Full Disclosure: I am "MortMan" in the posted comments on this story.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
Is it just me or is a four year-old too young to be surrendered up to the state? My son didn’t ‘do’ kindergarten back in the old days, and he’s a corporate accountant today.
What a lovely, optimistic and positive bit of news this is in a time of so many sinister negatives! Homeschooling has been the way to go for decades, and I, for one, am so pleased to see it expanding today. God bless these parents. May they be an inspiration to many others.
Separation of school and state BUMP!
Notice the HORROR in some of the comments that “the children won’t be exposed to other worldviews” (ie, indoctrination into leftism).
Yes, the left hates and fears the homeschool movement.
Cringe, lefties, these kids will FAR outperform yours, won’t be indoctrinated into your ideology, and each family of homeschoolers averages around 6 kids!
I checked out your comments. Good job!
As for homeschooling parents — HURRAH! The birthing of children and warehousing them from infancy to high school graduation is sad. I wish more parents would actually raise their children themselves. It takes a lot of love and patience and, yes, financial stability to do it. But what rewards!
We just graduated our third homeschooler this past weekend! One more to go - woohoo!
We just graduated our third homeschooler this past weekend! One more to go - woohoo!
It’s funny to read that you are the “MortMan” on the article’s website, because before I was aware of that fact, but while I was reading the hideous responses posted there, I thought to myself, “MortMan sounds just like a FReeper...”!
I know that speaking to “4th-grade” is similar to trying to teach a pig to sing, but I thought you might want to post this little link for him, which speaks volumes in statistics on homeschooled children. It proves, beyond any possible dispute, all that we already know about the success of homeschooling, but it proves it with hard scientific facts, as well as some awe-inspiring “anecdotes”. Here is that link:
http://www.chec.org/Legislative/News/HomeschoolingStatistics/Index.html
I really enjoyed reading it, as it is always refreshing to have outside verification that we are doing the best for our children, even though we already know it!
Thanks for posting this thread, and Godspeed!
In case you are interested, here are a couple of links to websites which give a peek into the history, foundation, and ultimately, the underlying purpose of public school education. It amazes me that so many put their trust and faith in an institution which has existed for less than 100 years, as though it were as necessary as air and water. Our founding fathers were mostly home educated, whether by parent or tutor, yet they managed to orchestrate the winning of our freedom from the British Empire, and to establish a Republic which has become the finest country on earth.
Here are those links:
http://www.curriculumconnection.net/thomasjeffeducation.htm
(this is a review of a book, but in that review is a succinct encapsulation of the text).
http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm
(this is a brief overview of the research and work done by John Taylor Gatto, on the ills of the public school system).