Home schooling - please explain this to me

[Anonymous]

*lessons

[Anonymous]

"Too many schools zap children of their natural love for learning."

THIS

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I never said they were all my students. I said WE encountered, as a school, hundreds of kids. Our FCPS had over 800 students in it. That is 24 students/year. In the years I taught, WE encountered hundreds of students who were homeschooled and then were mainstreamed in the classrooms. I was part of the discussions of the issues both raised by myself or teammates. For example, when we met as a team to work on placements for the next school year, X-person's issues would be raised by myself, a teacher teaching a child under my grade, or a teacher teaching a child above my grade who had gaps as a result of being homeschooled. We would also discuss it as a team if we were working on our lesson plans and why a particular child was struggling on something. We would discuss it if there was a child advanced in some areas but significantly weaker in others. I was either a party to the conversation or listening if it did not affect my core class or my upcoming core class. I also have many friends from other schools, including those I previously taught with who moved to other schools or those who I went to school with, and they have also expressed the same thing. So in 8 years of teaching, yes, I still stand by the hundreds - probably 200 that I heard about over those years, at least.

Again, your math is suspect. You are making the assumption that 24 brand new homeschooled kids walked into your school every year for those eight years rather than students moving up through the system at a rate of about 4 in each grade. This is also assuming that those entirety of the 3% that we're homeschooling in your school's district have all decided to come back. I have no doubts that you may have complained 200 times about a few homeschooled kids and your are misremembering it.

Schools don't really teach logic and it's well documented that we don't teach teach math well either.

PP, I'm impressed by the conjunction of "I have no doubts that you may have complained 200 times about a few homeschooled kids and your are misremembering it." and "Schools don't really teach logic.", all in one post.

These were partly my school, partly the schools of those with whom I previously taught and then partly the schools of those I went to school with myself and teach outside my school. Suspect away. You're right. Homeschooled kids are gapless.

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I never said they were gap less. I just said there are gaps in every education system and I have a hard time believing 200 kids.

Homeschooling isn't the perfect system for every child, but each of the other possibilities have their own set of challenges too.

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Anonymous wrote:I never said they were gap less. I just said there are gaps in every education system and I have a hard time believing 200 kids.

Homeschooling isn't the perfect system for every child, but each of the other possibilities have their own set of challenges too.

There are negatives with all types of schooling, however most often there are more negatives with homeschooling than the positives. There are exceptions to that general rules, however, and some homeschooled kids do incredibly well whether it be in spite of or because of their parents.