Homeschooling works only if a family can afford one or both parents to stay home and do it. Most cannot, therefore we need to fix our public and private schools.
Work with the church. That is why I stated in my first paragraph that pastors are guilty of not helping.
In a congregation of 200 people, you could not find a math person, and English person etc. etc. etc? If the congregation worked together, it would be free, or at least affordable with every one chipping in. Many congregations number in the thousands. I know some qualified intelligent people could step up.
Hell, some churches spend tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands every year to school foreign children through missionaries while their own children get indoctrinated with anti-Christian lies
I think we MUST fix the public schools, because there will always be a need for them. The problem is that I’m not sure we can fix them. The universities are completely infected with leftist and secular garbage. And, there are many parents who can barely read and write themselves.
Take the economic problem to God. We started a Christian school with a handful of parents. We were able to teach Bible and Biblical values. We had to be very careful with our budget. However, we are benefiting from the investmen. It seems
Lot’s daughters went to public schools. Horrible consequences. I really can’t Biblically justify public schools.
Respectfully disagree. I have homeschooled friends who had one parent, others with two parents, and they were below poverty level. Probably far below. And others who had two parents and 8 or more siblings, yet their moms managed to homeschool them.
If a parent truly desires to homeschool, it can be done, even with no job.
Now, if two parents are both working, chances are they're working to pay a mortgage on a house they couldn't afford to buy with cash, and to pay for a loan on a car they couldn't afford to buy with cash, and to pay their credit cards they used to obtain things they couldn't afford to buy with...cash.
And those two parents probably think their house and car and stuff are higher priorities than their child's education.
That’s not true.
Mr mm worked with a woman who was a single mom of an adopted, formerly abused kid.
The kid was so much trouble in school, that the public school kicked him out and she was told that the next step was JD.
He was old enough to stay home alone, so she did online homeschooling with him, and the kid blossomed.
He always had trouble with academics, but was VERY gifted in the trade he trained in, and went on to make a life for himself.
And she worked full time.
Depends.
My wife and I tried the two parent working thing and hated it. My wife was working for USPS at the time and making more than me. Still, only $18/hour in Ctrl FL which isn’t super cheap living expenses. We met their 1st and 2nd grade teachers and the one I met talked to me in the same voice women use to talk to a young child. The one my wife talked to gave off a reek of superiority.
I quit my job and home-schooled the kids. I’m blue collar and graduated HS but no college. My kids are now as smart as any average HS graduate. College was never a consideration due to our income, same as when I grew up. They probably know English better than the avg HS graduate because they read books from the late 1800s, early 1900s.
If you have to have all nice brand new stuff all the time in your nice big home, a vehicle or vehicles less than 5-7 years old and keep up with the Jones’ then maybe it would be a sacrifice for you to lose one earner.
It did help that I’m handy and can build or fix most anything. A lot of guys don’t have that because they come from a line of office workers.
I used RobinsonCurriculum which was created by a Christian conservative PhD scientist(yes there is such a thing) who lost his wife but wanted to continue the home schooling that his wife had been doing. He needed to keep working as well but he worked from home so he created a curriculum that was heavy on self learning.
It’s very affordable because a lot of the reading is out of copyright material. I eased out of that when my daughter started using ‘I shant’ in conversation. They read the Lord of the Rings books before they were 10. Lot of Percy Jackson. That’s all my wife’s thing. I like sci-fi. Son does too.
Might have to lower your standard of living but it can be done.
Are our kids socialized? Naa, not really but I’m not social either. My wife is and it comes naturally to our daughter which she gets from mom. My son’s autistic so he’ll never be truly social. They damn get compliments for politeness though. Has it been detrimental to them? These days, probably not.
The woman who was like my wife’s second mom; and her husband, invited the kids to go stay there for a week and also invited her biological sons’ kids. Six kids in total and a few weeks later, after the kids got back, the second mom sent us a check for $400 out of the blue and while my wife was talking to her on the phone about it, she said our kids were welcome back any time but she won’t be inviting her own grandkids back. Big time Christians who go on missions every year. Just the nicest, most peaceful people you could ever meet and they went to China last time. The thought scared the crap out of me.
Sorry for rambling. Can’t get a word out of me edgewise in person. I have the web and my wife as my outlets and she’s in bed.
“Homeschooling works only if a family can afford one or both parents to stay home and do it. Most cannot, therefore we need to fix our public and private schools.”
Homeschooling is possible even if both parents work.
Public schools are beyond fixing. A bit like pretending that one can somehow clean up rotting food and make it edible.
Anyone with resources still putting their children in govt schools is playing high stakes Russian roulette. Foolish or delusional. There is no mincing words when we are about to lose the Republic.