Time Magazine
Johanna SanInocencio
I finally accessed the article.
Which can be great.
This looks like a sentence fragment to me...
"Home schooling is a social threat to public education," says Chris Lubienski, who teaches at Iowa State University's college of education. "It is taking some of the most affluent and articulate parents out of the system. These are the parents who know how to get things done with administrators."
So, if we were putting our kids in a private school it would be ok? When my children were in public school, I was looked upon as the pest by the administration, because I would not keep my mouth shut when I disagreed with something. This statement assumes homeschoolers are more afffluent than public school parents and I believe that has been proved otherwise.
But as the most committed parents leave, the schools may falter more, giving the larger community yet another reason to fret over their condition.
It is our responsibility to ensure everyone gets a fair education? I thought that is why public schools were started in the first place.
The softening economy may also begin to thin the ranks of home schoolers, many of whom are middle-class families that can't afford private schools; if stay-at-home teaching parents have to take a job, free public school will start to look very inviting.
According to the Federal Government, up to three-quarters of the families that home school today say they do so primarily because, like so many of us, they are worried about the quality of their children's education.
According to the first statement, finances will change our mind, but the second states homeschoolers motivation is quality of education. Make up your mind.
But imagine what American public education would look like if parents who currently home school flooded their local schools with all that mighty dedication instead. One doesn't diminish a home-schooling parent's sacrifice for his child to note that he may also be abdicating some of his responsibilities to his community.
I thought one of my greatest responsibilities to the community was to raise up responsible children who know how to give back to the community instead of destroy it.
In 1992 psychotherapist Larry Shyers did a study while at the University of Florida in which he closely examined the behavior of 35 home schoolers and 35 public schoolers. He found that home schoolers were generally more patient and less competitive. They tended to introduce themselves to one another more; they didn't fight as much. And the home schoolers were much more prone to exchange addresses and phone numbers. In short, they behaved like miniature adults.
So, according to this psychotherapist, patience, communication and respect for other people are undesirable traits in children? Do they have to act rude, competitive and combatative with one another to be considered "normal"?
"There's something very efficient about [traditional] schooling, and home schooling isn't exactly efficient."
If I had $3000.+ per student to spend, My children would have a much more "efficient" education than the public school could ever give them.
Too many public school administrators silently agree with what Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association, says in objecting to any public expenditure on home schoolers: "Putting money into home schooling is throwing money down a rathole. You have no idea if that money is being spent properly or children are benefiting."
Thats funny, I feel that way about public education...
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
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Which can be great.
This looks like a sentence fragment to me...
"Home schooling is a social threat to public education," says Chris Lubienski, who teaches at Iowa State University's college of education. "It is taking some of the most affluent and articulate parents out of the system. These are the parents who know how to get things done with administrators."
So, if we were putting our kids in a private school it would be ok? When my children were in public school, I was looked upon as the pest by the administration, because I would not keep my mouth shut when I disagreed with something. This statement assumes homeschoolers are more afffluent than public school parents and I believe that has been proved otherwise.
But as the most committed parents leave, the schools may falter more, giving the larger community yet another reason to fret over their condition.
It is our responsibility to ensure everyone gets a fair education? I thought that is why public schools were started in the first place.
The softening economy may also begin to thin the ranks of home schoolers, many of whom are middle-class families that can't afford private schools; if stay-at-home teaching parents have to take a job, free public school will start to look very inviting.
According to the Federal Government, up to three-quarters of the families that home school today say they do so primarily because, like so many of us, they are worried about the quality of their children's education.
According to the first statement, finances will change our mind, but the second states homeschoolers motivation is quality of education. Make up your mind.
But imagine what American public education would look like if parents who currently home school flooded their local schools with all that mighty dedication instead. One doesn't diminish a home-schooling parent's sacrifice for his child to note that he may also be abdicating some of his responsibilities to his community.
I thought one of my greatest responsibilities to the community was to raise up responsible children who know how to give back to the community instead of destroy it.
In 1992 psychotherapist Larry Shyers did a study while at the University of Florida in which he closely examined the behavior of 35 home schoolers and 35 public schoolers. He found that home schoolers were generally more patient and less competitive. They tended to introduce themselves to one another more; they didn't fight as much. And the home schoolers were much more prone to exchange addresses and phone numbers. In short, they behaved like miniature adults.
So, according to this psychotherapist, patience, communication and respect for other people are undesirable traits in children? Do they have to act rude, competitive and combatative with one another to be considered "normal"?
"There's something very efficient about [traditional] schooling, and home schooling isn't exactly efficient."
If I had $3000.+ per student to spend, My children would have a much more "efficient" education than the public school could ever give them.
Too many public school administrators silently agree with what Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association, says in objecting to any public expenditure on home schoolers: "Putting money into home schooling is throwing money down a rathole. You have no idea if that money is being spent properly or children are benefiting."
Thats funny, I feel that way about public education...
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
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R Meyers
But imagine what American public education would look like if parents who currently home school flooded their local schools with all that mighty dedication instead. One doesn't diminish a home-schooling parent's sacrifice for his child to note that he may also be abdicating some of his responsibilities to his community.
I just rejoined this list but had to respond right off the bat that I must be confused.......I thought my responsibility was that MY children were my responsibility, not everyone else's. I'm sorry if me choosing what is best for my child leads someone to feel that I'm somehow neglecting my great civic duty but I was always under the estimation that my family comes first before community because if you can't provide for them then how can you be any good to society???
Rachel
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I just rejoined this list but had to respond right off the bat that I must be confused.......I thought my responsibility was that MY children were my responsibility, not everyone else's. I'm sorry if me choosing what is best for my child leads someone to feel that I'm somehow neglecting my great civic duty but I was always under the estimation that my family comes first before community because if you can't provide for them then how can you be any good to society???
Rachel
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There are so many fallacies in the article it is hard to know where to
begin to critique it. For every example they gave about the negatives of
homeschooling, I can think of a similar example in schooling. As for the
comment about a parent understanding algebra for the first time, if that
parent is a product of public school, why don't they already understand
algebra?
Mary Ellen
Success is a process of living.
It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure, the moments of
peace.
Success is not a destination that you ever reach.
Success is the quality of the journey.
begin to critique it. For every example they gave about the negatives of
homeschooling, I can think of a similar example in schooling. As for the
comment about a parent understanding algebra for the first time, if that
parent is a product of public school, why don't they already understand
algebra?
Mary Ellen
Success is a process of living.
It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure, the moments of
peace.
Success is not a destination that you ever reach.
Success is the quality of the journey.
M and L Hand
Ooooh. Good point!
Laurie
As for the comment about a parent understanding algebra for the first time, if that parent is a product of public school, why don't they already understand algebra?
Mary Ellen
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Laurie
As for the comment about a parent understanding algebra for the first time, if that parent is a product of public school, why don't they already understand algebra?
Mary Ellen
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I know kids who have to take it 2 or 3 years or take it in summer
school. Parents seem to see the light when I ask them what THEY use
algebra for, but feel intimidated by the school system. I think
sometimes they literally just want to keep them busy, in regards to
summer school.
Laura
they already understand algebra?
school. Parents seem to see the light when I ask them what THEY use
algebra for, but feel intimidated by the school system. I think
sometimes they literally just want to keep them busy, in regards to
summer school.
Laura
> As for the comment about a parent understanding algebra for thefirst time, if that parent is a product of public school, why don't
they already understand algebra?
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