Why do uneducated people homeschool?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Maybe because they are too dumb to realize it's a bad idea?

Mainly just thinking of my DIL, sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe because they are too dumb to realize it's a bad idea?

Mainly just thinking of my DIL, sorry!

Oh, I’m so sorry for your grandkids. If you could offer to pay for private, would she accept?

[Anonymous]

Dunning Kruger.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

We’re not talking about a parent teaching their child how to perform brain surgery or even how to do calculus. Try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

They are uneducated so they are too uneducated to know they should not homeschool.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

We’re not talking about a parent teaching their child how to perform brain surgery or even how to do calculus. Try to keep up.

Ah, but a kid should have the opportunity to study at home whatever topics they and their parents feel suitable.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

We’re not talking about a parent teaching their child how to perform brain surgery or even how to do calculus. Try to keep up.

Ah, but a kid should have the opportunity to study at home whatever topics they and their parents feel suitable.

They should?

[Anonymous]

Why has this topic reemerged? Could it be that, in anticipation of the coming school year, people are trying to make themselves feel better about their education related decisions by insulting homeschooling and homeschoolers?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

We’re not talking about a parent teaching their child how to perform brain surgery or even how to do calculus. Try to keep up.

Ah, but a kid should have the opportunity to study at home whatever topics they and their parents feel suitable.

And, not surprisingly, neither my homeschooled child, nor I, thought brain surgery was a suitable subject for home education.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would you want to have brain surgery from the kid of a doctor who taught them at home?

We’re not talking about a parent teaching their child how to perform brain surgery or even how to do calculus. Try to keep up.

Ah, but a kid should have the opportunity to study at home whatever topics they and their parents feel suitable.

You are reaching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe because they are too dumb to realize it's a bad idea?

Mainly just thinking of my DIL, sorry!

Oh, I’m so sorry for your grandkids. If you could offer to pay for private, would she accept?

My grandkids are both grown now, both are very smart thanks to my son being their father, and both are doing well. Even so, I am quite sure they have big gaps in their education, deliberate gaps because their mother is such a wacko, and I can only hope they are able to figure out how to fill those gaps themselves as adults. Like the books they have read, for instance. She limited that to the bible and other books approved by her church. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you're uneducated you don't know what you don't know and you think you know all you and your kids need to know.

This.