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My SIL has a BA in childhood development and Masters in Education. So, you'd think she be ideal person to homeschool... but she's not at all. Absolutely no patience, she has her own ideas about how things are "done" and she's completely in denial about her children's issues. There's lots of behavioral problems with both of them. One has a speech impediment and people including the child's own father cannot understand him. SIL refused to take him to a pathologist because she says she understands him and that's all that matters. SIL intentionally isolates her children as she wants to control and do away with "bad influence".
Conversely, in that same town, I have a friend who hasn't even gone to community college (but did graduate from HS) who homeschool both of her boys and her niece. They are very well behaved, bright with a great aptitude for learning and have excellent manners/social skills. Quote frankly, they'd make best posterchildren for the homeschool argument.
Having a degree really means nothing... even an idiot can get one.
My SIL has a BA in childhood development and Masters in Education. So, you'd think she be ideal person to homeschool... but she's not at all. Absolutely no patience, she has her own ideas about how things are "done" and she's completely in denial about her children's issues. There's lots of behavioral problems with both of them. One has a speech impediment and people including the child's own father cannot understand him. SIL refused to take him to a pathologist because she says she understands him and that's all that matters. SIL intentionally isolates her children as she wants to control and do away with "bad influence".
Conversely, in that same town, I have a friend who hasn't even gone to community college (but did graduate from HS) who homeschool both of her boys and her niece. They are very well behaved, bright with a great aptitude for learning and have excellent manners/social skills. Quote frankly, they'd make best posterchildren for the homeschool argument.
Having a degree really means nothing... even an idiot can get one.
Specific examples are not very useful in a larger debate like this. Let me ask this.
You have to pick one person to teach your child. All you know is one has a degree and one doesn't. Who do you pick?
No. I have a friend who has homeschooled her children, but she takes them to Mathnasium for mathematics lessons and tutoring. She freely admits that she cannot do beyond Algebra. Her 14 year old son is now doing Geometry, and advanced Calculus, and chemistry. She pays tutors.
If you are going to homeschool, don't cheat your kids out of their potential, by your own limits.
No. I have a friend who has homeschooled her children, but she takes them to Mathnasium for mathematics lessons and tutoring. She freely admits that she cannot do beyond Algebra. Her 14 year old son is now doing Geometry, and advanced Calculus, and chemistry. She pays tutors.
If you are going to homeschool, don't cheat your kids out of their potential, by your own limits.
It tells you they are more academically accomplished. Kimd of important for educating a child.
"Academically accomplished"... doesn't indicate intelligence in such subject, just that they're trained. I've come across enough people who trained/opted for careers/degrees they really should not have. So no, again it doesn't tell me anything. Being trained/having a degree doesn't trump a person who has intelligence, affinity and aptitude.
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degree or not. 
