Mr. Mudkip
Banned
Of course not. Nothings bad about it.
How would the parent having a degree help them to educate their kid? All teaching is is reading the information to your kid out of a book/having them read it and assigning them work, you don't need 4 years of college to do that.The parent should be tested for knowledge first.
Or should have a certain degree.
There are books specifically designed to make it easier for homeschooling parents to teach. I have no problem homeschooling because my mom bought DVDs that I watch the lectures on.Generally if you're going to teach something you should know how to do it. Most kids these days can't just have something read to them and then be expected to know it. Just take a look at a typical HS math class.
A parent who has no education in Calculus for example can't just teach their kid from a textbook. :/
As for homeschooling, yes, I believe you should have some sort of educational degree. It's too often that children fall behind. It shouldn't be outright banned, but regulations need to become stricter.
God, I wished it had been that easy when I taught fourth-graders that one year.All teaching is is reading the information to your kid out of a book/having them read it and assigning them work, you don't need 4 years of college to do that.
There are homeschool groups for socialization too. I have 19 real-life friends.Choosing the path of education over a social life...as far as I know...isn't illegal. Being home-schooled often leads to loneliness because you lack peers...but that's not illegal. It's not illegal to be a social outcast, so why should it be illegal to be home-schooled. Your still getting the same education aren't you? If your tutor is good enough...
Then what does a teacher have to do that's so hard?God, I wished it had been that easy when I taught fourth-graders that one year.
If I were your student, I'd say, "Um, I can READ myself. What are YOU there for?" To be more effective, a teacher should do more than just let the books do their work for them.
There are homeschool groups for socialization too. I have 19 real-life friends.
Then what does a teacher have to do that's so hard?
THe person teaching it needs to have some type of knowledge of whatever they're teaching, unless basically, your just blurting out stuff you don't really know to your kid.
I agree that I wouldn't be able to learn enough from a regular textbook, but there are textbooks designed for homeschoolers that have all of the questions kids generally ask already answered. Also, why should anyone be forced to have an education?I'm sorry, but the argument that the teacher doesn't need to understand the subjects is such absolute rubbish that I have to post. I have never been homeschooled, I'm going into S4 (Scotland) of secondary school after the holidays (for those to whom that means nothing, I'm 14 and I'll be sitting my first public exams), and it is so incredibly common in a lesson that someone won't understand something. I'm one of the top students in the classes I chose, and even I sometimes can't learn something just from reading the textbook, let alone the people in the class who aren't as good at the subject. Everyone has different learning methods which work for them, and in the majority of cases that I have seen, reading the textbook will be insufficient and they will have to ask the teacher questions about certain subjects. If at this stage the teacher's teaching qualifications are that they have the capability to read, a problem is reached. I agree that, if the teacher is qualified, homeschooling is fine, but this is so imperative that I had to comment. Surely others must agree that a school lesson where no one has to ask a question of the teacher or have a simpler or more in-depth explanation of what the textbook says is very rare?
There are homeschool groups kids can use to get socialization, I have almost 20 friends myself. Also, how is not having enough socialization isn't enough reason to illegelize it? Especially if the kid wants to homeschool.Firstly, home-schooling lowers the social abilities of the children enrolled in its courses. When a child does not go to school and does not interact with children their age, their social development is hindered. I'm not saying home-schoold children have no social interaction, I'm just saying its obvious that they have much less (and in some cases, none at all) than the children who go to school and learn in a classroom surrounded by peers. There are numerous things that home-schooled children can do to achieve social interaction (Sports, camps, scouts) but on the whole, none of these activities compare to an actual school setting. This lack of social interaction affects the children's ability to make friends and relate to people later in life, eventually becoming a liability.
I agree that I wouldn't be able to learn enough from a regular textbook, but there are textbooks designed for homeschoolers that have all of the questions kids generally ask already answered. Also, why should anyone be forced to have an education?
There are homeschool groups kids can use to get socialization, I have almost 20 friends myself. Also, how is not having enough socialization isn't enough reason to illegelize it? Especially if the kid wants to homeschool.
There are homeschool groups kids can use to get socialization, I have almost 20 friends myself. Also, how is not having enough socialization isn't enough reason to illegelize it? Especially if the kid wants to homeschool.
My cousin (who goes to a private school) has 30-something friends, not too many more than me.I know there are groups that home-schoolers can socialize within, I'm saying they don't have the experience school gives them. And 20 friends isn't comparable to a regularly schooled child, who have exponentially more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeschoolWikipedia said:In 2003, the National Home Education Research Institute conducted a survey of 7,300 U.S. adults who had been homeschooled (5,000 for more than seven years). Their findings included: * Homeschool graduates are active and involved in their communities. 71% participate in an ongoing community service activity, like coaching a sports team, volunteering at a school, or working with a church or neighborhood association, compared with 37% of U.S. adults of similar ages from a traditional education background. * Homeschool graduates are more involved in civic affairs and vote in much higher percentages than their peers. 76% of those surveyed between the ages of 18 and 24 voted within the last five years, compared with only 29% of the corresponding U.S. populace. The numbers are even greater in older age groups, with voting levels not falling below 95%, compared with a high of 53% for the corresponding U.S. populace. * 58.9% report that they are "very happy" with life, compared with 27.6% for the general U.S. population. 73.2% find life "exciting", compared with 47.3%.[71]
If that wasn't enough reason to "illegelize" it, then perhaps we should look at how home-schooled children spell illegalize (cheap shot).
Maybe the reason you "cant think of a name" is because you our home-schooled (Cheap shot, sorry).
But on the whole, I think that not enough socialization is plenty reason to ban it, but if you read my entire post, you'd know that that was not the only crux of my arguement. Its about a learning atmosphere.