I Think Our Kids Aren't Being Educated

... Which is why I support Homeshooling so much. Not always, as some parents are too ignorant or lazy to ensure their kids aren't just sitting around in their pajamas all day doing nothing, but if parents were as dedicated to their children as they were in the old days, it's a much better solution.

I found it incredibly ludicrous that I graduated Middle school and went to High school for a while and knew nothing about politics, government, or law. They expected me to go out and vote at 18, without teaching me a single thing about politics! They expect children to get into University and go on to have a career and do banking and get a house and car, meanwhile they are taught none of this at school. You could argue that that's the parents job, but people these days rarely teach their kids anything, they think that's what school is for.

My children will have the government curriculum, and then I'll build on that to form my own curriculum which I more approve of. This will include Latin, French, Politics, World History, Economics, cooking, farming/gardening among many others.

I've gotten a lot of bad reactions to the fact that all of my children will be homeschooled though, so I wanted to explain my personal plan, to explain a few things and to make it clear that none of my children will be forced into homeschooling. If they ever express they want to try school, they will be allowed, and they will be taught the rest of my own curriculum at home. But they can try out school if they want to. My children will have lots of freedom contrary to the traditional and strict ways I am going to raise them.

Also, they won't just be sitting around all day being in socialized. Although I know many homeschooled kids who are. That's on the parents though, not on homeschooling itself. My children will have a school time uniform and we will dedicate a certain room of the house that will serve as our "school room." They will also participate in sports and activities with other children. I'll ensure they are very socialized, just with people I approve of, not random bratty kids at school who will influence them for the worst.

Does anyone here homeschool their children? I'd love to talk if you do. 😊

will999 · 70-79, M

Hi again Furiousfrog. Like most people I face constraints of time and money that make it very difficult for me to attend to everything that needs to be done. It is very easy for ordinary people to say to them self that they have no direct control over people and things outside of themselves and therefore their kid(s) just have to make the best of whatever paltry education the government of our brave new world can still afford to pay for after financing numerous foreign wars and giving generous tax cuts to the corporate sector trying to buy favour from the rich and leaving the poorest to wait for the 'trickle down' effect of that economic policy to kick in. For me the biggest challenge by far was seeing that the state school system was failing our son so badly and that there [i]was[/i] something I could do about it other than bankroll an expensive private school alternative which is not necessarily always a [i]better[/i] education. I could not afford to take time off work to tutor our son myself nor was I qualified to satisfy all of the statutory requirements on my own but by teaming up with other responsible and concerned parents our pooled resources and shared experience meant that we could provide our kids with the schooling they deserved in a fairer and more reasonable way than what they had been offered at their local state school.