Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Homeschooling is weird. Period.

You know what? It really isn’t. Period.

Signed,
Parent of kids in public school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have nothing against homeschooling. However, I am not sure I could handle teaching my kids for 5-6 hours a day.

If you're even vaguely competent, you don't do formal "teaching" for anywhere near 5-6 hours a day. Not unless they have learning disorders and/or special needs anyway (and probably not even then). In the beginning grades it's much lower, more like 1 or maybe 2 hours a day.

It's not until the upper grades that it starts becoming 5-6 hours a day of "academic work" but by then, most of it is done independently by the student so it's not really "teaching" for that long either. Maybe still an hour a day of actual teaching from you plus a bit more of grading and admin.

Anonymous wrote:I have nothing against homeschooling. However, I am not sure I could handle teaching my kids for 5-6 hours a day.

Anonymous wrote:Homeschooling is weird. Period.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I think kids benefit from spending some portion of their childhood in school, but I have no issues with home schooling for some subset of years. It just shouldn't be all of their education. There is value to being part of a group and learning patience in a group setting.

As one example, my sister had a good friend who was homeschooled forever. She wanted to work for NASA for her whole childhood and got a degree in aerospace engineering. She only lasted at NASA for about a month before she quit. She couldn't handle to structure and beaurocracy. That was her first and last job. She now stays home and homeschool her kids.

You can't possibly say that not being able to "handle" working at NASA is something against homeschooling. NASA is one of the most strict and structured work environments on the planet. I was not homeschooled, I actually did extremely well in school including receiving several prestigious awards (in addition to a hard science PhD), and I couldn't handle it either.

Why don't you look at it the other way - that it's interesting she was able to get a degree in aerospace engineering after being "homeschooled forever" and downright impressive that she was able to achieve what many have tried but few have been able to do and to actually get a job working for NASA?

Anonymous wrote:I really can’t imagine homeschooling my kids but my very bright cousins definitely faced a college admissions stigma, which I found very unfair.

Homeschooled kids can find lots of ways to be just as well socialized, and a self-directed kid is probably on net getting a better education. I found public school to reallt stifle my self-directed learning which is part of why we use a private school.

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I think kids benefit from spending some portion of their childhood in school, but I have no issues with home schooling for some subset of years. It just shouldn't be all of their education. There is value to being part of a group and learning patience in a group setting.

As one example, my sister had a good friend who was homeschooled forever. She wanted to work for NASA for her whole childhood and got a degree in aerospace engineering. She only lasted at NASA for about a month before she quit. She couldn't handle to structure and beaurocracy. That was her first and last job. She now stays home and homeschool her kids.