Kingpin wrote:Personally I'm not a fan of the homeschooling idea: it's always concerned me that it may not be vetted well enough, and that there's too great a potential for the child's parents to inject their own biases/prejudices into what they'd be learning. That isn't to say that all homeschoolers do that, and that there aren't some schools that aren't being influenced by those with specific negative agendas, but when it comes to education, I prefer there to be some oversight.
You seem to be describing a version of homeschooling that I'm not familiar with, maybe homeschooling's different in the UK. Here there is plenty of oversight. First off you follow the public school's curriculum (which includes using the same textbooks,) therefore fulfilling the same learning outcomes, secondly a teacher comes to the house several times throughout the term to check progress and grade your work. You acquire the exact same academic knowledge as a kid in school.
Your argument about biases doesn't make sense, biases form regardless of whether a kid's in public school or not--that is a
fact. Parents have a direct influence on their kids no matter what, and the odds of home schooled kids deciding to think independently of their parent's thoughts is the same as kids in school. The only thing school can do is teach about biases and stereotypes, but like I said home schooled kids have to learn that stuff too. Hey, isn't it possible parents home school their kids to shelter them from biases?
Anyways, my point was that public school works for some, maybe even many, but not all; and I believe that for some there are better alternatives such as homeschooling (although not the homeschooling you described.)
timeware wrote:I see the reason for homeschooling. Especially in cities like Detroit, Chicago. Safety reasons can be a factor in this especially if you have children with disabilities that are constantly bullied and you have principals, teacher's that just don't give a shit.
For me allergies were a deciding factor.
I'm only saying that due to the massive "spontaneous protests" that have been going on since Trump was elected.
I was thinking about that when writing my bit on biases above. Apparently kids around here started chanting "Not my president" during one class.