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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest problem with homeschooling is that parents are not trained educators. If we are going to require compulsory schooling for children (and I think universal schooling is just about the best idea that came out of the last century), then we should require that the people who educate children have the skills and training to do it.[/quote]

Many are actually.[/quote]

I'm one of them. My profession is teaching but I have an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and my husband has a PhD in physics. I never would have thought I'd be doing this when we first started but the alternative was to buy another house we couldn't afford (we're underwater) or pay twice our mortgage payment for private school. Obviously I should have taken more economics courses in college. My daughter also needs speech therapy so there were other issues involved. She's in first.

University education courses don't prepare you well for teaching only experience and a mentor relationship will get you ready. And by ready I mean how to organize and teach 25 kids and how to have eyes in the back of your head. I'm constantly comparing where we are to the local schools- we're on track for reading and math (and we don't have to suffer through the horrible organization of most math curriculums. She gets more science instruction (meaning hands on experimentation and science journaling), way more history, more field trips, and more free play outdoors with other kids. When I as teaching (I was in an underperforming school in a testing grade) I was told not to teach science, social studies, or art from Dec. until the test window.  The music teacher used to have the kids color whole notes for music, repeatedly. Who wants that for their child?

Where I fall short though is not the teaching part, but my ability to have a clean and organized house. The parenting and teaching run together and most homeschoolers will tell you that's the hardest part when your kid is young. She also most likely will not have a traditional PE class where kids pick sides and learn different sports on a rotating basis. We could take a class for this though if we wanted to. As for socializing, we get a lot of it but in mixed age groups. It's only ever in a traditional school environment where socialization is defined as 25 kids of the same age.

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