My husband and I co-wrote this letter:
The story headlined '"I just can't do this', Harried parents forgo home school” certainly does paint a dismal, almost desperate picture. However calling the jerry-rigged system foisted on students and parents “home school” is comical to those of us who did or are doing actual home schooling.
As we have reason to believe, we and most homeschooling families put great emphasis in on flexible, responsive teaching. We try to pace things so that each day's tasks are not so hard as to be frustrating, nor so easy as to be boring. Our goal is not so much acceleration, but enrichment.
Truly, what was described by the "I can't do this" parent was grueling, not schooling. Being controlled by video programs which impose remote-control straitjacketing: yikes, that's a formula for frustration and failure every single day.
Bottom line, successful home schooling is not a matter of doing the institutional model in a different location.
They are finding out how dismal much of the public school "curriculum" is and how poor the material they use is.
Many of the insane "teaching methods" the teachers have been taught are becoming apparent too.
All of that is why we homeschooled.
Using the public school crap is NOT homeschooling.
It is public schooling at home.
Hopefully parents will figure this out.
That is amazing! Your children will turn out great!!
Have three grandsons that were home schooled, 1 works HR in California. Married a well to do girl, another owns a sports training in Dallas and the middle one is an orthopedic surgeon in Texas.
PROUD ‘papa’ I am, I am! LOL! They didn’t take after me, my Lady had all the smarts!!!