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I have accomplished what I have **IN SPITE** of wasting many years institutionalized.
I am educated because of my parents and my OWN efforts. The school merely sent home a curriculum.
It was my parents who taught me to read using phonics, and drilled me on math facts, controlled the TV, and valued education. The school never walked me to the library. I did. It was my father who patiently taught me algebra and geometry. It was my mother and father who ruthlessly took a red pen to edit and correct my term papers.
All academically successful people I have ever met were homeschooled. If they were institutionalized for their education, all the school did was send home a curriculum for their parents and them to follow.
Are there exceptions? ...Possibly, but I have never met them.
You are truly a lost cause. The schools provide the books for the students, the papers for them to use to study and learn, the teachers to give them assistance if they have questions, the equipment to further encourage a learning environment, meals to keep the body and mind strong enough to learn, an environment filled with other students to encourage the students to learn how to interact with other members of society.
That’s lots of help from an institution you say does NOTHING to help with your educational experience.
I love homeschooling and homeschoolers but I think there is value in public education. There should be a choice and it should be equitable.
Vouchers, to me, seems the only trully equitable way to provide for education that the parents are able to maintain their influence and have a choice of institutions where their children attend.
Are there exceptions? ...Possibly, but I have never met them.
Well then, we should meet. I would consider myself somewhat academically successful, having graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Exercise Physiology. My parents didn't do much involving my education, my Mom worked (back in the olden days when most Mom's didn't) and they assumed the schools were doing their jobs. Somehow I muddled through. So, you may have to stop saying "all" when you quote yourself next time.
And maybe you should meet my kids too. None were homeschooled (although I would have if I had known it was an option). I did very little helping them with their educations, unless they asked for help, (which they rarely did). All went through the local school's Gift/Talented program, took honors classes and graduated from college.
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susie