Unschooling Teaches

I know a few people who homeschool so I do understand how it works. Some people are rude and so judgemental. It is really none of their business but they want to make it theirs.

Some people are very what? Confronting? Rude? I had to laugh at the retort 'she should be home in school then'. But such remarks must get very old. Home-schooling is reasonably common here, and there are quite strict guidelines in place to make sure kids keep up to scratch.

i certainly understand how it works and wish i had done it. today it seems the best way with how this world works

My hubby and I home schooled daughter until she went off to the last years of high school-community college. We did not have a computer to help in those days. What I couldn't help with, hubby and his engineering education did.

I went to school but I learned more at home than in school, my siblings and parents had me reading and doing math before the first grade.

For parents who have to work, sending their children to school would be more practical. It takes a lot of effort,determination and consistency to home school our kids. But given the quality of education especially in the public school system (I'm referring to our Philippine education), home schooling is a good alternative. I encourage my grandchildren, two who live with us that learning is a life long process and does not stop outside the school.

I Home School my children and as you said most learning doesn't come from books alone. We take many different trips, even just walks and we learn so much! One day we walked when we first arrived in Georgia and we passed a cotton field. It took us on a history learning adventure as we like to call it! =) There are so many things to learn and many different ways to learn it all.

your methods show real life and current applications of what you learn

A lady I used to work with homeschools her children. She posts about their school work and also the trips she takes them on. I've also heard of Unschooling but am not quite sure how that works. I used to watch a youtuber that unschooled her children and they (the kids) had a lot of basic understanding and entry level skills that would help them with a future career. Such as woodworking or gardening etc. Honestly, people should just mind their own business most of the time anyway.

I am not familiar with home-schooling, it doesn't seem to be the norm in our area. But I would never ever make a comment about a student not being in school during school hours-that is just not a stranger's right to be so openly judgemental. I think that if it were me, I would be prone to quietly look the person in the eyes and quietly say, mind your own business, and go about my day.

When I was a student in my country homeschooling was not allowed, so I know nothing about this.

I can see that for children with special needs, home schooling can be the answer. For many children who do not learn at the same pace as others, or who do not respond well to a formal learning environment, school simply does not work. However, there are also big disadvantages, one of which can be the ability of an untrained parent to act as a substitute teacher. The temptation will be to reproduce the teaching that one had at that same age when at school, which will mean forgoing all the advantages that a teacher will have had during their training in the latest pedagogical methods. One must also not ignore the fact that most learning does not come from adults but from fellow learners. If you take the child away from that source of learning, you are surely putting them at a considerable disadvantage. You are also depriving the child from making friendships with other children that they would not otherwise meet, and that is very important if the school in question has a wide catchment from children of different social classes and racial and religious groupings. If everybody home-schooled, this would have a very bad effect on future social cohesion.

I was homeschooled. I went on to go to a state University - I graduated Magna Cume Laude. But yes, I meet a lot of people who are totally clueless and feel welcome to tell me that I'm at an intellectual disadvantage because I was homeschooled. And yes, I think it's good for them to learn real world skills too - I guess there are college age young adults now, who, once they get out in the real world, don't know how to grocery shop, cook, pay bills, do laundry, etc

I have no children but had i had a child, i would have her home-schooled as well. I believe he or she could have learned more from it than attending a regular school. Bad influences from classmates, plus it the expenses on scholl bus or what. To be honest, the things you learn from school are barely used in our day to day lives. Homeschooling, you are right teaches your child of the practical stuff we do everyday

I do not, but my daughter does. She is more critical of herself than others are. Her kids are learning all the time. They have opportunities to participate in more than if they were tied to busy work home work. She also takes them many places and they see how "real life" works. I am proud of her for doing so. She is friends with many home school families.

There’s nothing wrong with homeschooling some still do not understand how it is because they are used to the traditional way of sending their children to school. They feel different if they see parents having their children attend school in a different setting. For me it’s ok for as long as the child’s social interaction with other of her age group is allowed. We are social beings and should not isolate them while in their growing years. I know there are some homeschool that offer students to mingle with the other children at some point of the school year.

I was a teacher and professor and didn’t homeschool. I know how it works.

@noni1959 I have heard that homeschooling can be just as good as going to school. I found what people ask me something and I tell them they do not listen to what I say at times. There are people that like to stick their nose in other people's business and do not care.

Homeschooling is not so common in India. But we have few parents who go with their conviction and home school. I am a group of those few who follow Waldorf curriculum. I am doing it with my younger one who is in Grade 6 now. I did not know about it earlier. I gave the choice to my elder one but she liked her school and friends and wanted to continue. There are many more parents joining us now and we all go through these kind of prejudices and confrontations each day.

These people are not exposed to the modern world. They believe that acquiring education is only through the conventional way where students sit on a desk while listening to teachers.