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Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by andrewstuart »

Home schooling is a real burden on many parents who aren't professional teachers of course and are pulled in many directions.

One of the most exciting emerging trends in home schooling is to pool the resources of multiple home schooling parents.

It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day. So home schooling parents can team up and share the load a little bit. This means the kids gather together at one parents house because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching. "Grouped home schooling" also solves the usual criticism of home schooling which is the lack of social contact between kids.

Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist.

It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for group home schooling, so another exciting development in modern home schooling is when a location is found somewhere in the community for it to happen. Often there's a room available at the church. Alternatively, if the parents pool an amount of money each then such a location can be leased long term and can be set up with desks and chairs for the kids to sit at.

When you combine all these forward looking advances in home schooling you can see that home schooling has come a long way since the 1970's when kids sat at the kitchen table with mum teaching the lessons.

Exciting times for home schooling!

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by slashdev »

cogman10 wrote: post #76

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My brother and I were homeschooled after a point, but it had nothing to do with this. We followed the same curriculum and wrote the same exams at the end of grade 12. We scored well above average and had no trouble getting into university. I was on the Dean’s list at university and my brother scored in the 97th percentile on the SATs.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by glitchc »

andrewstuart wrote: post #111

Home schooling is a real burden on many parents who aren't professional teachers of course and are pulled in many directions. One of the most exciting emerging trends in home schooling is to pool the resources of multiple home schooling parents. It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day. So home schooling parents can team up and share the…

>This means the kids gather together in one location because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching.

>Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist.

>It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for group home schooling, so another exciting development in modern home schooling is when a location is found somewhere in the community for it to happen. Again, if the parents pool an amount of money each then such a location can be leased long term and can be set up with desks and chairs for the kids to sit at.

This is tongue in cheek I presume, as it's sounding just like a regular school.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by grug_htmx_dev »

glitchc wrote: post #113
andrewstuart wrote: post #111

Home schooling is a real burden on many parents who aren't professional teachers of course and are pulled in many directions. One of the most exciting emerging trends in home schooling is to pool the resources of multiple home schooling parents. It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day. So home schooling parents can team up and share the…

>This means the kids gather together in one location because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching. >Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist. >It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for…

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Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by woodruffw »

rayiner wrote: post #80
cogman10 wrote: post #76

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I think that's a lazy take. It's not the facts, it's the worldview. Socializing children into your moral and religious worldview is something that's widely recognized as a human right: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/... ("The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral e…

Homeschooling is, to a first approximation, the most individualistic approach to a child's education possible.

If your goal is to instill values of mutual cooperation, a sense of obligation, etc. in a pluralistic society, I'd think that you'd want to send them to a public school in a large city. That's what the last ~200 years of American immigrants and children of immigrants have more or less done.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by robertlagrant »

treis wrote: post #31
pierat wrote: post #3

Synposis: Shitty Silly-Con valley company is selling "teaching homeschoolers" under the guise of "microschooling" and "guides" instead of proper teachers. Reading in any of these scam companies, and you'll find quickly that they are not schools, and these are not accredited teachers. But again, deregulation and demolishment of public sector structures and laws to further private interests IS the point, as we'll see.…

This doesn't accurately reflect the reality of the situation. Atlanta Public Schools (my local district) spends $22k per student and average teacher pay is like $60k. Get 7 kids together and you can hire a teacher with 10s of thousand left over for other stuff. Or send your kid into a class room with 20-30 other kids. Some of this is cheating by not dealing with the added expense of special needs kids. But a lot more…

> Atlanta Public Schools (my local district) spends $22k per student

If you homeschool, do you get that money back to spend on education?

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by aaomidi »

mikhmha wrote: post #68
sfRattan wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why are people in the US so against public schools? > Don't worry, we share similar views. No, we clearly do not. If you held similar views to mine, you would not have posed the question , nor followed it with a false dilemma between breaking down regional identities and, "everything sucks. And there is no cohesion between peoples." > And yet, I went through public schooling, learned the "national" identity but I s…

You read too much into my initial post. I would not have been so blunt if it wasn't to point out the great irony of public schooling and its inception coinciding with modern nation states. I pose the hyperbole question because I see the greatest opposition to public schooling from Americans and religious peoples. "everything sucks. And there is no cohesion between peoples." Because at the same time I understand the b…

> The nations of today where this process of state centralization did not occur, or occurred under coercion from colonial powers are much worse off.

You're dropping these opinions as if they are facts.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by cogman10 »

slashdev wrote: post #112
cogman10 wrote: post #76

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My brother and I were homeschooled after a point, but it had nothing to do with this. We followed the same curriculum and wrote the same exams at the end of grade 12. We scored well above average and had no trouble getting into university. I was on the Dean’s list at university and my brother scored in the 97th percentile on the SATs.

And, to be clear, I'm not saying there aren't legitimate reasons to home-school nor that it can't be done well.

Heck, I'd even say that after essential skills like reading are mastered, homeschooling can lead to great results.

A lot of that depends on the motivation (or lack thereof) of the parents.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by el_benhameen »

jawns wrote: post #2

We are in our ninth year of homeschooling. My wife and I attended private and public schools and grew up with typical biases against homeschooling, e.g. they lack social skills. When we got married, we always assumed we'd send our kids to traditional schools. What we learned, though, is that homeschooling has changed since we were in school. Back then, it was a niche, and the sort of parents who chose to homeschool u…

If you’re willing to share, I’m curious to hear what changed your mind about homeschooling and what made you choose to homeschool your kids.

Re: For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

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Post by soulofmischief »

grug_htmx_dev wrote: post #114
glitchc wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This means the kids gather together in one location because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching. >Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist. >It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for…

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Sounds like a private school.
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