6. Homeschooling parent/teachers are arrogant to the point of lunacy. For real! My qualifications to teach English include a double major in English and education, two master’s degrees (education and journalism), a student teaching semester and multiple internship terms, real world experience as a writer, and years in the classroom dealing with different learning styles. So, first of all, homeschooling parent, you think you can teach English as well as me? Well, maybe you can. I’ll give you that. But there’s no way that you can teach English as well as me, and biology as well as a trained professional, and history… and Spanish… and art… and counsel for college as well as a school’s guidance counselor… and… and…
Academic credentials are only part of the equation. How do you handle disruptive students in the class? Do you care if students can spell or not? I am not a math or a history teacher but if I home-schooled our son (and I don't) he would be working through the Saxon math books and reading the Hakim books on US History. He does not know it yet but he will be doing those things away.
Also, you call homeschooling parents arrogant. What a crock.
The very tone of your comments reek of arrogance and elitism.
One of your points 8 reeks of racism and classism-students from poor less educated families can only learn by being around students who families are well educated and wealthy.
That is absurd. I knew lots of such kids in high school-they were not interested in helping kids from poor less educated families.
Here is that Educrat’s vulnerabily point - her Gotcha Point.
“My qualifications to teach English include a double major in English and education, two master’s degrees (education and journalism).
MS Educrat admits to a degree in journalism, AND wants the FR community to accept her having survived the academic rigors (forgive the sarcasm) of a school of urinalism as a qualification making her superior to a home schooling parent.
Get The Net, FReepers, we have a live one here.
I was homeschooled and I'm homeschooling my kid sister. A few years ago we were given a Hakim series, Mom said she wouldn't use them in an outhouse.
To each his own, but Hakim is very pc.