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The exposure of socialization is not an issue for most families. (Kids spend only six? or a bit more hours of every 24 IN school. That leaves a lot of time for socialization needed outside of it for both public and homeschooling families.) It can't be helped that some dysfunctional families have chosen homeschooling. The teachers in my family, two of them both reported an alarming rate of dysfunctional children from this type of families in our Public School system. This 'old world is worse and we simply have more of them, tragic as that is. The Public schools can't prevent or fix them, so we also can't indict homeschooling for having its share of them, either.
I find it hard to believe that I just happen to have done play days, charities, etc. with all functional and successful homeschoolers. What are the ods? know what I mean?
For single parents and those that CANNOT even consider homeschooling, my prayers, wishes and respect to them. But....to the millions of families that can, and have not, I say like you did about homeschooling, to them--
"It would be a lot better not to leave it to the occassional chance, that Government/Public schooling might work out." I say this because, truth is that as the world gets more screwed-up and the percentage of dysfunctional families rises in society...then their kids are in danger from the larger amount of dysfunctional kids they will encounter IN those govt. schools. Then there's govt. indoctrination, those determined to change the kids' values, etc.
Sorry, but I stand by original opinion. The overwhelming majority of home school parents are in no way qualified to be teachers.
Would you personally ever consider taking your own children to a Doctor that wasn't properly schooled and trained? I'm sure that the answer is no.
I can guess that you will argue that it isn't the same thing, and that being a doctor takes a lot more training and education than a teacher does. But, that argument proves my point. There is a general lack of respect for education and teachers among the home school community.
The thinking is that being a teacher is easy. Something any parent can do.
We used to have the best educated kids in the world. Alas, that was before private schools were around much. Now we are about 20th or so, seems to me we should close all private schools.
Exactly.
If we somehow actually could do that, can you image just how hard all of the private school parents would work to make sure that the public school was as good as it could be?
Now, there are magnet schools, private schools, Charter schools, and home schools.
There are so many different ways that someone can opt out of the 'regular' education path, many of the public schools are left with only the lower income children, the children who's family didn't win the magnet lottery, or the children who's parents just don't care.
It makes it very tough on the even the best public schools.
What argument? It's a statement of fact. Do all discussions on this forum have to be polemical? Can we just enjoy a calm, reasoned conversation? I take it the answers to those two questions are "Yes", and "No", in that order.
because they know that the public school system is a failure. they want everyone to be in it except for their kids.
the NIMBY arguement. like the kennedy clan and the windmills.
I haven't seen a single statistic to back up the assertion of this thread. Typical right-wingers go off on non-factual information.
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