Why do uneducated people homeschool?
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Anonymous
| because they are stupid hicks |
Anonymous
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While many homeschooling parents are uneducated, it is a false assumption that all homeschooling parents are uneducated.
I happen to know several homeschooling families who are very educated who did so for other reasons. For example, I have a friend who has both an BA and MA from JHU who homeschooled her children. Two of them had severe allergies (one to peanuts) and after one episode where her eldest ended up in the hospital and the school clearly had no intention of enforcing the "no peanut rules", she decided that for the safety of her children, that they were going to be homeschooled. And frankly, knowing her own education, she was significantly smarter than most of the teachers in the local school. Her oldest two were completely homeschooled until college and her youngest was homeschooled until the older siblings went to college and then went to the local public school (the youngest did not have severe allergies). Her three children are now adults who all ended up at top tier colleges and had very high standardized scores. |
Anonymous
| Maybe they have really looked at the drones produced y there current education system the planned brave New world agenda. |
Anonymous
This is an extremely IGNORANT comment. Smh. |
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Anonymous
I homeschooled because the English teacher at my child's school couldn't speak proper English. (She was American - born and raised). Her grammar was so awful. Double negatives were common. As a 7th grade English assignment, the teacher wanted her students to work on vocabulary from the book they were reading in class. She pulled a vocab list off a quizlet online for all the students to study. My 7th grader brought the assignment to me confused because the words didn't make sense in the context she knew them. I looked at the list and they were all wrong. I was already frustrated with English education, and this was my proverbial straw. I was so irritated that I started homeschooling the following week. I don't know why other people choose to homeschool, but that is my reason. As an aside, I have a master's in English Literature so I knew how bad the English education was. It was also irritating me how bad grammar instruction is from K-12 in my top rated county. It's really bad. I know there are English teachers in our district who really don't know grammar themselves. Now, from a math standpoint. You could say that I was very uneducated. I stink at math, but I own that. I hired a tutor. I found a really terrific one. My daughter, now in college, ended up majoring in math. I guess it worked out. She is a math major who can write very well. I recommend not making judgements about why other people do what they do or what their capabilities are as teachers. In my experience the "judgy" people feel some jealousy so I would check your motivations here. |
Anonymous
| I'm Ivy-educated and homeschool my kids. We're pretty social in the local homeschool circles and while you see all incomes, education levels & backgrounds, the religious homeschoolers are a big contingent. They also tend to be low/lower-middle income; if they had money, they'd send their kids to private school. My kid is friends with their kids so I try not to judge, but it's hard. Some of these families think they're doing an amazing job educating their kids when all they do is give their young kids a stack of Spectrum workbooks to complete on. their. own. One mom was just bragging to a group of us the other day about how her 4th grader is doing so well at school and it's literally just workbooks. These kids aren't learning critical thinking skills, but their parents probably don't care because it means their kids will just grow up thinking exactly what the parents do. It's so sad. |
Anonymous
Why are you friends with this hateful person? |
Anonymous
| The people I know who homeschool are really smart and educated. |
Anonymous
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I know two uneducated people who homeschool.
One is a family that doesn't really believe in structure. They are all about child led everything. They did try a Reggio Emilia school for a short time but then decided just attending a school day (getting up at a certain time, needing to do drop offs and pick ups etc) was too structured for them. At first the mom just taught them organically as they went about their day but now as the kids are older they do have workbooks they can choose to do. The kids are lovely people but I have no idea where they are at academically. The other family I know is part of a religious homeschooling group. The parents taught the kids in elementary but now for secondary they do have educated adults who teach them in small groups at various homes. I think officially that is still homeschooling but it is more class / teacher style. |
Anonymous
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My husband and I both have JDs; he also has a MSW. We are fairly liberal and homeschool our kids. We made the decision for multiple reasons. Both kids are dedicated to non-school based sports. One of them has an intense training schedule in the afternoons, while the other has travel tournaments that were causing her to miss school. Involvement in these sports at this level was their choice, not mine.
Also, my kids were in public school when the pandemic hit. I saw what was being taught (or rather, not being taught) and was appalled. My kids were in 5th grade AAP at the time, and they did not know the parts of speech. They lacked basic punctuation skills that I learned much earlier than 5th grade. We have been using an old school English curriculum that teaches rigorous grammar and diagramming. They are taking Geometry as 8th graders. Finally, one of my kids had a very bad experience in public school. She is quiet and studious and understood the material quickly, and she was pretty much ignored by teachers in the huge classes (30 kids in a trailer) at her AAP center. She was routinely seated next to misbehaving boys to be a good influence or to balance the table or whatever other excuse they gave me. She was badly bullied--including food allergy bullying--and the school did nothing for 18 months, until one girl wrote my daughter a note telling her to jump off a building and kill herself, because everyone hated her and no one would miss her. The school was in the middle of a bullying investigation when the pandemic hit. It was never completed. We actually know many families like us in the homeschool co-op they attend. |
Anonymous
| It’s amazing how to me how many people, including highly educated people, can read the thread title and answer a completely different question. |
Anonymous
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People should check out homeschool recovery on reddit.
It's eyeopening. |
Anonymous
I assume you have teenagers and they're perfectly adjusted. So lucky that you were such a fantastic flawless parent. |
Anonymous
The subreddit you refer to is comprised of religious homeschoolers and unschoolers. These types of homeschoolers are not very common in the dmv area. |