your little one can do skills that in a public school setting or private school wouldn't be introduce to them until years later. You can also use all 365 days a learning days where you can actively be learning and can also shape your method of teaching by how your child learns for example if kids is hands on vs visual. You child can also form own views and opinions if encouraged by you which in public school setting if your views differ from teacher you will get marked down or worst never taught a topic because it can possibly offend some subset group which may not even go to your child's school.

I know - learning stem is good but who is teaching it? I actually spent years studying and working in a ‘stem’ field and when I enthusiastically offered to come help and participate in a stem related activity that was related from my job I received no invitation. No interest at all from the parents. Parents had no stem background or education at all. I was not impressed. It’s a free country so do what you want but don’t ask me to worship homeschoolers as if they great and doing a better job than established schools because I never saw that.

[Anonymous]

Yes, unless the parent has a college degree. Even then, there needs to be better checks and balances.

I know of too many homeschool parents who are unqualified. These are the seriously religious ones who only teach some science that doesn’t disagree with the Bible. One’s child even struggled and flunked out when they attended a college just for homeschool kids.

[Anonymous]

Homeschooling could be great if done by qualified parents in certain circumstances. Unfortunately, there's lots of bad examples. In those cases, it attracts the abusive and paranoid types of people who have no business homeschooling. It's one of the vestiges of American pioneering culture from the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't the REAL question here be: "Why do parents allow their kids to be in detrimental situations in their schools by keeping them in that environment???" This could apply to bullying, sexual or emotional abuse by students or staff, unhealthy school environments, poor influences, etc., etc. We should all be fighting for the rights of parents to protect their children and home educate them if necessary. Being *forced* to send your children to a government establishment determined by zip code and zoning daily is wrong and immoral. We should have options and utilize them.

Yes, well, some people home educate kids to keep them away from ‘bad things’ like other races, different religions, different viewpoints (evolution? ), different abilities and acceptance of things such as being gay. That’s not healthy for the kids and it’s not fair in the least to the child.

I homeschooled one of my kids so please don’t deny it, you must see it too. Often the kids are protected from ‘not being carbon copies of Mom and dad or Mom and dad’s perfect image of how things should be’. Some homeschooling environments - especially those where the parents strive to never let the kids think for themselves or go out and live their own lives - are like creating a permanent prison for the child.

Um, that's not what I was talking about at all. Why are you trying to hijack my thought? I'm talking about parents who let their child be in a horrible school environment, most commonly bullying. Their kid gets physically and emotionally abused and they are "stuck" sending their child to their zoned school. What the heck is wrong with those parents? Get your child out of there before there is permanent damage! Let's make sure we as parents have the right to do so.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not - it’s not always easy but it can be vital. I started homeschooling during the pandemic because my dad could have died if he’d got it due to various health conditions, if I had been going to school either he would’ve caught it or I’d have to be self isolating from my family 24/7. It’s been hard because I’ve lost almost all the socialization I was getting at school and now only talk to my friends online but I’d prefer that to a dead dad. Plus homeschooling suits me, I hated going in to school towards the end and I was very close to an extreme mental health crisis.

Homeschooling isn’t perfect and I’m lonely but it’s not the worst thing that could have happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure a parent drowned a kid once in a pool, should pools be illegal?

I'm pretty sure a parent (through deliberate action or criminal negligence) caused a vehicle crash in which a child died, should all vehicles be illegal?

Stop with the xenophobia. You just sound like a fool.

You sound homeschooled. Don’t make me go all Inigo Montoya on your ass.