Why do uneducated people homeschool?
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Anonymous
See, you have critical thinking skills (which you will teach your children), which is something OP just simply does not have going for her. They try to teach this in public school, but it's only something you can learn from your environment. |
Anonymous
What's flawed is your own logic and argument tactics. We're not asking an attorney to do a root canal. We're asking an educated mother to teach her six-year-old math. Of course she can do that. Most people can do that who have a basic education. |
Anonymous
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Going to college doesn't' make you a great teacher or educator. Look at many college profs. Very well educated, very poor educators. Having knowledge doesn't mean you communicate well, express ideas in ways that facilitate learning, or engage students. The education of becoming a teachers is about learning to teach, not about learning content, especially in elementary and middle school.
Having a degree in math doesn't mean you could teach a child social studies or English any better than someone without a degree. Being a good teacher is more about teaching kids how to learn since just talking about information doesn't mean anyone is learning anything. My father was a homeschool teacher after he retired form teaching public high school. A large religious group who all homeschooled their kids through 8th grade created a homeschool coop for high school. They brought in retired teachers to teach high school topics. He lasted a year! I taught swimming lessons for homeschooled kids for a term. They were an odd bunch. From the 12 kids, two seemed normal, about 5-6 had obvious social skill deficits - although I don't know if that was the cause or effect of homeschooling, and the other 4 or so were just not used to group, class structures and instruction. The parents were also way too over involved. It was like wrangling cats. |
Anonymous
| If they homeschool, they don't need to justify staying at home and don't have to get a job. |
Anonymous
| Homeschool should be regulated to assure that kids to not slip through the cracks, but the ones who are getting a good education and are following state laws should be allowed to continue. My sister homeschooled her two girls, and it was a sad thing to watch. From K-12, they had no contact with anyone unless they were relatives. When my oldest niece finally "graduated'" and got a job at 18, she didn't even know how to use a drink machine, and tried to put pennies in it. She had never seen anyone use one before. My sister had never even shown them the most simple things. Her co-workers had to explain to her how to use it, and she was very embarrassed. At some point in her life, my sister could have bought a water and shown her how. She was fired from her job for coupon fraud, because she had no sense of right or wrong. She wasn't actually taught anything. She spent years in her blacked-out room cutting herself, and my uneducated sister ignored her. |
Anonymous
| ^Ignore the typo. My phone isn't awake yet. |
Anonymous
Public schools should be regulated to make sure nobody is falling through the cracks and and everybody involved should be given the death penalty until they close the crushing 34% gap on standardized tests that homeschoolers enjoy over them. |
Anonymous
Were you homeschooled? 
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Anonymous
He did, however, go to college, even if he didn't finish. Also, Gates is the exception not the norm. I wish people would stop using this as a barometer. It's like comparing your avg clumsy kid to Michael Jordan. |
Anonymous
And at the high school to which my home is zoned, 3% of the students are considered on grade level. Many of the kids don't even go to school (or they spend their days roaming around the hallways/the gym) yet are handed diplomas at the end of their four years. A kid was killed at said school a few months ago. This school is extremely regulated, so why did these kids "slip through the cracks" so much? What happened to your family members is tragic, but I'm not sure what your point is. |
Anonymous
+ a million. This attitude has led to a watered down education , diploma factories, and meaningless advanced degrees. |
Anonymous
| Uneducated and weirdly religious. These go hand in hand. |
Anonymous
I agree but I'm also mostly anti-homeschool. I have no problems if you actually educate your kid; the problem is all the idiots who rob their children of an education and those kids end up being a burden on society. |
Anonymous
Statistics, please. About the burden on society. |
Anonymous
Case in point, bottom of the barrel when it comes to homeschooling: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/homeschooling-allowed-abuse-of-13-children-to-carry-on-undetected/news-story/742a0c146d3412ff0e7928fef58f95c6 It was homeschooling that hid much of the abuse. Don't kid yourself that this is an isolated incident either. |