Home schooling....pros and cons?

[psyah]

Re: Home schooling…pros and cons?

@khattichic

Am neither for nor against home schooling. I have friends who are doing it successfully and friends for whom it did not work.
I would just like to add that Psyah Bhai, it is extremely unfair of you to imply that children that go to traditional/public schools are not as intelligent or worldly as their home schooled counterparts. My 9 yr old can spout off facts and a literal biography of Galileo so fast it would make your head spin. The same for Martin Luther King Jr, Einstein & Picasso. And he can tell you exactly who Justin Bieber is

It’s because I’ve fostered the love of learning in him and my kids have been blessed with AMAZING teachers and educators in the public school system.

Peppermint, I don’t know where you live, but on the US there are more options now then ever for schooling. Charter schools, magnet schools, Montessori etc. I’m sorry you had a bad experience with your schooling but there are an equal number of us who had positive experiences.

If you do end up homeschooling,I do recommend you join a co-op, to give you and your kids the socialization and interaction they could be missing out on

Sister khattichic

I have not said that people who go to school are not intelligent - I am simply not crediting the school for that intelligence … Rather my stance behind home education is far more raw nuts and bolts than that … it is about critically thinking about the world we live in today - and whether these norms are right … it questions our lives and our choices as parents - it is far more of a deeper issue than schooled children vs home schooled children … it is about breaking out of the Matrix … for the parents moreso than the children.