I think of my poor, disadvantaged HSed older two -- Matthew, with his top grades, well on his way to a medical career, Rachael with a BA, already teaching French and Spanish at HS level... poor things....
David Arnold of the NEA !, now there's a guy who would take an objective viewpoint of home schooling !!!
My wife and I home schooled our 4 children with the following outcome:
2 graduated from George Mason
1 is a licensed contractor in a major U.S. city doing very well for himself. Drives a better car and has a bigger house than his old man
1 is a film maker
....me thinks we did ok.
Let's see, in the course of their schooling, my kids have had the teacher who said that the dark meat on chicken is dark because "it's closer to the bone". Then there's the ones that spend half the class time talking about their pets and whatnot, and the one who had 11th grade math students sewing fake moles because it's Mole Day. And let's not forget the many that think watching popular movies is an effective use of class time. Professionals my eye.
cementing?
The author is an idiot!
Homeschooling parents do not want to teach any children other than their own. They know their child far better than any teacher will ever know them. The homeschooling parent does not have to put up with the time-consuming task of disciplining children that are in the classroom only to cause trouble and call attention to themselves.
Incidentally, I assume this teacher is receiving a paycheck, so he is also in it "for the money."
The next thing you know, all those professional head custodians out there will want to sire our children for us too. NO THANKS Dave, I'll do the shaping of my window washers, brick layers and space station builders.
Okay...........if I get this right by having read the first couple of paragraphs.......if no one can know everything, how can teachers possibly know enough to give a good education? After all, they can't know everything right?
This NEA jerk just did to homeschooling parents what Kerry did to the military with his recent remarks ......
Well-meaning amateurs? Noah was a well-meaning amateur. He built the ark and saved your miserable butt. And I bet he is right now sorry he did that. NEA = union malefactors.
Same old straw man argument about parents not having enough expertise to instruct their children. Yawn! Given the fact that homeschooled children outscore all other types of students in standardized testing, it seems that the the evidence does not support this expert's assertion. Why he gets it wrong is that his argument is based on the erroneous assumption that parents who are homeschooling their children are the only ones the children will be exposed to in their education. The reality is that homeschooling parents draw from a wider range of educational instruction than is available to the average public school. Not only do they have the freedom to pick out the best curriculum, but they can also avail themselves of local experts in various fields, or even through the internet. This article also assumes an education degree enables one to be an expert in education. We can all see how the public school record sinks that argument in a second. Finally, this article assumes that the classroom instruction model is the most effective educational environment whereas a mentoring model has been used for thousands of years and has trained the world's best thinkers, inventors, philosophers and leaders. Need I say mroe?
If you take your car to a mechanic, and it still won't run after you pay him lots of money, why should you trust him to "fix" it again?
Public schools are more than broken.
Pardon me all over the place. I aimed my previous post toward Dave Arnold, and then posted it to you. Sorry, meandog.
the sat's of home schooled children are higher than those of kids educated in public schools on average.
I don't recall any one of my teachers ever knowing very much about the subject they "taught", at all.
Is that why the trained professional educators resist teacher testing and raises based on performance? Is that why the trained professionals don't want to do away with tenure? Is that why the teacher's unions force new teachers to become members before they can accept a job? Is that why homeschoolers do better in subjects like math, literacy, and science than public school students? Is that why the per-student spending for homeschoolers is far less than public school? Is that why the NEA resists school choice and vouchers? Is that why people with no kids have to pay taxes to support public schools? Is that why homeschooling parents still have to pay taxes to support schools they do not utilize? Huh? Is that why?
As opposed by Malicious-Meaning Collectivist Mercenaries in government schools.
Pound sand NEA union thug!
(Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, is head custodian at Brownstown Elementary School in Southern Illinois.)
The janitor wrote this? Well, it does belong in the trash.
Considering the source, the NEA, this is no surprise.