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.
I wanted to graduate mid-term in 12th grade. Counselor discouraged it. We’d miss out on senior ditch day and the stature of being a senior on campus. Then I became aware of a popular girl who graduated a whole year early.
It’s butts in the seats to the establishment. Money. A big waste of time I can’t have back.
16 year-olds should be allowed to take the GED and upon passing they should be free to get on with their lives without the schools dictating anything.
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She missed the most important things of all. Your kids won’t miss:
* Woke
* Trannies
* Drag queens
* Homos
* Anti-American curriculum
* Marxism
* Rainbow flags
* Teachers in purple-haired, tats, and facial jewelry
* Teachers talking about their weekend romps with their “partners.”
* Police cuffing your kid for misbehaving
I’m sure I missed a bunch.
The teacher’s unions hate private schools and charter schools so the only other option is homeschooling and naturally they have a negative opinion of that too!
Indeed. I think that this former teacher knew exactly what she was doing.
I see a lot of stories on FR that suggest a large percentage of parents in the country are not capable of homeschooling their kids.
I thought this was going to be about special services such as speech pathology or extracurricular activities such as school trips. I don’t know about all states but in some even if a child is home taught they have a right to services offered by the public school system and to partake in extracurricular activities. The logic is that parents do pay taxes to support the school so barring children from these would be discrimination.
“Seems to be advocating for “everyone gets a trophy” in the schools.”
I don’t think that was what she was promoting at all. Children learn at different paces. Some pick up on reading very quickly, but struggle with math. But, their classes are all 40 minutes for each subject. If home-schooled, they could work 35 minutes on reading and then 55 minutes on math. That would work best for that child. Some are just the opposite.
Some children are gifted at music and others at art. However, they never reach their potential in those subjects because they are in classes where some students can’t keep a beat and some can’t even color in between the lines. All students in such a learning environment are miserable and none actually learn anything at all. Learning should be enjoyable.
I certainly agree with her criticism on the time schedule that has children up and at school by 8:00 a.m. (or even earlier). Especially for pre-teens and teens. Around that age, they are not awake until 10:00 a.m. and anything that is presented to them before that time never makes it to their brain. Putting a child on a school bus at 6:00 in the morning is cruel.
So much (the majority) of time in public school is wasted time. For home-schooled children, Reading, Spelling, and English, along with Math and Science, can be taught during a three hour period of time. Another hour or so on other subjects, with alternating days for electives, and a child’s entire school day can be completed in five hours with a break in between subjects.
That’s why I always believed it’s best to have PE or some form of exercise before the first class of the day.
“That’s why I always believed it’s best to have PE or some form of exercise before the first class of the day.”
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Agreed. Exercise gets the blood pumping and all the muscles and organs working at optimum levels. Including the brain. It also burns some of that excess energy in young boys. At that point, they may be ready to sit down and listen for a bit.
bkmk
No, they want them at the same or less education level as illegal aliens.
Marxism?
We saw this with my children’s non-homeschooled friends. Most of the work was meaningless. The same was true when my kids were in college. That was a bit of a culture shock for them. They were so used to having clearly defined learning objectives and a teacher, me, that showed them the shortest path to meet the objectives. There were no multiple week group projects that taught a lesson that would otherwise take 20 minutes.
Government indoctrination centers are simply full of waste. They waste time, money and minds.
Every child learns differently, and different forms of education are appropriate for some percentage of them. A really efficient school system would be able to test kids and determine how they learn, then put them into the appropriate learning environment.
The one size fits all, being inclusive is what matters most process in place now is making idiots of our greatest resource.
So no midnight bull sessions at Starbuck's like the Korean students out here who are determined to get into HYP (Harvard, Yale or Princeton).
That’s fantastic
LOL about your Tom.
We have homeschooled our kids for 11 years, and it is absolutely worth it. I’m not going to say it’s easy, nor do I necessarily think it’s for everyone, but I am thankful we have.
My wife had a high school friend who, after she was married, had a little boy who she let set his own bedtime. So she ended up staying up with him til he fell asleep on his own. He became a spoiled little brat. Move forward a couple years, her husband was killed in a one car accident, and so she had to raise him on her own. She STILL let him do whatever he wanted. He got into trouble with the law, stole money from her, pretty much bossed her around.
Well, about a year ago HE was killed in a one-car accident. We don’t know what became of her. Sad.
THEY NEED DISCIPLINE. I’m not saying boot camp from day one, but they have to have some structure in their lives.
She was a piece of work, herself.
That’s funny. I remember sitting at church waiting on my homeschooled son at cub scouts having a long discussion with a school teacher on why us homeschooling was so bad. This was about 25 years ago, so we were “strange.” We went through all the usual reasons and she had to agree that indeed he was learning and had friends (after all, he was right there in cub scouts). I finally had to acknowledge that she was right on one point - my son was not learning how to deal with bullies.
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