Posted on 04/18/2020 11:45:44 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
One of the more significant social and political consequences of the coronavirus pandemic is the fact that countless American parents of public school-enrolled children suddenly find themselves faced with the daunting prospect of having to homeschool those kids for an indefinite period of time. When normalcy returns, most of those families, who for various reasons are unable or unwilling to continue homeschooling, will simply fall back into their old groove and schooling will resume as before. But many parents may find themselves enlightened and excited about homeschooling’s benefits and how it actually operates, as opposed to common misconceptions, which are usually pejorative. This is a possibility that the secular leftist elites in education will not tolerate.
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wont’ they be hysterical when home school parents apply for a ‘home school teacher’s union’ certificate then-
I’ve always been impressed with the maturity and poise of home-schooled children. While in the US homeschooling tends to lean conservative, there are other cases where the kids are homeschooled due to other factors such as the parent’s life choices — I’m thinking of sailboat “cruising” families. In those families as well, the kids are way ahead of their public-schooled peers.
I think parents are going to see this by next fall and at minimum start paying more attention to what the public schools are indoctrinating their kids with.
Breaking Big ED would be a blessing if it came out of this.
Too late. Motivated parents, many now with time on their hands, have unparalleled opportunity to counter all the propaganda that has been shoveled into their kids’ heads over the years they have been in public school, and once the cognitive dissonance is realized, between what the kids have been indoctrinated with, and lessons based on the real world, the harder it shall be to reinstitute the propaganda drills.
I have two friends whose kids in different different high schools want to home school next year.
Parents in charge of their kids education. Oh, the humanity.
Also, much of the problem was DIVORCE and children, both genders, growing up without DAD around.
...and the children might escape indoctrination!
Well, they could just reopen everything to prevent this terrible fate.
Plus many parents will likely be unemployed for the foreseeable future and might just decide it makes sense to home school.
I learned a lot more about my child when I home schooled him. I got to see how his mind worked and we became closer in our relationship. Inside of 3 months he caught up 2 grade levels. I let him work at his own pace and didn’t introduce new concepts untill he fully grasped his lessons. One day he looked at me with admiration all over his face and eyes and said..Mom, you are the best teacher I’ve ever had!
By the time he went back into public school he was in 7th grade and was actually 2 grades ahead.
The schools didn’t work out wrll for him. He returned to working his education on his own and graduated highschool with honors. He did well in college.
‘I think parents are going to see this by next fall and at minimum start paying more attention to what the public schools are indoctrinating their kids with.’
homeschooling will be strangled by burdensome property taxation, exactly the way parochial schools have been...
Leftists, during periods of emergency homeschooling is utterly ineffective. The declaration of emergency disables homeschoolers from being able to learn anything. So there is no danger from this quarter at all. Relax, folks, the state will make it all good. Once the state can outlaw homeschooling forever, you can have at those students. Indeed, it is historically inevitable!
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When this started, I figured this might be one of the unintended consequences of the left’s Big Fat Lying Hype. They started it but, as is typical for lefties, they never think one step beyond the moment. I expect, and hope, that public school student bodies will be reduced by about 25%. Teachers unions will suffer, and administrations will lose money due to the smaller head count.
I’m afraid it will have the opposite effect. People who are finding this way of doing things very difficult will assume that all homeschooling is like this. Because they can’t do it well, they’ll assume others can’t either.
1. Do people HAVE to live in the very expensive cities?
2. Parochial schools are closing because children are NOT being put into religion-based schools. Who needs God? Parents are not choosing those schools.
Someone wrote a concise, witty rebuttal to lefties who sneer that you’re cheating your children out of acquiring social schools only available to them at a public school. The writer said they were offering “enrichment” methodologies like having her husband beat her children to steal their lunch money, and her own efforts lurking in the bathroom to pressure them with them street drugs and cigarettes when they enter.
So much of class time is spent trying to settle kids down from the distractions of public school and the regimented movement of a 30+ kids through one lesson at the same place etc. I just imagine that homeschooling must take so much less TIME and ENERGY for a student that a return to public school would seem exhausting and inefficient for them.
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