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To: JenB
Yeah it's a cakewalk, I plan to be a teacher one of these days. When I have kids and homeschool them. And we won't take all summer off either.

And you won't have administration breathing down your neck every time you want to do something creative, either.

And you won't have 50 uninvolved, uneducated parents complaining that Johnny is failing, even though they haven't ever asked him why he doesn't bring a book home, either.

And you won't be judged by the number of kids who refuse to work in class and drop out, either.

My parents found ways to work around all of these obstacles in the first few years. If you've got it all figured out, don't hide your light under a bushel for your own kids. Jump right in, get a teaching job, and show 'em how it's done. Then come back here and post that it's a cakewalk.
151 posted on 02/02/2007 10:56:47 AM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio
If you've got it all figured out, don't hide your light under a bushel for your own kids. Jump right in, get a teaching job, and show 'em how it's done.

This is the attitude that is why homeschool parents don't trust government school teachers. It's just a totally different mindset. For homeschool parents (in the interest of full disclosure, while I am a homeschool graduate and intend to homeschool, I am not yet a parent myself) the idea that teaching our own kids at home is "hiding our light under a bushel" is nonsense. What is better, to be 1 of dozens of teachers in hundreds of kids' lives, or the sole (or at least one of two!) teachers in 1, 2, or 5 kids' lives?

Not to mention that your children are 100% your responsibility. Their education should always be a higher priority than concerns for others.

Homeschool parents ar ethe only underpaid teachers, since they have to subsidize wasteful government schools.

167 posted on 02/02/2007 12:50:08 PM PST by JenB
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