Kids Should Be Home Schooled

I disagree because a person who is trained to manage a classroom is not as good a teacher as a person who is teaching others about what he does in everyday life. They may be better at managing a classroom but I would say that depends mostly on the attitudes of the kids IN the classroom. I can say that because I have learned from both types of teachers and in both settings. Also, I have worked as a teacher in both capacities (I do not hold a teaching certificate but that didn’t stop me from being hired to teach at a few colleges).

My kids learn Karate from an instructor with a black belt. Does your school PE teacher or football coach teach Karate skills? Math perhaps? Along with his degrees of black belt (I’m not sure), the Karate instructor at our co-op also has a degree in Philosophy and teaches a class about creation. Don’t be alarmed though – we have a real live atheist who teaches a class about evolution too ; ) .

My homeschoolers are hiking in the woods when they study natural sciences. They are on a boat when they study water ecology. The boat even has microscopes – can you even imagine??? Do your horticulture teachers actually earn money using their knowledge or do they just read about horticulture and tend to their roses? My children are learning it from a vegetable and fruit farmer. My third grader is learning plant ID from a Botanist who has his own landscape design business.

Are your kids learning Accounting from an Accountant? Are they learning Anatomy from a nurse? Are they looking though a telescope at the night sky? Are they having sleep-overs at the zoo when they are studying nocturnal animals? Mine are, and they take Natural Science classes from SACS Accredited teachers - believe it or not. People just jump to conclusions about what homeschooling is and don’t even know what it is at all! They have no idea that resources are abundant or that we spend a lot of time in museums and take 10 times more field trips than school children do. They have no idea how many Americans are disgusted with the “system”. They don’t realize that once a family begins to homeschool that it becomes quite obvious to the parents that it does not require 12 years, 180 days per year at 6 hours a day to get a basic public school education! If they only saw for themselves that it really only takes half that amount of time…which explains why so many homeschoolers are taking college classes at ages 13 and up.

My kids are done with academics and are horseback riding, hiking, swimming, bowling, skating (otherwise considered “socializing”) or playing the Wii with other homeschoolers every weekday and long before 3PM…while yours are still sitting in the classroom. And since their gymnastics, dance, karate, cheerleading, and basketball practice are part of the school day – they often have even MORE time than do traditionally schooled children for social events in the late afternoon/evening hours.

momof3

23 May 2008 20:34

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My kids learn Karate from an instructor with a black belt.  Does your school PE teacher  or football coach teach Karate skills?  Math perhaps?  Along with his degrees of black belt (I’m not sure), the Karate instructor at our co-op also has a degree in Philosophy and teaches a class about creation.  Don’t be alarmed though – we have a real live atheist who teaches a class about evolution too ; ) .

My homeschoolers are hiking in the woods when they study natural sciences.  They are on a boat when they study water ecology.  The boat even has microscopes – can you even imagine???  Do your horticulture teachers actually earn money using their knowledge or do they just read about horticulture and tend to their roses?  My children are learning it from a vegetable and fruit farmer.  My third grader is learning plant ID from a  Botanist who has his own landscape design business.

Are your kids learning Accounting from an Accountant?  Are they learning Anatomy from a nurse?  Are they looking though a telescope at the night sky?  Are they having sleep-overs at the zoo when they are studying nocturnal animals?  Mine are, and they take Natural Science classes from SACS Accredited teachers - believe it or not.  People just jump to conclusions about what homeschooling is and don’t even know what it is at all!  They have no idea that resources are abundant or that we spend a lot of time in museums and take 10 times more field trips than school children do.  They have no idea how many Americans are disgusted with the “system”.  They don’t realize that once a family begins to homeschool that it becomes quite obvious to the parents that it does not require 12 years, 180 days per year at 6 hours a day to get a basic public school education!  If they only saw for themselves that it really only takes half that amount of time…which explains why so many homeschoolers are taking college classes at ages 13 and up.

My kids are done with academics and are horseback riding, hiking, swimming, bowling, skating (otherwise considered “socializing”) or playing the Wii with other homeschoolers every weekday and long before 3PM…while yours are still sitting in the classroom.  And since their gymnastics, dance, karate, cheerleading, and basketball practice are part of the school day – they often have even MORE time than do traditionally schooled children for social events in the late afternoon/evening hours.

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Oh no way would I ever want funds from public education to be cut.  Our society needs to be educated and my kids and I live among those in our society.  I don't mind paying school tax.

We are a one income family for the most part.  I have a very small part-time income that has waned since I began homeschooling so my expenses have risen but income has fallen.  The classes we attend are reasonably priced.  Right now my kid goes to one two-hour class which is free.  She is an accredited teacher who has returned to school for a degree in Children's Literature.  She is an awesome teacher, I've met many, even in public school.  It is the US school system - that is what I'm so strongly against.  It is the very idea that ANY parent would actually WANT their child to learn social skills from such an environment - that is absurd.  Society among children these days is nothing to brag about.  What I can brag about is how well my children socialize with people of all ages.  That is because in the real world, nobody spends their days with hundreds of people who are the same age - as they do in school.  My kids are in the real world daily, they don't sit at home and read from their textbooks while Mom looks over their shoulder.  With gas prices, we are limited this year but we're still going somewhere at least once, every day of the week.   The parents in our groups are not all wealthy, some are even poor.  The reason we have cheap classes is because many parents are or were professionals who teach.  We combine resources and share duties.  There are no books forced on us, no standards to live up to...most kids have passed the schools standards long before they reach the grade.

No, our kids don't do well because we spend money on their education.  I think they do well because we are so involved in their lives.  I think they do well because we don't teach to the test.  I think they do well because of hands on learning verses boredom.  I think they learn more because of one-on-one teaching paired with group discussions among varied ages and kids with varied backgrounds.