Posted on 10/11/2023 4:44:02 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
The current education system is changing and many are of the opinion that it's not for the better. Parents are reconsidering their decision to send their children to school and are opting for homeschooling as a more convenient and quality alternative. A former teacher, who goes by @mindfull.mentor on TikTok, smartly shared a series of videos explaining what children would be missing out on if they were homeschooled. Contrary to the train of thought, the videos call out the exhausting practices and systems schools follow, indicating why homeschooling is the better pick.
The former teacher said, “If you decide to homeschool your children, there are some things they might miss out on and as a former public school teacher, I’d like to point out what these things are.” She then revealed, “Being forced to go way too fast or way too slow for their learning needs.” The former teacher then pointed out the fixed and strict schedules schools follow irrespective of the child's needs. “If you’ve got a class of around 45 students, there’s no way you’re going to be at the correct pace for every student.”
The woman added, “There will be kids who are left behind because you taught at the speed you’re told to. If they had a little more time and you could go slower, they would get it but you’re at the mercy of the schedule, you have to move on.” She then highlighted the efficiency homeschooled students enjoy, being able to practice and learn at the pace they’re best comfortable with. “One of the things that drives me crazy about the education system is this. Who decides that every kid needs to have learned each specific thing?” the former teacher said as she concluded her video.
In her next video in the series, she exposed the frivolous test system. “One thing they’re going to miss out on is being overtested to a point where they hate learning,” she said. Adding further, she said, “They are constantly stressed, constantly anxious and it can leave a negative impact on their self-esteem.” She also shared how frequent tests are far from the purpose of testing knowledge, but more about forcing children to mug up for the sake of the test. In the process, they forget to learn and understand and immediately trash out the information post the test.
In another video, the former teacher shared the problem of being unable to cope with the heavy amount of homework and schoolwork owing to kids' sleep deprivation. “When I taught in public school, so many of the kids were walking around like zombies.” She shared how several middle and high schoolers are frequently exhausted due to the heaps of tests and assignments they have. “They have to wake up so early because school starts so early, earlier than it needs to, in my opinion.” The woman also highlighted how these children are at an age where they can acquire their much-needed sleep and are deprived of that, thanks to public schools.
Parents seemed to be convinced about homeschooling after a few videos. @kristinemega said, “I’m literally at the point where I’m not sending my kids back. I have no idea what to do but I know it's the right decision.” Her other videos included pointers such as students missing out on tons of study because they were absent and never being able to keep up due to the overload. She also mentioned how students are forced to sit at a desk for hours on end with bare breaks and parents agreed with her.
Seems to be advocating for “everyone gets a trophy” in the schools. Some kids are better in school than others, regardless of workload, time, etc.
Don’t forget the brand new book
“Heather has two genders”
Missing out on drag queen reading sessions
Missing out of placing a condom on a banana in kindergarten
Missing out learning that all white males are evil
Missing out on NEA indoctrination
Missing out on......Well... you get the point
We’re in our 28th year. No lost limbs, no felony records, everyone over 20 is employed and independent. (Well, Tom comes over to do his laundry, but that’s just to pull my chain.)
Agreed. The idiots of the world hate homeschooling.
When our kid was in K-12, we used to call that "memorization and regurgitation". Very little education on applying knowledge.
The owners of the country just want people smart enough to run the machines. They don’t want the people to have “BS Meters”, and question what they do.
The US education system has been systematically made ineffective. Students are forced to learn too much of the wrong things. 67 genders, for example, is probably a good years worth of education to try and figure out.
I was NOT home schooled.
HOWEVER-—MY BEDTIME-—lights off—no reading—was 9:30 PM thru Junior year in high school.
Got pushed to 10 PM when a senior in HS-—same for all my younger brothers.
Obviously—we didn’t have computers & cell phones and electronic games.
BUT we also got up NO LATER than 6 AM to feed & milk cows—BEFORE we got breakfast & the school bus came to take us. ...high school. Grade school was 1/2 mile on same road.
ALL I hear these days is “START SCHOOL LATER-—THE KIDS ARE SOOO TIRED”
NO parent eems to set a decent bedtime & make it stick.
When I was a senior, I got to stay up later on FRIDAY nights because I played in the band at football games.
I was on the honor roll in high school & when I took night classes in Accounting, I got solid 4.0 in every class.
Piffle.
I used to have 24 tests in every subject. I generally did seven subjects so 168 tests a year. That was when I was home schooled.
I rarely worried about a test because I had done what they call, "study to the test" which means I actually had learned the material.
If your students were stressed and anxious about tests you probably were a horrible teacher.
“The idiots of the world hate homeschooling.”
Not idiots. They have an agenda.
That’s right!
Exactly.
Made for some awkward dates.
They said our kids would miss out on socialization. We said no problem: for the boy, we hired a bigger kid to beat him up and take his lunch money. For the girl, we hired a group of snotty girls to exclude her and make fun of her clothes.
Pffft. I heard EVERY excuse from “educators” in my town and church when I yanked my kid out to homeschool. I was a pariah.
Folks, make sure you join HSLDA. You have a lawyer on the phone if the “school board” comes knockin’.
And you don’t get messed up with that society either. Public school that is.
My agenda was wanting my children to know more, much more, than I do.
I was successful.
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