Homeschooling...

Well I homeschooled my daughter for 6 years.... we ARE poor now because my husband has been out of work almost a year now but at the time i was homeschooling her i wouldnt say we were poor...we werent rich by any means but we paid the bills....besides i fail to see what being poor or rich has to do with homeschooling your child.... Stupid?? LOL...well I have a college degree...and i dont know about all states but at least in my state you have to prove you at least have a high school diploma in order to homeschool..... Control issues? well some do i suppose...but not all...I did it simply because we moved from a town of a couple thousand people to a city of over 300,000 people and right before school started we saw a story on the news about how a bus driver had dropped a 5 year old off in the wrong neighborhood....he had either gotten on the wrong bus or forgotten to get off at his stop so when her route was over she just made him get off the bus and she left...he ended up going to a house and getting help but it could have ended very differently and then about a week later we saw another story where a bus had brakes that were faulty so the bus driver just slowed wayyyy down and had the kids jump off...lol...then there was one more news story about how a girl got raped in the back of a bus the bus was full and the driver was driving ..its not like the bus was empty or something....so that was it for me...we decided to homeschool.... and it was great!!! Actually she was in 4th grade when we started...she was in public school til 3rd grade and all along the teachers loved her and said she was great etc....when i started homeschooling her i found out she couldnt do simple things she should have learned already...like tell time on a regular clock,..simple math stuff like that....so it turned out to be a good thing for us cause by the time she started 9th grade her cat tests were in the 9th and 10th grade levels in everything.... Once she started 9th grade we decided to put her back in school (i drive her everyday) because i knew i was going to start having trouble with teaching the math and i didnt want her to fall behind.

I think if a person is smart enough to teach their children it is o.k. with as much meaness that goes on in the schools anymore it sure would be alot safer for the children. i so dread my little grandson starting to school next year. i do think the kids miss out on things by being homeschooled, interaction w/other kids, making friends, sports etc. I would not have been smart enough to do that myself but i did worry about my kids in school.

we have homeschooled for the reasons you outlined above. It has been a real boost to the boys' advancement because of the focus they have and receive.

GUess I could teach if I had to but wouldnt wantto think they kids needed other input besides mine I did help with questioning on test and things for the to prepare for them or helped them woth words in reading but other than that nope dont think I would wan tto do it

Hey Twoey, I have a sister in law who home schools her kids and she is not alone. Many at her church do this and they all support each other in the different classes and grades. It is amazing what the parents and kids go through to be home schooled, they have to pass each and every credential that any "brick and mortar" school would have to and the tests and grading is the same or even harder than the traditional schools. Last year I went to a graduation of this home schooled group and I was in awe of what I saw. Each and every student of each grade got their diploma, awards for their personal accomplishments and their scholastic accomplishments as well. Each child had a mentor who stood at the podium and spoke of these accomplishments prior to giving out the awards. Each and every child had a self confidence and a very proud demeanor, more than I had ever seen before and way more than I expected. I take my hats off to the parents, students and their community of home schooling.

I don't believe in homeschooling. My girls went to a regular school and their cousins (on my ex's side) were home schooled and they were all the same age. They were all playing junior boggle and my girls knew more words than they did. I think kids get more of an education if they are taught by the teachers than the parents.

You are right..but I'd like to add one more point. Not all children can be homeschooled either. It is not always about being able to teach...some children can learn on their own with minimum guidance...at the same time..there are other children who learn better from their peers rather than being 'taught'. So, it's a two way thing. We are homeschooling our 9 year old for the past 8 months. He was doing great at school and was into all the activities at school...now one would ask..why did we homeschool. We felt he needed more challenges academically and since he was musically inclined, we wanted him to focus more on that without it being just an after school hobby class (which was tiring after a whole day at school)

I have never homeschooled a child but it has crossed my mind many times with all of the violence and corruption in school these days. I would do it if I had more knowledge of it and how it works. This is my childs last school year though and she will graduate.

Well I don't agree with that statement either, I think if your suitable to homeschool your kids and the kids enjoy it, then do it. I also think there are pros and cons of homeschooling too, while the kids do get one on one teaching and there aren't any distractions, and the parents can spend more time with their children, the children also miss out on having interactions with other children, they don't get a chance to make friends and learn how to associate with other kids, and be sociable. I know some parents that homeschool their daughter, and they do a great job, she's a great kid, and smart, but whenever she's around other kids, she doesn't know how to interact with them, she acts like she's scared of them, I see her at church all the time, and she won't play with the other kids, they'll try to get her to play, but she'd rather stay with the adults, and I think that's strange, but like I said most of the time she isn't around children, she's just at home all the time. I don't think I would homeschool, I'd rather send my kids to school, thats why we have schools.

On the whole I think homeschooling is very good here, there are many clubs set up to make sure these children get the social contacts needed and I know many are doing very well on the state and national testing. Myself I could have never done it, the best thing in the world was for my children to be away from me and for me to have a full time job. I am a compulsive person and if I have any energy left after fixing dinner and cleaning up, my children would have felt the pressure which they didn't need to do. The world does not come to an end because you didn't make your bed.

No I do not think I will ever homeschool any of my kids. I do not feel qualified to teach them and that is a task best left up to the professial school teachers. I think that persons who do homeschool have no fath in the educaioal system and have other reasons for doing it other than adicemic ones. Think that some parents home school there child more for reasons that perrain to politics than antthing ease.

I am about to graduate to be a professional teacher but I do support parents who want to homeschool their children, IF they are willing and able to put forth the effort and time that is needed to properly educate their children. I do not think that it is accurate at all to describe homeschool parents as poor or stupid. I have known many children that were homeschooled for various reasons and entered college 2 years before their public school peers. As far as having controll issues, I have controll issues and there are things about public school that I do not like at all. I feel that if you are willing to work hard to educate your children better than the public school system then please do so.

Poor, are they kidding? It's expensive to homeschool. And Yes, I did homeschool for some years. Why? I don't like the state picking and choosing my child's curriculum and I don't care for the Department of Education testing children and putting them in little boxes. Do I have issues with authority? Perhaps when authority has a problem with me, you could say I have a problem with them as well. I also didn't care for overcrowded classrooms and teachers who have no control. I was also fearful of school violence affecting my children.

Home schooling is very gratifying. However you have to be careful with the "at your own pace". Your child still needs to meet clear cut learning goals each year in order to progress at a steady, normal rate. We started home schooling when a principal told me it wasn't her job to educate my child, it was my child's job to come to school and get educated My child was in the 5th grade and all I wanted was for the teacher to initial her home work assignment after she had written it down to make sure it was all written down. My family is full of teachers so I am not knocking them. Schools where we lived were just to large and no one seemed to care about the individual child. I did know a number of home schooled families that are going to end up with uneducated children. They thought you could have them a curriculum and say here go do this and that was all it took.

I wouldn't have homeschooled our kids when they were younger. I don't have the qualifications to be a teacher. Also thought it was important for our girls to attend school and learn to share and learn from another adult who had all the qualifications. Being social was important for our kids to learn. Our girls grew up to be fine adults with good careers and goals. Am so proud of them. I don't see a thing wrong with a parent or parents who homeschool as long as they are qualified.

I don't believe that home schooling is stupid and only the poor do that..Sometimes people just like to keep their children away from all the perversion in the worls..I feel lkie home schooling is a good thing if the parents are able to do it..

hello there! if only i have all the time in the world as well as the resources, i would have home-schooled my kids. there's nothing wrong with it in fact i believe it would be one of the best educational system kids these days ought to have. the one who issued the statement has truly one close mind.

I am not a fan of homeschooling but to say that parents that choose to do it are “poor, stupid and had control issues with authority” is ignorant and narrow minded. I personally would not have enough knowledge to teach my daughter adequately and part of the reason for that is that I don’t remember a lot of what I have learned at school! I know she would not benefit from me schooling her. The other thing that concerns me about homeschooling is the lack of social interaction with other children and teachers which in my opinion is a learning experience itself, for example my seven year old has a rather bossy friend and my daughter’s lesson here is to learn to assert herself and deal with stronger personalities. Having said that, it is important to remember that life is not black and white and there are instances where pulling a child out of school may be the best thing for that student and I am certain that there are parents out there homeschooling and doing an exemplary job, I’m just not one if them!

HI twoey...I think that those comments are horrible. I think it takes a special kind of parent with much patience to homeschool a child. I don't think it has anything to do with money - I think it is solely based on the needs of the family and more specifically the child. I absolutely would homeschool my child if necessary. I would do whatever was necessary to help my child.

Homeschooling Homeschooling(because of various reasons)=can be good Benefits: -a strong relationship between the family -a good,thorough education Negatives: -possibility of a disocial development -possible trouble in later life to work with people Homeschooling(because of religious reasons)=disaster -plain disturbing if you ask me...