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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Home Schooling = No Schooling?
I'll admit it: I'm into reality television. Cheaters, Elimidate, and Wife Swap are great brain candy following a long day of doing whatever it is that I do.
I’ve learned a lot from reality television. Just recently, there were two episodes of Wife Swap where one of the families was into home schooling. Now, I know a lot of home schoolers. All the ones I know are bright, motivated, and well-read. But in Wife Swap, something interesting was happening--the homeschooling mothers in both families were simply playing with the kids all day. Instruction, at most, consisted of one hour of work! The best part of the show is where the husband from the high achieving family confronted the home schooling mom. He said, the kids did like two problems in home school, and that was it! The mother was speechless. Busted! Ha! Does anyone have stories of homenoschooling to share? |
5 Comments:
I was home schooled, as were most of my close friends. Like public or private schooling, it can be done well, or it can be done badly. I've never heard of something as pathetic as the story that you relate. On the whole, the kids that I've known that are or were home schooled are significantly ahead, are far better socialized, and go on to be significantly more in control of their lives than their public- and private-schooled peers.
10:25 AM, August 25, 2006
Yes, that's been my experience too. It never occurred to me that lazy people would home school, and then not do anything all day. It seems like lazy people would just put their kids in school and be done with it.
But it does say something about inspections, testing, and standards. These kids (of the lazy parents) have done nothing wrong, but they're going to be totally unprepared for college, life, etc.
1:07 PM, August 25, 2006
to waldo jaquith,
it appears that you think that you and the likes are in all way superior to people that are educated in any other way. I think you might have a major problem there. Could such a bizarre sense of unfounded superiority be a result of home schooling?
1:27 PM, August 25, 2006
Buck-
At least in our part of the country, HS'ing is frequently used to 'correct' the lack of overt religiosity in the public schools. A lot of parents don't want their kids learning evil-ution, but don't have the money to send them to a church-run private school.
Alternately/in addition, a number of VA counties closed their public schools in the 50's and 60's to avoid compusory racial integration, then set up strings of home-based private schools to keep the white kids from having to learn with anyone else.
I'm not mentioning these examples to denigrate the jobs of motivated and dedicated parents that do a good job, but to suggest that there might be alternate reasons for wanting to keep your kids out of the public system that could override innate laziness.
2:11 PM, August 25, 2006
Uhm, Wife Swap is not brain candy, it's brain crack. Sure, it feels good, but in reality, it's killing brain cells.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
The unschooling/raw-food/whatever family - Are they happy? Are the kids happy? Then who the hell cares that their kids aren't brainiacs (and, is there proof those kids aren't? I didn't see the show).
There are thousands, MILLIONS of kids in our country who get churned through our school systems, getting "taught" nearly every day, made to do the work, made to be in school, and still can't read or write or do math or get a job.
And someone here wants that same system that can't even handle its own failures to step in and handle the failures of homeschoolers?
Sure, sometimes homeschoolers enter into the adult world and are in for a bit of a shock and need to catch up. But how many kids graduate high school - and have the SAME problem? And what happens to those kids? Same as the ones in homeschooling.
Except, the public school kids are CONVINCED that they can't learn because they've been taught and taught and taught and they still didn't get it.
At least, with the unschoolers, according to your view, they weren't "taught" anything, so they think that their deficit is from not being taught.
I would think it would be much easier to catch up when one thinks they weren't taught, than if they think they can't learn.
We can't catch every failure. All we can do is provide the resources for those who are on a search for what they need.
http://justenough.wordpress.com - my edu blog.
8:43 PM, February 24, 2007
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