Home schooling....pros and cons?

[psyah]

Re: Home schooling…pros and cons?

@queer

this is the reason majority of homeschooling parents in the US give too. they dont want their kids exposed to govt propaganda, minorities both religious and ethnic, the godlessness of classrooms, liberal ideas like gun control and homosexuality.

and another thing - everyone thinks their kids are absolutely brilliant and need to be challenged more/ arent being given the right pedagogic approach to shine etc. good schools have ways to address such things if they are indeed genuine cases. parents aren’t the ones likely to make objective assessments of their kids abilities. a teacher who sees thousands of kids in his or her career knows a thing or two more than most parents.

someone said they needed 2 hour time slots to really teach a kid. good luck getting any kid under 8 to listen to anything for more than 20-25 minutes at a time. no matter how good your content, kids aren’t built to sit and get indoctrinated like that. why would you want to experiment on a kid when there is a system or a group of systems in place?

Hey … we are not experimenting - the schools and system who test the kids like lab rats are the ones doing that themselves …

It seems you have a good idea of the reasons given by the home schoolers … your contention is that teachers can do a better a job … does the product of school - facts and figures really reflect that sentiment? What are the statistics of home educated children in suicides, health problems, money problems, grades … how much of the unemployed were schooled and how much were home educated? It is easy to throw these statements around … using some sort of rational thought process … let’s see you back them up now.

If I had to study one child’s behaviour or study 40 or 50 children’s behaviour in one week … are you saying that I would do a better job studying the many than I would for studying just the one? Is this line of argument really all that rational?