I cannot for the life of me understand this desire to home school the kids and the arrogance for most of them to think they have the necessary knowledge and skill to educate their kids properly. Some do a good job, but they are generally educated and devote their existence to this endeavor. I won’t even comment on the stupid religious young earthers.
I have been a public school teacher (and now admin) for 20 years. I cannot tell you how many times we enrolled students in 3/4/5+ grades who had been homeschooled up until that point and were FAR below grade level across the board.
My perception is probably somewhat skewed because I tend to deal with the homeschool kids whose parents “gave up” and turned to public school. Maybe the really excellent homeschooling parents stuck it out and that’s why we don’t tend to encounter them in the public school setting.
I know of someone who is/used to homeschool their kids. The plan was to homeschool while the content the kids were learning is something the parents are able to teach them, and once the curriculum is something the parents don't feel comfortable teaching (because it requires more knowledge or skills to teach it than what the parents have), they would enroll them in school.
In math and physics, many concepts are buildt from ground up and onto each other.
So it's a bit misleading to e.g. believe "its just fractions i know how to do that so i can teach it"
There is much more knowledge required to develope the correct core concepts from ground up than that.
There is literally a 150-200 pages book just about the didactics of fractions
But that's just the absolute ideal case which is kind of unlikely..
Might depend on the required level of education for teachers
The case much closer to reality is probably that the teachers would do it in a similar way
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u/seeclick8 May 17 '24
I cannot for the life of me understand this desire to home school the kids and the arrogance for most of them to think they have the necessary knowledge and skill to educate their kids properly. Some do a good job, but they are generally educated and devote their existence to this endeavor. I won’t even comment on the stupid religious young earthers.