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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.
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