I agree. I have no problem with homeschooling or homeschoolers, I am all for it.
But for some reason, on these kinds of threads, it seems if you aren’t a homeschooler yourself, you’re a bad parent or not willing to sacrifice for your children, blah blah blah. Let the attacks begin...
Hey, HOMESCHOOLERS, some of us NEED to work in order to pay for things like RENT, and UTILITIES. And as much as we’d love to homeschool our precious children, having a roof over our heads and food to eat, is a a bit more important than sending our child to a government school.
And while I don’t agree with what all the govt school is teaching my children, I know I can do my share when they are with me to teach them what is right and wrong and set them straight if they are being taught something incorrect. But homeschooling is NOT the only option and I am NOT a bad parent because I am unable to or am not “sacrificing” enough to...
And by the way, considering these progressives have been changing history and what they are teaching in school for decades, I went to government schools and I did just fine.
So you can’t afford to school your child. If you couldn’t afford the house or food would you expect the government to provide that too?
Four kids, one military income, my bills get paid, and looking at my gut we eat well.
I have to find someone that can't homeschool. I will not send my children to government schools. I will be in jail before my kids go to a government run school.
I do not "attack" people who send their kids to government schools, I will highly encourage you to homeschool. How your children are educated is your right, and responsibility, do what you want. I encourage you be very active in the education your children receive, retraining them in the evening, making sure what they are taught in school aligns with your personal beliefs. Of course if you are retraining (reeducating) them in the evenings you might as well be homeschooling.
personally, i don't know of any homeschooling families that are wealthy... in my circle of homeschoolers, we are sacrificing much... i set a side a really profitable career in Corporate America to educate our kids at home... our lifestyle has changed dramatically... i remember the days of nice vacations, fine dining, current wardrobes... it is a sacrifice... not everyone can do it... not everyone has the wherewithall to do it... again--it's a huge sacrifice for those of us who are not bringing in the big bucks... some months--i don't know how we make it... would our financial circumstance be helped if i took a job, even a part-time job? yes... but would it be worth it to put our kids in government school? not to us...
so what is it i really want to say here? that we make choices... all are choices... few are forced to put their kids in government school... i don't think a parent is bad for doing that... but it is a choice... and when someone chooses government school, that person gets all that comes with it... and when i hear those parents complain about this and that, i think, "well, it's a choice." and it's the same when i hear homeschooling parents complain about all the things that come with this lifestyle... "well, it's a choice." (and a disclaimer: yes, i realize i'm not using capital letters and formal punctuation... and no i don't teach my broken grammar rules to my kids)...
If the fedgov and stategov quit taxing everyone to pay for schools, people like yourself would have a lot more money and it would thus be much easier to homeschool.
Ok... So? Do I get this right? You are using the government schools for taxpayer paid-for babysitting?
It is amazing to me. Parents who seem to have no trouble paying for babysitting for pre-schoolers suddenly absolutely have to have government schools because they are working.
Yet,... in my state the average tuition at a private school is less than $4,000 which is often **less** than the cost of daycare. Given that this is an average of tuition, from the most expensive to the least expensive, many private schools are well under the $4,000 range.
I went to government schools and I did just fine.
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If you did just fine why do your kids need to be institutionalized for their schooling in government schools?
If a parent is taking the time to fully read their child's textbooks, curriculum, and review their class day, and un-teach and re-teach what should be taught, they might just as well be homeschooling. That is **if** they are doing a proper job of it.
It actually takes **MORE** time to properly parent and afterschool a government schooled child than it does to homeschool! I **seriously** mean it. ( Having done both, I know.)
In the first second and third grades my children rarely spent more than one hour in formal homeschooling. From then on it was never more than 2 hours. The rest of the day they played. Yet...By the age of 13, 12, and 13 all were in college. All finished all general college courses and Calculus III by the age of 15, and two has B.S. degrees in math by the age of 18.
My children are normally bright. It is the institutionalized child who is artificially retarded in their academic and social development.
The gov’t schools get your kids for 30 hours a week, and you’re going to overcome that “teaching of right and wrong” in HOW many hours you get to spend with them, specifically concentrating on teaching them YOUR values instead of secular humanist values? Yeah, right...
“I went to public school and turned out alright...”
So did I. It’s nothing like it was when any of us adults went.