Why do uneducated people homeschool?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

Germany, for example, doesn’t allow homeschooling. It’s not a backward country at all. In fact, I remember a case where a German family sought asylum in the US, in order to be able to homeschool their children. They actually got asylum. Hilarious!

Germany doesn’t even provide free public toilets. Most people would call that backwards.

[Anonymous]

I've homeschooled for many years and do not have a college degree. I teach my children through Algebra 2 by myself (with the help of a rigorous math curriculum I purchase). After Algebra 2 we move to tutors or local college classes. I did well in high school through Precalculus and I love math. I hate teaching writing, so I pay tutors to do that for me.

I have two more (11th grade and 7th grade), but my other 2 have already graduated and both have 4 year degrees in their chosen fields.

I do know homeschooling families that are extremely lax with their children's education and I do not believe it is fair to the children at all. They are absolutely constrained by the mindset of their parents in not believing that education is important, and I wanted my children to have a rigorous challenging education so that THEY could choose their careers and not be limited. If any of them wanted to go to medical school, for example, I would have been sure to get whatever help in educating them that I would have needed to. My 4th child wants desperately to go into STEM, and she will be able to do that with the education I'm providing her. Some of that education will come from me, but some won't. That is the only fair way to homeschool your children.

My 3rd child has some learning disabilities and the way I've been able to homeschool him has allowed him to work at his pace and achieve things he may not have been able to achieve in a public school.

There are many reasons to homeschool, but there are definitely wrong ways to do it, too. I'm in a state with almost no regulations, and for me that is fine, but for countless people I've met in my state, it is not good for their kids that they can "play" all day and just get a little bit of book work in once in a while. It's just wrong, and in a state with zero oversight many children will not get a decent education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If homeschoolers are so uneducated, they'll fail in life and will pose no threat to you and your school-going kids.

Well, except that they’re allowed to vote…

And they have access to guns and public facilities and my tax dollars.

[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.

+1

[Anonymous]

I have no issues if they use curriculums (such as Saxon math). If they're "winging it" then yes, that kid will be behind.

[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 don’t homeschool but the problem is that public school students are performing poorly. Also many schools aren’t safe and the buildings are in extremely poor condition. The bathroom situation in my niece’s school was horrendous and she got uti after uti from holding it all day. My sister finally pulled her out and put her in a local catholic school (we aren’t catholic let alone Christian). They couldn’t afford the secular private school tuition but thankfully could afford the tuition in their local catholic school. For parents who can’t afford either, what’s the solution? Public schools are getting worse not better. The entire education system in the US is broken.

[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.

Welcome to America where we still have free choice.

However, not everyone here has access to a decent public school, and they can’t afford private. Would you settle for a shit*y public or homeschool?

[Anonymous]

I am well-educated and have homeschooled my kids at various points in their education. I have met tons of other homeschooling families through social media and do not know any other homeschooling families where neither parent is college educated. We are all doing the "tiger mom" style math enrichment with AOPS, RSM, etc. Our kids do AMC8/10/12, Mathcounts, etc. It doesn't seem like uneducated families homeschooling their children and giving them a bad education is a widespread problem. Maybe the OP who started this thread lives in a rundown rural area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

Germany, for example, doesn’t allow homeschooling. It’s not a backward country at all. In fact, I remember a case where a German family sought asylum in the US, in order to be able to homeschool their children. They actually got asylum. Hilarious!

Germany produces far fewer notable public intellectuals and artists than France and the UK, which have similar population sizes and do allow homeschooling.

[Anonymous]

I've only read the responses from this year, so maybe the discussion touched on this. But, in many cases, it's for religious reasons, right? Parents don't want their kids associating with other families or teachers who are insufficiently "devout."

[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 right here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Your home country is probably a backwards country and that's why you're here. You may try to learn and adapt in a less judgemental manner.

Signed, fellow immigrant

+1 from another fellow immigrant

Germany, for example, doesn’t allow homeschooling. It’s not a backward country at all. In fact, I remember a case where a German family sought asylum in the US, in order to be able to homeschool their children. They actually got asylum. Hilarious!

Germany produces far fewer notable public intellectuals and artists than France and the UK, which have similar population sizes and do allow homeschooling.

This is one of the best made-up statements I've seen. Do you have stats on each country's Public Intellectual Output per annum?

[Anonymous]

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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 right here.

Dunning-Kruger Effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've only read the responses from this year, so maybe the discussion touched on this. But, in many cases, it's for religious reasons, right? Parents don't want their kids associating with other families or teachers who are insufficiently "devout."

This might have been the case historically and perhaps still in certain areas of the country, but these days many people homeschool to address shortcomings/bad experiences with the public schools, inability to afford private school, and the desire to address kids' individual needs in a flexible manner, as others in this thread have already mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If homeschoolers are so uneducated, they'll fail in life and will pose no threat to you and your school-going kids.

Well, except that they’re allowed to vote…

And they have access to guns and public facilities and my tax dollars.

Same could be said about kids in bad schools….