What are your opinions on homeschooling?
My opinion: Both have pros and cons.
I have heard that homeschooled kids are often better academically and more intelligent compared to average students. But they have bad social skills and have a lot of anxiety.
In normal school, you might have better social skills for sure. And you might grow up good if you don’t get influenced by the rotten people at school and if you don’t get into drugs or stuff due to peer pressure. But that’s IF YOU DON’T GET INTO THESE. If you get into these, good luck getting outta these. And there’s the concern of getting bullied too…
So I personally think homeschooling might be a better choice.
Homeschooled kids do things like base their opinions on, “I have heard” instead of citing empirical proof from rigorous sources.
Depends on the parents. Lotta nutjobs and alot of lazy people and both amount to kids getting an inferior education. But committed to putting in the work, with the time to due so, and good resources in your community to assist you, because you’re unhappy with the quality of public education and/or the amount of propaganda kids are forced to sit thru? Good for you, home school away.
We all know the homeschool kids are the weird ones. But being honest, I totally get that some kids might benefit from a year of homeschooling if they’re struggling socially. Everybody’s different yeah, not everyone fits into the same box.
I think its a better than nothing kind of option for some families living in remote places or living very itinerant lifestyles
But in general, I think its just a way to for parents to keep their kids as indoctrinated into their fucked up beliefs as they can.
Also, growing up I knew many homeschooled kids through boyscouts, and they were almost always socially stunted, and often intellectually behind because their parents were barely teaching them anything.
It’s banned in a lot of European countries AFAIK.
Should be banned in every country with decent public education. Unless you have a formal education background you have no business formally educating anyone. Everyone has stories of things their parents taught them that turned out to be total bullshit and they only found out because they went to actual school.
Then you’ve heard wrong.
Generally negative.
An excellent form of inculcation.
i feel homeschooling marked me for life as an unsociable person.
every homeschooled person i know has expressed similar dismay.
i wish my parents public schooled me and put the efforts they put into homeschooling into giving me a decent home life, rather than being exhausted all the time.
i was decent at math and that was my saving grace. my siblings are dumb as rocks. we were considered smart at our homeschool co-op. one person i knew couldn’t go to community college because they couldn’t pass remedial classes.
a lot of my classes were useless nonsense - i wasted a lot of time on religious history and Latin.
a stable homelife with a solid education on avoidable pitfalls, life planning, assistance finding out what passions to chase and how to get there, and putting money towards college rather than homeschooling would far outweigh any benefits, if any, that homeschooling offers.
if “peer pressure to do drugs” is such a concern for a middle schooler, i can guarantee you that its going to be worse for a homeschooled kid becoming an adult and escaping helicopter parenting.
Most homeschool teachers have no business raising kids, let alone teaching them.
I’d have had an unarguably better life if I’d gotten into drugs with my friends in middle school. Which is to illustrate that I’m an outlier. Homeschooling sets your children up for failure. Most homeschooling programs out there are flat out bad. If you decide to do it, contact your local school district for reliable curriculum. They (professional educators) can point you in the right direction far better than the internet.
Makes sense
I have two homeschooled nieces. Their biggest strength is that they “like to dance”. Honesty, these girls are screwed and the world is going to grind them up as soon as they have to survive on their own.
Let your kids learn from professionals. This is like you expecting to be able to be a good accountant with no training.
Let your kids learn about social pressure and stress with easy kid problems, don’t let their first experiences be as an adult with no coping skills.
Parents overestimate their ability to be a good teacher.
Parents overestimate their ability to be a good teacher.
i have a friend who has her EdE. her profession before she had kids was teaching PhDs how to teach their collegiate classes better. She had kids and decided to homeschool them. That lasted four years. Why? One simple truth: She is not an elementary educator. She is a graduate educator. One of the smartest people i know, all her kids are brilliant. They could probably graduate high school when they turn 12 if they did homeschooling, but instead they are getting to be children and it only took her 4 years to realize how important that is.
Homeschooling is a great way to completely fuck up your kids. My wife and I both have Masters degree so we consider ourselves well educated, but we have always recognized that we do not have the depth and width of knowledge that our kid needed to exposed to. Also we always recognized that teaching requires dedication and skill sets we do not have.
I am not even going to comment on the lack of socialization the kid will miss out on.
The only reasons any parent home schools a kid is because the parents are wack jobs or terrified.
I’m talking from a US perspective, but I work in an education adjacent field that reviews a lot of homeschool student’s academic records from across the country. IMO, there are two types of homeschoolers. There’s the students who are truly brilliant living in a part of the country that doesn’t value education, and they’re practically forced into homeschooling (or a popular online program like Stanford Online High School) in order to receive an actual education that could challenge them. They do get less socialization than their traditional schooled peers, but they’d get mercilessly bullied at a traditional school so it’s hard to say how much value that socialization has.
The other type are the religious fundies. I have even more hands-on experience with this style, as some of my cousins were homeschooled in this manner. IMO, this shit should be illegal. It’s accepted because someone is typically monitoring these students’ academic progress, but I can say with confidence that Republican states are letting a lot of shit slide. It’s religious indoctrination at a level beyond what you would even find at a religious private school. Typically, these students are better socialized than the other homeschool students, though with the caveat that all their socialization happens in religious settings.
Parents may hate the idea of the public school system because everything is government-approved and streamlined. However, it isn’t like those same parents have a better idea in how to educate their children on their own, on top of everything else they have to do as a parent.
Also, 9 times out of 10, homeschooling involves lots and lots of religious brainwashing.
