Posted on 05/22/2020 7:46:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have 3x kids homeschooling.
The youngest (11) hates it. She’s a social butterfly and misses her friends, her teacher, she just like going to school.
The Middle (14) loves it. She’s an introvert, very shy, is repelled by teen drama. She is excelling at homeschooling in a way she never did in school.
The oldest (18) doesn’t give a crap. He just hates school.
I doubt Americans will give up their love of public school indoctrination and free lunches in a couple of months.
That could be a good thing for most.
But not all parents are cut out to be home teachers.
After the first few weeks of school, with the prison-like CDC rules in place, there will be an exodus from public schools. School will be such a joyless place that only children from joyless homes will feel okay there.
Need information? Go to CDC.gov and check out what they are recommending. One can only hope the states ignore them or one can begin to plan to home school.
Yes the CDC recommendations for schools are horrifying and prison-like. Yesterday I applied for my teens to attend a small local conservative Christian school (400 students) and am prepared to pull them out of their large liberal public school (2000 students).
We are in a blue county in a blue state and I’m hoping that the most draconian joyless measures, if really mandated, will be easier to take in a small loving Christian school.
Mandatory masks for children in school in the fall would be the final straw, I think and my husband and I would homeschool until that is dropped. I just can’t see my children being able to breathe in them.
As a teacher retired after three decades in the classroom, I taught with many teachers who were miserable failures and should never have been employed in the classroom. They had nothing but a bad example to offer students, but too many lasted until their retirement party.
We made sure to purchase next year’s curriculum for our 2 homeschoolers early to beat the rush this year.
It is amazing to listen to folks at work realize that most of what their kids are getting fed in the government institutions is crap. One guy however, married to a teacher, threw up the old canard about “socialization”. His head rocked back when I asked how long he had been bigoted about homeschoolers.
Now is the time to fight hard as the left is getting it’s ass handed to it over their mini socialism COVID experiment.
some kids probably balance the checkbook and pay bills for their semi-literate parent.
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The per pupil dollars need to follow the child and not go to a public school if the child isn’t attending.
Easier to say than to do.
Sounds like your youngest could be accommodated longer term if plenty of group/club type activities were included.
The oldest (18) doesn’t give a crap. He just hates school.
Daughter has one of those who is soon to be 13. She is going to enroll him in the online K-12 for this next year. He’s happy about it so far.
Not all parents are willing to sacrifice to be home teachers. There isn’t some magical mystery to teaching, just a lack of desire. Any deficiency in knowledge that a parent might have can be offset by outside tutoring and home school community support.
An increase in Homeschooling is the silver lining of CV.
Even lib Austin ISD (TX) is saying it may only invited back 25% of it’s students in the fall. That 25% will be the kids who are most in need of face to face learning. AISD and it’s nearby districts are looking at continuing at home computer learning and a combination of that with modified part time in classroom teaching.
Online schooling is where it’s going to be in the future.
Yeah, that’ll never happen.
True, but I was thinking more about parents who just can’t organize the teaching process, or focus, or have the discipline to be able to teach.
I don’t think my ex could have home schooled full time. And she was valedictorian of her University.
Blessings to you and your children, that you have made a wise choice for their good. There are no perfect people running perfect schools, however at least, you will have more input than government schools can provide with their thousands of pages of legal “guidelines.”
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