RE: home-schooling
September 19, 2016 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2016 at 8:19 am by SenpaiNoticeMeYouBlindShmuck.)
I was taught at home, and while I can't speak for anyone else it didn't do me any harm, I mean I've got a degree and plans to keep studying.
I wasn't taught at home for religious reasons, it was more moving to a new country my mother (quite rightly as it has turned out) didn't think the UK education system was as good as back home, and the statistics then and today support that. There was, and still is here, an obsession with English and Maths; kids do precious little else outside of it and they still rarely leave school competent in those fields.
It was a way of ensuring I had a fairly broad curriculum, I did study the same things children in state schools did although I did plenty of extra things too. Classics, Theology, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Law. So much time is wasted in a school that if you put your head down you can get through a lot more than the on average 20 minute main activities you get in a hour class here.
I don't think it would work for everyone, for some children school is the only social time and the only introduction to routine and consistency they get. For a child who has an active social life or doesn't like other people and one who can be kept to a strict routine by a parent who has the time it is far superior.
Seriously, even if you're only up to a basic level if you've the determination and persistence to study up yourself before preparing a lesson for your child I'd wager you could do a better job than most teachers; for the simple fact younger children are hardwired to listen to their parents and not other random adults who are also watching thirty other children.
I wasn't taught at home for religious reasons, it was more moving to a new country my mother (quite rightly as it has turned out) didn't think the UK education system was as good as back home, and the statistics then and today support that. There was, and still is here, an obsession with English and Maths; kids do precious little else outside of it and they still rarely leave school competent in those fields.
It was a way of ensuring I had a fairly broad curriculum, I did study the same things children in state schools did although I did plenty of extra things too. Classics, Theology, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Law. So much time is wasted in a school that if you put your head down you can get through a lot more than the on average 20 minute main activities you get in a hour class here.
I don't think it would work for everyone, for some children school is the only social time and the only introduction to routine and consistency they get. For a child who has an active social life or doesn't like other people and one who can be kept to a strict routine by a parent who has the time it is far superior.
Seriously, even if you're only up to a basic level if you've the determination and persistence to study up yourself before preparing a lesson for your child I'd wager you could do a better job than most teachers; for the simple fact younger children are hardwired to listen to their parents and not other random adults who are also watching thirty other children.
