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A ruling in February of 2008 was on its way to banning parents from home schooling their children without proper teaching credentials. Those in favor of home schooling were very against the decision, claiming that it would make California the "most restrictive of the 50 states" on the issue. Thousands of parents would be breaking the law when they chose to give their kids a one-on-one education by schooling them at home.
BUT the case has been reheard, and the decision overturned.
BUT the case has been reheard, and the decision overturned.
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Answered Yes, parents should be allowed to home school their children.
Yes parents should be able to home school their kids....as far as the excuse many use that they are not qualified, the same could go for many teachers today with the problem tenure brings, and the union, there are many unqualified teachers out there that should be fired, but are protected by tenure and the union....as far as social skills, many home schooled kids meet up with others and they do sports, music, dance, feild trips, etc together. My kids did all three, private, home school, and public school, and they are very well adjusted, and the only reason I let them finish out there schooling in a public school was because we moved to a small conservative town, with a small conservative public school. -
Answered Yes, parents should be allowed to home school their children.
California's idiotic legislators that presented the ban need to be replaced. Whoever, spearheaded this thing has to go. Simply, our country via the Federal level is given the right to a free and public education. Each state administers their school systems and has local governing rights. However, because we as citizens are given the ability to be educated via the public system there is no law saying that we can't deny public school. If you want to drop out of school and go to work full time, there is no law against that. So, to have home schooling as an alternative is the parents choice. Now, the state government wants to impede that by banning it and forcing their will on parents taking all decision making away by making it a criminal activity. Just plain overboard with this farcical legislation. I am glad that this was overturned and I hope other states will have the sense to not ban as well. -
Answered It really depends on the child...
...but even more than that, it depends on the parent. There are some people in this world that are barely fit to be parents, let alone be the sole provider of knowledge for their children. As long as there is a system in place to assure that the children get the proper levels of education, (i.e annual general aptitude exams by third parties) I see no problem whatsoever. My biggest concern would be that some of the more complex courses like chemistry, algebra, and biology would be lost on the average parent, and consequently, either glazed over or skipped entirely by a parent that was incapable of comprehending them. Conversely, though, I know plenty of teachers that have a "do it or don't, I get paid either way" mentality that is most certainly less likely to happen with home schooling. Also, home schooling allows a lot of parents to deflect unwanted exposure to things like premarital sex and drugs. The reality is that no two situations are alike and home schooling should most certainly be an option, but only after both parents and children have been evaluated and deemed capable of it. -
I don't agree with your statement but do respect that you gave your opinion on the matter.
If parents choose to home school it isn't particularly about how well qualified a parent is to teach their own children. This ban takes away the parents ability to choose. Parents that home school have options that the public system otherwise takes away via teachers, administrators, school policy, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Some of the benefits of home schooling is having one-on-one face time with your child and who knows your child better than the parent. Having the ability to not hinder a child's development and focus on areas of interest. If a child is good at math then they can learn more and without any stipulation or retaking the similar classes to fulfill a requirement. With modern technology, parents don't need to be chemist's or geniuses to be qualified to teach their own children. You know what they need to do? They outsource like most large companies. That means they can find Chemistry tutors online.
I agree with deflecting problems like sex and drugs as well. I would say the negative impact to home schooling would be children not having great social skills or playing many organized sports. But... Then again.... I am the product of public schooling and don't know about that either. -
Answered Yes, parents should be allowed to home school their children.
That's good to hear, I'm considering home schooling my children (when I have them). There's not a whole lot I gained from public schooling past 7th grade. Most of the curriculum was just recycled during my high school years. We seriously had to go over verbs and nouns in my 11th grade English class. I was forced to take algebra for 3 years in a row (after passing it in the 7th grade) due to regulations when I could have moved on to something more challenging.
I don't want my kids to be dumbed down and forced into overcrowded classes. They deserve one on one attention and should learn as much as they can, as early as they can. If socialization is such an issue, they can always join little league or the boy scouts. -
I feel you Krystle,
I had similar problems in high school too. Let me give you a good example.
My father was born in Europe and they have higher standards for their education. He had taught me how to do math problems in my head when I was younger. When Algebra came about doing the same stuff for the 2nd year I got frustrated. I actually refused to kill any more tree's to prove that I could solve one problem on a sheet of paper. Of course, my teachers were all about how they could determine if I had the capability to problem solve. One day my teacher got bold and was tired of me going against her classroom authority. She told me that I was one of the dumbest in class and would get bad grades if I didn't do the math problems the way she instructed the class to do so. That's when I told my teacher that I don't need paper to figure out these problems. I told her that she should go get another teacher to observe and then write some random equations on the board to support how dumb I am. I told her that if I get the questions wrong then I will do the tedious Bull S#!t (yes, I said that at the time) method and listen to her instructions to the letter. But... If I get it right then you will allow me to finish my homework for the semester with only the answers to each question.
The challenge was on like Donkey Kong let me tell you... I got all 5 answers on the board correct that she wrote out. It was verified and I even explained how I came to the conclusion without writing it ...I feel you Krystle,
I had similar problems in high school too. Let me give you a good example.
My father was born in Europe and they have higher standards for their education. He had taught me how to do math problems in my head when I was younger. When Algebra came about doing the same stuff for the 2nd year I got frustrated. I actually refused to kill any more tree's to prove that I could solve one problem on a sheet of paper. Of course, my teachers were all about how they could determine if I had the capability to problem solve. One day my teacher got bold and was tired of me going against her classroom authority. She told me that I was one of the dumbest in class and would get bad grades if I didn't do the math problems the way she instructed the class to do so. That's when I told my teacher that I don't need paper to figure out these problems. I told her that she should go get another teacher to observe and then write some random equations on the board to support how dumb I am. I told her that if I get the questions wrong then I will do the tedious Bull S#!t (yes, I said that at the time) method and listen to her instructions to the letter. But... If I get it right then you will allow me to finish my homework for the semester with only the answers to each question.
The challenge was on like Donkey Kong let me tell you... I got all 5 answers on the board correct that she wrote out. It was verified and I even explained how I came to the conclusion without writing it on the board. Since my teacher got embarrassed she decided to not fulfill her end of the bargain and kept annoying me about doing the problems on paper. A few weeks later I got annoyed and told her that if she wanted to test me again then you can write all the questions you want on the board and I will get them right and will continue to refuse to write out the answers on paper.
She eventually went to the administration and my guidance counselor and I was kicked out of the class. I told the guidance counselor how this came about and that I feel that the grade was meaningless and that I shouldn't have to continue with math because obviously I have no problems with it. My counselor was cool and that is how I actually was given the credit regardless.
So, I feel for you and understand your public school pains.(less) -
Oh man, that's just an incredible story. It's even proof that special abilities are not nurtured or encouraged. We are all forced to think to same and develop a tunnel vision for problem solving. "There's only one way, so learn it and ignore everything else." It's such a shame.
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After that incident and actually there was another one where I took an electronics elective and failed. At the time my father was just getting involved with computer chip manufacturing when it first started in the mid 1980's and is very skilled at electronics and is very mathematically inclined. He would check my homework for that class and would make sure I understood things like Ohms law and how to get the circuits correct. He never gave me the answer but told me if I was right or wrong and asked for my grades because he expected me to get 100% after he told me the answer was correct once he looked at it. Needless, to say I failed because somehow the answers were incorrect and other issues (without going into great detail). My father actually spoke with the teacher and he couldn't prove the answers were incorrect. So, my father just told me not to worry about this idiot teacher and to take what I learned for the future if I wanted. He said that the teacher was so dumb that he couldn't even fix a TV and had no clue. He said that he knew that I did good and didn't care about the grade because it was the teachers BS not my inability. Basically, after those two incidents I decided to either work for or against my teachers dependent on the individual teacher. Yes, those anal teacher got a lot of heartache from me and I would challenge them and tell them the class was redundant and full of crap. Of course, I would get crappy grades. But.. The opposite where I had awesome teac...After that incident and actually there was another one where I took an electronics elective and failed. At the time my father was just getting involved with computer chip manufacturing when it first started in the mid 1980's and is very skilled at electronics and is very mathematically inclined. He would check my homework for that class and would make sure I understood things like Ohms law and how to get the circuits correct. He never gave me the answer but told me if I was right or wrong and asked for my grades because he expected me to get 100% after he told me the answer was correct once he looked at it. Needless, to say I failed because somehow the answers were incorrect and other issues (without going into great detail). My father actually spoke with the teacher and he couldn't prove the answers were incorrect. So, my father just told me not to worry about this idiot teacher and to take what I learned for the future if I wanted. He said that the teacher was so dumb that he couldn't even fix a TV and had no clue. He said that he knew that I did good and didn't care about the grade because it was the teachers BS not my inability. Basically, after those two incidents I decided to either work for or against my teachers dependent on the individual teacher. Yes, those anal teacher got a lot of heartache from me and I would challenge them and tell them the class was redundant and full of crap. Of course, I would get crappy grades. But.. The opposite where I had awesome teachers that would encourage me and I was challenged to learn I would get great grades. So you can imagine my report card looked something like A, A, B, D, D, D.
Obviously, single minded thinking without the ability to problem solve or retain knowledge is a key problem. Basically, the whole system is not right and the point of schooling is to encourage our youth to take strides to make the future better and challenge them to become successful in the future.
When our so called leaders or legislators decide that home schooling is not an alternative then these people are encouraging our education system to be somewhat communistic and instilling the states values on us. That is a bad thing and the alternate choice of home schooling should always be a viable option.(less) -
Answered No, they build schools for a reason.
Unless you are a teacher, or at least have the credentials to be one, you are doing your child more harm than good. Children need to be socialized! And as smart as I think I am today, I don't know jack about fifth grade math. -
Answered It really depends on the child...
the parents, the situation and the place. Trust me, I have considered home schooling my children several times. My only excuse for wanting to do this would be because of the lack of good curriculum in the area we live in. I mean, 20 miles the other direction and you have schools that are award winners for their curriculum. Then there are the schools we have to choose from and they are just run-down buildings being passed off as wholesome and staffed with the best educators. The fact is the lower class cities get whatever teachers they can get their hands on.
I have a 4.0 GPA. I could teach my kids if I wanted to. During the summer months we have our own little summer school and because I have been working with them, they were both honor students with all A's at the end of the year. -
Answered Yes, parents should be allowed to home school their children.
Home schooling is usually far superior to the crap shoveled out in public schools. Kids graduate today without knowing how to spell or write after 12 years of taking up space in the public schools. -
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Answered Yes, parents should be allowed to home school their children.
I am a retired school teacher and if I lived in California I would definitely home school my children!!!