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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What gets me is how many parents homeschool that don't have a masters.  You can't teach in a school system without a masters so why would less education be ok for homeschooling? Let alone see dont even have bachelors.  And most don't have teaching certificates. [/quote]

Elementary school is one thing.  I don't worry as much about children homeschooled at that age.

But middle and high school are different.  When I was in middle school (public school), I took algebra, french, biology.  My teachers all had subject-matter expertise.  Each had a bachelor's in his/her subject (so a bachelor's in math, a bachelor's in french, a bachelor's in biology).  In high school, I took physics, chemistry, etc.  Again, each teacher had a bachelor's in his/her subject.

Even a person with an advanced degree still can't possibly have subject-matter expertise in all of those subjects.  How can that person be her child's only teacher in middle and high school and still adequately cover all of those topics?
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Between the two of us, we have bachelor's degree through PhD subject-matter expertise in math, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and English literature. So really the only subject matter not covered for middle school would be foreign language. Unfortunately neither of us is fluent in another language. Thankfully, DC has a lot of foreign language classes for kids, several of the community colleges offer foreign languages for middle and high school homeschoolers through community ed programs, and I'm considering using Homeschool Spanish Academy. I'm really not worried about middle school. High school a lot of students switch to dual enrollment programs. [/quote]

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