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To: Blood of Tyrants

Parents who want to find a way. I’ve known single mothers with several children working low income jobs who homeschool. It is a question of priorities and facing up to the learned educational helplessness a government school habit creates.


14 posted on 01/27/2012 8:10:55 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000
I’ve known single mothers with several children working low income jobs who homeschool.

Would you be kind enough to explain how they did this? Presumably a single mother is going to have to hold a full-time job to support herself and several children, which means she's going to be out of the house at least nine hours out of twenty-four. Then she homeschools the kids for five or six hours (presumably during the daytime when kids are alert). So that's 14 or fifteen hours a day before she even begins on housework, errands, cooking, yardwork, laundry, and any recreation. Sounds like she'd have to work a night shift. So who watches the kids while she's at work, and how does she pay for the daycare or nightcare if she just has a low-income job?

It's not learned helplessness to ask how this is done. I'm scratching my head. Maybe if you had a lot of child support from the ex, or a mother who was willing to keep the kids overnight. Can you offer some clarification?

21 posted on 01/27/2012 9:16:19 PM PST by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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