Parents and Teachers Starting 'Learning Pods' Are Done Waiting for Permission

Intellectual Takeout ^ | 8/4 | Kerry McDonald

[AT7Saluki]

These learning pods, or in-home microschools, involve small groups of families coming together to take turns facilitating a curriculum for their children in their homes, or pooling resources to hire a teacher or college student to lead instruction. They are a creative, spontaneous response to uncertain or undesirable school reopening plans that make at-home learning easier, more practical, and more enjoyable for more families.

These pods are also a prime example of what Adam Thierer calls “permissionless innovation,” where new solutions and discoveries are born without explicit regulatory blessings. In his book, Thierer explains: “The best solutions to complex social problems are almost always organic and ‘bottom-up’ in nature.”

[Persevero]

Go to hslda.org and find your state chapter...contact your state chapter with your interest. I hope he finds some eager students. God bless him. I would have utilized him!

[Steven Tyler]

Sckrools supply two services:
Teach the three R’s
Keep the yutes occupied while the parents earn some money

[icclearly]

Home schooling is an idea whose time is way overdue! Public schools have been a menace on several fronts for many years, the least of which is indoctrination!

My own observation is that homeschooled children tend to outperform public school students in so many areas. If anyone has statistics on things like college graduation, SAT scores, etc I would sure like to see them.

Thanks.

[wbarmy]

This is driving me and my wife crazy. We home-schooled all five of our children and this used to be called a homeschooling coop.

But I guess “pod” is much cooler now that the cool parents are doing it. They wouldn’t want anybody to think they were hicks doing regular home schooling, would they?

[scottiemom]

Yes, it is exactly how public schools began. Remember that government involvement will ruin the overwhelming good that old-fashioned schooling makes. That means NO funding, no “national” or “state” standards or endorsed curriculum, no free school lunches and so forth. Can it be done? I think so but what you have is basically is private school. Sure sounds good though.

[MayflowerMadam]

Thanks for that website info. I will give to Hubby.

My brother’s wife home schools her boys in rural NYS, and they’re doing great. Smart kids!! I think they wouldn’t have achieved what they have if they’d been in a conventional school. Shoot ... I know they wouldn’t have!

[clarissaexplainsitall]

I agree! Who says we have to live by their rules?!?!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the left wants a society where everything is either required or prohibited, without room for freedom of choice.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine,Common Sense (1776)

The identity of “society" with “government" is the extinguishment of freedom. Even back in the middle of the Eisenhower Administration, I had a teacher give an assignment whose purpose turned out to be for him to proclaim “We like to say society when we mean government.” Even as a high school student I recognized that as a socialist formulation. But I did not then have knowledge of that quote from Common Sense.

[metmom]

I recall a FReeper, not too long ago, wad taken down a tree in his own yard, and said the neighbor lady asked *Are you allowed to to that by yourself?*

Really? Have we gotten to that point where we need someone’s (usually the government) *permission* to take care of our own personal business and make our own decisions?

[CFW]

You can also check and see if there is a retired teacher’s association in your community. A lot of them do tutoring on the side. Plus, they still have a lot of connections in the educational community and can refer people to you. For instance, if one of them is tutoring someone in math, but there is a need for an English teacher, they would know.

[wintertime]

Many communities have neighborhood facebook pages.

Homeschooling groups are everywhere. An internet search can help.

Put an ad on Craig's List.