Although this video was put out by Traditional Catholics the message is still the same.
There are good & plenty of reasons to Home School these days.
I’m guessing that the main four reasons why more do not are:
A. Parents are not educated enough on the academics or have forgotten what they used to know.
B. Parents have to work to maintain their standard of living.
C. Parents are aware that they do not have the right temperment to teach anyone, let alone children, who require lots of repetition of lessons. Many parents are afraid to discipline and want to be the child’s ‘Pal’.
This need to be a’Pal or Cool Mom’ syndrome goes double if divorced.
D. Parent doesn’t want to be bothered, and looks forward to child leaving their presence for X number of hours each weekday.
Deprive teachers of sexual appetizers, ie your kids.
Next best thing......agood, qualified Christian school
We homeschooled for 13 years. We sort of fell into it. Our daughter started in private school at five. By the third grade she was bringing home 2 hours of homework every night. Our whole family life was centered around getting her homework done. She was frazzled; we were frazzled. We went to the school and were told that many of the parents expected large amounts of homework so that their kids could get ahead (many of the students were oriental).
At about the same time our son had turned five. But he was small for his age and we decided to hold him out a year. My wife said that she would work with him during that year and we would start him in kindergarten then next year. At the end of that year, our son was reading, could do addition and was on his way to learning how to play the piano. He was basically ready for second grade. So, what to do? Start him in kindergarten? That would have been terrible.
So we decided to try homeschooling for just one year and see what happened. We pulled our daughter out and never looked back. We joined HSLDA, got into a homeschool group. BIC (Butt In Chair) time was 8:30 Mon. - Thurs. and Friday was field trip day. And they went on some fantastic field trips (a whole post in itself).
We made the commitment one year at a time. In August, my wife and her buds would go to a homeschooling convention and spend 3-4 days buying curriculum and doing lesson plans for the year.
We had them SAT tested every year and by the time they were about 11 or 12 their scores were coming back as “Post High School” in every subject.
Our kids were always swimmers and when they were 14 or 15 they wanted to play high school sports so we let them go to the local private high school for two years and play sports. They basically cruised academically because they were so far ahead.
I could go on about the homeschooling advantages of academics, socialization and leadership but enough is enough (for now).
Bottom line: Both our kids are very successful in their chosen fields and we are very proud of them. Plus, we got our first granddaughter out of the deal last Nov.
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Considering the damage being done to young children on the mental, emotional, spiritual, and sometimes physical, level by the public school system, I honestly believe that the country would be better off closing all the public schools and letting parent figure out where to go from there.
There are those who will care and proactively do something, and those who don't, already don't and are already not doing anything.
OK moron I’m a contractor - wife is a social worker We both work full
Time
Our bills are like $9000 a month
you tell us how we stop working and then try to educate our kids
you’re an idiot
I got plenty of engineering knowledge and whatever to teach my kids
but you know what it’s free babysitting service
I used to joke around when they were younger I used to call and pay school a.k.a. preschool and now free school
bump
For now, I am ok with sending my kids to Catholic school but we are very involved and will absolutely engage if we see any turn towards radical leftism.
JoMa
Parents who can homeschool their kids, definitely should. If that’s not possible, put them in a private Christian school.
We know two families who homeschool and they’re miserable failures. The kids have no chance of a good future under the circumstances. Generally, that isn’t the case, though.
B
Please share: for years people have pushed me to produce a complete curriculum for my “Patriot’s History of the United States.” I didn’t have the web/marketing support, but two years ago I found the people I needed.
We have produced a full curriculum, aimed at grades 9-12, complete with teacher guides, study guides, tests, maps, and 22 video lessons of me teaching all chapters of “A Patriot’s History.”
Go to www.wildworldofhistory.com
The video lessons alone are worth the price. “Patriot’s History” is the #1 homeschool/high school textbook, in use in over 100 colleges, hundreds of high schools and homeschools and is a part of “Classical Conversations.” But this curriculum is specifically focused on US History, Columbus to Trump.
Even homeschooling your kids isn’t enough. The deranged, degraded culture is all around and will seep into your kids lives as deadly poison. It will take massive work to both inoculate your kids against this poison as well as shield them from the more aggressive propaganda. This first of all means banning t.v., internet and other social media sources from the home, except in the most filtered forms.
Actually, to keep your children safe, it is necessary to create our own society, a cultural group in which our kids grow up. In most cases, this is the Church, if a particular church group has not already been seduced by the media monster. Otherwise, it is a very tall order.
How many stories of homeschooled and private Christian schooled children are out there where the children STILL went to the dark side? I personally know several.