I have been running into more negative opinions on home education lately.
This lifestyle has been too good to us and I feel a responsibility to take apart uneducated attacks on homeschooling.
Following is a social media attack and my response (I get a little hot).
“Specialized instruction or accomodations”? This is the super power of home education. Schools are based on homogenized patterns. Parents in a home education environment spend all of their efforts on specializing the learning environment for their children.
Socialization:
I co-created an in-person homeschool group in 2020. We welcomed families of all educational stripes. Many of those were schooled and had been abandoned by not just school, but every institution. Their social lives were destroyed and no one cared. We created a social community that has grown to over 1,000 local families. We have met every week for four years and many other groups, clubs, field trips, and extracurricular activities have been born out of ours.
Our families create voluntary bonds, our children are not forced to “socialize” with each other nine months out of the year. School unnaturally silos children into narrow age groups. No where in life does this happen. Our children socialize across generations, including more time to spend with grandparents (my boys have learned about London during the Blitzkrieg from eyewitnesses).
Mental health? What’s the suicide rate doing in schools? My boys just had a government schooled friend, a fucking child, kill himself. That system needs to be dissected and examined for all the medications being pushed by mediocre teachers and nurses.
You are clearly uneducated on how children learn. I did not “teach” my first son how to read after first grade. I never taught my second son. The younger is now 13 years old and burns through books. Curricula are an invention of a system that ignores individuality. Children have curious minds. All one needs to do is pay close attention and feed that curiosity.
Your vitriol betrays an ignorance concerning home education. School has taught you to mock what you don’t understand: if it isn’t on the test, it isn’t important. Your teachers failed you.