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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 have not read any of the other posts in this thread.)

The primary reason that people homeschool their children is to maintain control.

A secondary reason is fear of what their children will be taught in a public school.[/quote]

All the homeschoolers I know (in the DMV, and they are a pretty well educated group of people so not comparable to what OP is talking about) did it for very child-specific reasons. Usually it's that there is something about the child that is not being well-served by the schools, or can't be well-served by the schools. Like we know one kid who is a virtuosic musician and has had opportunities to perform and study on their chosen instrument but it's not compatible with public school. They home school so he can do thinks like a 6 week intensive in a foreign country in the middle of the spring semester if he wants.

I know another family that chose to home school because their early elementary kid was socially immature and academically advanced, a problem that was compounded by Covid closures. As other kids returned to school and settle quickly back into their social environment, their child developed serious anxiety and regressions. At the same time, she was testing several grade levels above her peer group and was doing pull outs for multiple subjects to higher grades, which didn't help with the social issues at all. Moving to home school actually helps their kid socialize more because they are part of a homeschool collective and the environment is smaller and more approachable than a large public elementary school, and since everyone is on a slightly customized curriculum, there is less concern about needing to be in lock-step with same-age peers. It sounds like it's a good solution in their case.

And there are others. I'd say the main goal of these families was to find flexibility, not control. I don't know anyone who feared what their kids were learning in public school, though some families do worry that their kids aren't getting enough of certain things (outdoor time, arts education, writing practice, etc.). [/quote]

Clicked on the Homeschooling thread by mistake, but fascinated by this specific question.

Why is it that so many of the well-educated folks that homeschool their kids are unable to grasp the theme of this thread?  The OP specifically wanted to know why parents that only finished HS decide to homeschool their kids.  She understands why highly educated parents (who ostensibly are qualified) might decide to homeschool their kids.

We all read the stories of the kids that are homeschooled (usually by highly educated, PhD parents or equivalent) and win the Scripps Spelling Bee and attend Harvard.  However, I have a sister who completed one semester of college, became a religious fanatic and homeschooled her kids.  Their outcomes, and as far as I can tell when hearing about their homeschool peer group, have been TERRIBLE.  She is in the South, so don't know if there are any standards in the DMV area for homeschoolers.

She homeschooled for religious/morality reasons (to answer the OP's question) but honestly didn't have training or patience for it. [/quote]

Why is it so hard to grasp that teaching an elementary kid (or a few) at home is completely different than teaching an AP high schooler?

Nobody needs more than a high school education to teach elementary kids. At least that’s the case if you graduated long enough ago that a high school education actually meant something.

At the high school level, most homeschooling parents, and certainly most of the less well educated homeschooling parents, use co ops and private tutoring for the difficult subjects.

There are really just a few religious nuts here or there who insist on educating their kids themselves even though they don’t know the material well enough. Personally, I’ve never met one of those, and I know quite a few homeschoolers.[/quote]

Why do you have low emotional IQ?

There's 20 pages of posts here lady.  Is it possible the homeschoolers were speaking to some of those comments?  Think before you attack.  [/quote]

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