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StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why homeschool education is best education.
Teehee, come at me with the downvotes, drones.
I’ve been thinking about it long and hard, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a lousy teacher, and on the other hand, I’ve faced a rather limited pool of tutors 😓
Actually, hiring is hell, almost like the “dating” market. Only this time, it’s not even your own life at stake.
My wife isn’t a certified teacher, she just goes online and finds educational resources and prints them out. My daughter is learning at the 4th grade level. She’s only 5 years old.
Before my wife and I had kids we had this discussion about public education, private institutions, and home schooling. If private institutions were affordable, we will go that route, if not, then home schooling. I told her public education is not on the table, ever. It is an institution that keeps the minds of children dull, lethargic, and incapable of advancing because the curriculum provided is static, all children work at the same pace.
When I was a child, my teacher in 2nd grade told my mother I had ADHD. That at first, I was an excellent student, I did all my work, then all of a sudden I had a change in behavior. Come to find out, I was bored. The pace of learning was too slow in the classroom. And thank fk my mom didn’t put me on any meds. My wife was the same way in high school… she was skipping school so much she was about to get expelled but she explained to the dean that all her homework was completed, all got good grades and she always came to school to take quizzes and tests and those scores were never below a B+. And that anytime she got anything less than an A she would do extra credit work to make up for it. They allowed her to continue her high school education and she graduated as one of the valedictorians, meaning a perfect 4.0 GPA.
All I’m saying is, public education gives you the bare minimum to become a wage slave. The institution is outdated, plain and simple.
While this all seems reasonable I would like to point out a couple things. First that ADHD is a real thing that people struggle with, and many are not diagnosed until after they finish school (or not at all in some cases). So yeah sometimes their are spurious diagnosis given by teachers (who aren’t even qualified to give a diagnosis btw), but on the whole it’s under diagnosed.
I also think it’s good to point out that in a good education system you should have things like ability sets and G&T programs. When I went to school they had sets in secondary education at least, but not in primary education for some reason. Little funding for G&T programs as well. This doesn’t make the greatest amount of sense, especially for people like you and your wife.
Homeschooling helps kids acquire social skills and learn how to interact with others, like not calling people you’ve never met “drones”
I went to public school, I explained that public school for me was too slow, as too with my wife. Why would I limit my children? And homeschooling doesn’t interfere with social skills.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In some specific cases it might be, but a lot of parents are doing it for the wrong reasons, and I’m not sure I’ve ever met a homeschooled kid that didn’t seem a bit off socially.
StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well keep in mind that homeschooling doesn’t exclude extracurriculars. In my town, almost on a daily basis there’s some sort of child learning activities, museums, planetariums, gardening, nature exploring etc… These activities are done with other homeschooled children and children going on field trips.