Home Schooling is a Crime
Here’s the deal…I don’t know a great deal about home schooling or exactly what methods of accountability are used to insure children are receiving adequate education while undergoing this form of education. What I do know is, as the parent of three teens, there is plenty within their studies that make me shudder at the thought of having to teach it.
In California, it would seem that accountability and ability, for that matter, is being questioned and are becoming a heated topic of discussion and could potentially become a punishable law if the parents aren’t licensed to teach.
Parents of the approximately 200,000 home-schooled children in California are reeling from the possibility that they may have to shutter their classrooms — and go back to school themselves — if they want to continue teaching their own kids. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by credentialed teachers in public or private schools — or at home by Mom and Dad, but only if they have a teaching degree.
To be honest, I think there needs to be some level of accountability when it comes to teaching. I’m a big believer in checks and balances in all things. And again, I repeat that I know little about home schooling so I have no idea what parents must do to prove they are capable of teaching their kids from home.
Locally, I’ve noticed an increased number of kids out running around throughout the day and have no idea if they are home schooled or truant. I believe that’s one real problem with home schooling.
I’m really intrigued by this topic and would be interested in hearing from home schooling parents on what accountability you hold to for teaching? How is the education your children are receiving measured against the national average to insure they are keeping up? And how many hours a day do you spend on lessons versus the hours a child spends in school?
Do you feel your child is learning more from home schooling? Are they being deprived of such things like sports and social interaction?
source: TIME
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I saw that on your blog. I just can’t get my mind around feeling as though I am qualified to provide my kids with a proper education. I can’t even do 5th grade math these days.
There are SOME things that should be left to the pros.
I can see providing an early education, but from about 3rd grade on, I can’t see the benefit. Possibly even 2nd grade.
Most of the homeschoolers and unschoolers I know don’t send their kids to school because of the cons of schools. Schools are not overall doing a good job. In NM they send new student teachers, with less than a year of school into FT positions, because they need the teachers, That uproar in Nebraska is insane, Glover, stating he has to assume some parents aren’t qualified is a poor argument for testing homeschoolers when teachers in the schools are doing such a poor job, and testing hasn’t helped that situation. I think they can’t sort out the schools so they attack homeschoolers.
I unschool because teaching arbitrary topics is well, arbitrary. Testing won’t work for most home or unschoolers because it’s rare they follow the same time line as schooled kids. It’s an unfair comparison. My son is at home because I didn’t have Cedar to hand him over to other people to raise for 16 some odd years, or to make him sit at a desk, when he should be out learning about his world. I don’t want him thinking that learning is something that occurs from 9-3, five days a week, with summers off. Learning, real learning should be a whole life experience, all the subjects are intertwined. Breaking learning into neat little packages of time, and neat little topics is not how people learn.
Rewarding people with stickers, cell phones, and weird letter grades is not a good core for life long learning for the sake of learning.
But all that reasoning aside, what it really comes down to is that until public schools can prove they know what they’re doing, they need to leave HS parents alone. The kid counts site tracks education related to tests, and is just one place where people can see just how “good” schools are doing. With so many kids in the 8th grade not even being able to read at a basic level, why would I trust that the schools could do a good job. I don’t.
I actually was homeschooled! In my case, my parents used approved curriculum from the provincial education board and I had access to teachers online & through the phone. I also had a supervising teacher who lived across the street from me too! That was a nice perk
I loved being home-schooled, but it’s certainly not for everyone. It takes a high level of dedication from the child & the parent - you can’t let anything slide. I took the standard achievement tests, as well as the yearly tests required to complete each grade.
My parents home-schooled me from grade six all the way through high school - again, it’s not the right choice for everyone, but it certainly was for me.