Posted on 05/16/2007 7:41:28 AM PDT by MortMan
Barbara Ballard realizes it’s a bold move.
Her daughter, Katie, is 4. The state says she should start kindergarten in the fall.
But Katie won’t be boarding a school bus and making macaroni art projects with 25 other children. Instead, she’ll have “school” by herself at her mother’s office in southern Lawrence, where Ballard owns a technology company.
Ballard plans to home school her daughter, and in doing so joins a growing number of families who choose not to send their children to public or private schools.
“It’s a strong statement: I don’t think the professionals can do as good a job educating my child as I can,” Ballard says.
More parents are agreeing with that assessment, according to government figures and groups that advocate home education.
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She's right, the teachers can't do as good a job. Now, maybe if they really were professionals.....
“I don’t think the professionals can do as good a job educating my child as I can”
Exactly so! Here’s why:
“But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
More Parents Opt for Homeschooling
YAY!!!
I second that hooray!
Homeschooling has done so much to make our family life so enjoyable all the way around.
We are lucky and have a GREAT elementary school across the street.
However, there are so many issues with public schools that could be so easily addressed if it weren’t for the choke hold that the NEA has on schools.
As more and more people homeschool, the competition for $$$’s will just increase!
(it is so SAD that this is the motivation by public school)
Not only are you that homeschool (most likely)doing a GREAT job for your kids, I believe you will help change public schooling.
Hilariously, I’ve read almost this exact same story for the past fifteen years. Why does the media keep acting like homeschooling is something new?
My husband graduated homeschooling twelve years ago, and it wasn’t exactly unheard of then. I graduated more recently and wasn’t the only homeschooler I met in college. Homeschool grads are starting to homeschool their own kids, that’s how firmly established the movement is.
Some of those comments, outrageous as they are, are almost identical to ones I’ve seen on this forum by, well, the somewhat more liberal, big government control of education types.
Nice post.
The best revenge is living well, or in this case, seeing my adult home-educated son living well.
There are dozens of families now homeschooling just because they know him.
Mark my words, in 20 years homeschool graduates will be running this country. I think the “products” will speak for themselves.
I would think the Public Schools would want more students to homeschool. Less headaches from them. I think kids who get kicked out of schools after schools end up homeschooling because they have no alternative. The money will be able to be spread around to those who want to go to school. Again my parents also spent tens of thousands of dollars on my siblings and me sending us to catholic school and we are doing the same. Basically as the private school enrollments go down (which they are) they are just being replaced by homeschoolers which in the end evens out what numbers used to be anyway.
Homeschooling is an antidote to the leftist indoctrination that is practiced in the public schools.
someone alert the MSM that the second generation of homeschoolers are now starting their education. Stop acting like this is something new and risky.
Ditto...and home-schooling also put our kids ahead 2 grades and resulted in college scholarships.
When I first started homeschooling (my sons were 6 and 11) I didn’t know anyone that had graduated a homeschooler, except those who started late. I knew one woman who had done 7 years.
I just graduated my youngest last week. 12 years of homeschooling, and we had a graduating class in my coop of 7. The year before there was 5. Probably next year there will be 10 or 12.
Could you please PM me on how your kids got the scholarships?
Mine are 9 & 7 so I have a few years but could sure use some help.
The comments from some of the anti-Christian statists in that forum are scary. I wonder whether they realize how conditioned they are, and that many people homeschool in the hope that their children will not end up like those posters.
Yep! The family time is the best reason for homeschooling. It allows us to be together much more than if our daughter was in the government school. With her busy main activity, we would not see her very much at all if it weren’t for homeschooling..
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