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. 😊

Furiousfrog · 31-35, M

Muld, well thank you.

But I'm going to beat a dead horse for a moment and probably put myself at odds with rising.

Even with the gamble of how well the parent can teach isn't good enough for me. Sure, I could take that risk. Outside of that risk I see too many impossible downsides to overcome.

Integrating children into society as productive citizens is important. I think the social downside great elapses the POSSIBLE benefit that the parent would make a better teacher then the professional teachers.

If kids are not faced with diversity of the communities around them, they will always struggle with social problems and have a harder time resolving differences from people of different cultural backgrounds.

It breads an us and them mentality where they will separate themselves from people of their own age group.

I hate our current education system as much as anyone else, but that doesn't mean that any other option is better than the status quo. Especially because of the state requirements to homeschool. You still must teach a similar class curriculum as seen in public schools. So what's the difference you want to make?

If you value religion to the point where you isolate yourself from society and isolate your children as well, then I worry about it.

If religion isn't the reason, then I'm really confused about what other reasons there are.

I don't hate the idea of homeschooling, but it does trouble me sometimes. I do discourage it.