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My brother is autistic and he was bullied TERRIBLY for it. The school did nothing to protect him or stop it. My mom decided to take him out of school for his safety and because he was severely behind other students. He was going into middle school and didn’t know his abcs. Homeschooling was great for him. But we used a curriculum for a christian homeschool program and we socialized him by sending him to a tennis class. He really blossomed and met a girl he liked there. He is going to college for computer science now.
If you add "Christian" to home schooling, your kid won't become a rocket scientist.
If you add "Christian" to home schooling, your kid won't become a rocket scientist.
Bro shut up, I'm pretty sure he knows that story more then some random person does@@user-us9wu1xk1z
@@user-us9wu1xk1zwhy? Does it disqualify you for rocket scientist school?
??? Don't you have schools for people with conditions like that in the US?
As a regular ed AND special ed teacher, I have found that the quality of homeschooling depends on the quality, intelligence and dedication of the parents. This is what I have experience: 1) Parents who are intelligent and diligent, can advance their gifted children much faster and their spectrum children are mentally healthier because their children are not socially abused. 2) Conversely,
I have witnessed parents that are mentally challenged can use religion or anger to keep their children ignorant and within religious controls. Unfortunately, it is a double-edged sword.
My sister was the second parent. Kept her kids home and either let them play video games all day or force fed them pro Trump/ anti Biden, anti Obama, and pro conspiracy theories on CZcams. We're Canadian.
The problem is when parents do the bare minimin and abuse the kids with no one to help the kids.
That’s not homeschooling. That’s a micro school. There are “pods” like that, but it is not the norm. In Florida, the parent has to be the teacher, but you can utilize tutors and other teachers for your kids.
I was in a microschool for middle school. It’s honestly the best of both worlds. I wish it was more commonplace.
I’m a homeschooling mom but as my children age I love the idea of being able to hire a private teacher that I hand pick to help with more advanced topics.
I'm a homeschooling mom and I love that idea as well. Some sort of small class pod.
This is how I teach. I teach American History on the Outschool Platform. I have been an Independent online teacher for 7 plus years. I started when my son was 11 and I had decided to move him to an online public school. I love it. I not only teach gomeschool kids I also teach brick and mortar school kids who want to take more history classes because they love it. I also teach knitting and crochet which this past year I have taught as many classes of if. Ot more then history. I am single mom and this allowed me to be at home with my son who played competitive travel baseball and soccer and it allowed him to stay more healthy as he has Type 1 diabetes. It was great.
There are costs, I would imagine. Insurance, license, supplies, sick time, etc. And there are those who would take advantage.
If you're teaching 10 kids you just email them and say no school today if you're sick. And yeah you'd need insurance to do that, but only if you're taking government funding. If parents pay you cash, you don't need to report it to anyone. As for taking advantage, what does that mean? Like presumably you'd hire a licensed teacher, and as a teacher you'd verify payment right? And anyone can quit whenever. When I have kids I'll have them go to a homeschool co op for math and science, and I'll teach them reading and writing. Anyone could teach reading and writing and basic high school level language arts.
That is brilliant insight @@emma_doucette
@@emma_doucetteif you’re watching kids (even if it’s not for home schooling them) insurance is always advised and it’s pretty in expensive to add on to your regular homeowners insurance. It’s not a need but it’s definitely good to have!
This is actually doesn’t sound like a terrible idea. Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t this how schooling started before it became mainstream and regulated?
@@gumbowumbo factually you are wrong. Women of upper-class societies were highly educated in different societies and cultures around the world. It wasn’t only just the boys went because the family could afford it. Women went also and as far as public school being daycare essentially like you mentioned Covid and kids being out in the street that’s a whole other problem we have to fix. public school is failing a lot of kids and the fact that quite a few public schools think it’s okay to hide stuff from parents is very alarming Our public education system is extremely flawed and it’s not our fault. We don’t agree with it and we have the power to choose what we want to do.
The issue is a lack of accountability on many fronts and unfairly higher costs for parents of kids with greater educational needs.
There's a reason it became more standardized, these small unregulated schools taught whatever the parents believed with no regard for actual fact and the fact that abuse does occur both from teachers and parents and the current design of the system assumes a child will be in public school for things like mandatory reporting which is why abusive parents often homeschool their children.
@@nestormakhno9266 problem also comes whenever you can’t trust what the school is teaching either
@@jjanglesandfriends preach
I was homeschooled for the second half of my schooling and it was great! There’s a decent sized community of them in my area so I was never lacking in socialisation. I had a good consistent routine without the nonsense of school systems, It was way better than going to a class room to learn
Homeschooling works differently for everyone I think, but when done correctly it is very beneficial
This is why I went from a childcare employee to running an in home childcare. 😊
My kids are schooled at home by certified teachers. It's so relaxing. The school days aren't long and boring. One-on-one attention is a bonus!
It’s nice to hear teachers talk about the positive side of homeschooling from their end. I only ever hear the teachers union talking points even in a state that is right to work.
It isn't the teacher unions that are fighting you, it is the fact that charter schools take money away from public schools and charter schools get to kick out any students that they don't want. Also, any parent with a special needs child under IDEA should ALWAYS consider a public school, UNLESS, they can afford a private special education teacher.
I’m a teacher, and I think homeschooling can be wonderful! I believe it truthfully depends on the 1) parent putting together the proper curriculum/lessons for their child and being consistent, and 2) ensuring there are components of age-appropriate socialization integrated for the child throughout the week (being on a sports team, club, homeschool co-op, etc.)
But yes, homeschooling can be the BEST option for some students 😊
I think the biggest issue would be the non-educational daycare. It wouldn't take a full 8 hours to teach 5-10 kids, so does this teacher now need to babysit and educate? Who's responsible if a child gets hurt while being educated at this person's home? It's not impossible but that individual should understand their risks and responsibilities and set very clear boundaries, even with friends.
This only works if there’s a stay at home parent, which is true of any homeschool curriculum.
There's an acre lot behind my house, with a house on it. We were notified last winter that it was going to be turned into a school. I was really confused, especially after seeing that the proposed building modifications didn't add much. Mostly just a parking lot.
Now I think I understand.
Parenting and teaching are very different disciplines. And performance standards for home schooling vary greatly from state to state. Children learn as much from other children as they do from teachers. Small schools with a cross section of students and competent teachers, yes. But a neighbor, teacher or parent teaching just what they think is best, then no. Schools still struggle with "Covid catch-up" for students, which shows that profit and convenience don't directly translate to student competence.
You’re not wrong it’s 84 hundred but it doesn’t work like that I can’t just give it to someone like I would the same amount that allocated for private schools … it’s more of a reimbursement program where I purchase the curriculum and extracurricular things to supplement the p.e./arts/music/ etc. and once the things I submit are approved I would be reimbursed on a quarterly basis
The benefits depend on the state. Sometimes you get more freedom of choice if you’re not receiving a dime in benefits. All depends. HSLDA (homeschool legal defense association) has it spelled out.
When I was growing up in Florida, my parents decided to homeschool me for middle school because of my extracurricular schedule. We went through Florida virtual school, but also started doing small group classes with other homeschooled kids. We eventually went to this private school that was comprise predominantly of homeschoolers so you would pick out which group classes you’d like to take almost like a prelude to college courses and then you’d have some days where you wouldn’t have any classes except independent study or virtual school, I think alternative ways to teach students, but also having these alternative ways for educators to engage with students can be really useful and more accessible to some families.
I want this!!!!!!
The answer is not to defund our public institutions and it is alarming that teachers would think this.
@@LiminalQueenMedia YES QUEEN.
You're not wrong. However, there has been a right wing war against public education since, in my opinion, Brown v. Board of Education. My wife and I have always been proponents of public education. However, at this point, it's been degraded so much, by those right wing forces, that we're starting to feel like it's too broken at this point. We are very fortunate that our very bright and hard working son is in an excellent public middle school and feel hopeful about the high school. However, schools like that are becoming increasingly rarified. I taught in charter schools for my first three years, even though I see them as part of the death knell of free public education, because the giant one size fits all schools are not working for so very many kids and teachers. We've all been frogs in the pot, as each shock to the system provides one more opportunity to degrade the system and not enough voters understand the public school system well enough to make informed votes. Hell, teachers are so beat down that many of us don't see ourselves as the highly educated expert professionals that we are. My professors in my graduate education program, all former classroom teachers who went back for PhD s, pushed us to stop deferring to so called experts and see ourselves as the experts. What they're saying here is just a practical response to the giant shit sandwich that so many of us are sick of eating for the good of the order.
@@DavidSchachter002 While I do not disagree with your analysis of the situation about the decline in public schools, the rhetoric on display in this short extends well beyond pragmatic advice and directly into idealization of the voucher system based on the relative capitalist advantage it would bring them. This is exactly the type of motivations and interests the right intends to create to further drive the defunding of public education.
@@DavidSchachter002 From my perspective, the solution to the problem is that our society needs to reinvest in its public school system and the labor that makes it function not amplify it's exposure to the market.
@@LiminalQueenMedia I don't disagree. However, it's hard to fault my brother and sister educators for being sick of being kicked around, being treated like peasants, and short shrifted. I'm fortunate because I fell in love with and married a highly successful professor. So, I have greater financial ease than what my career calling would offer me.
I love watching the American public school system fall apart in real time I'm glad I'm not a child anymore because public schools are going to be few and far between
What is this check you mention?! 😂 my kids go to a charter school but I’ve never heard of this..
As long as you children do not need special education services, they might do well. However, many students who have attended charter schools when they are "kicked out" come back to public schools lacking skills in the academic areas. Parents have to become familiar with the state curriculum for each grade and be honest about the skills their child has or has not learned. A friend of mine has a child where the child was given all "A's" in kindergarten by a charter school when her child couldn't even read simple words and had severe speech
(articulation and comprehension) problems and was being seen by a specialist.
Taking an early education degree just to do this for my kids 🙋🏻♀️ my advisors said I was crazy, but ~$700 a semester after FAFSA til graduation is much better than whatever privet school would cost me for 2 kids.
Private.
It's a short-sighted solution. 😊 but until they address the bullying and indoctrination at schools with undisciplined students, I understand the parents position
I was homeschooled and it's a very very bad place to be.
So kinda fun, my neighbor knows i teach and went on a rant about groomer teachers and how she was going to homeschool.....i was super calm and supportive, which throws people like that off ...and i was like the homeschool fails, often broke down on reading comprehension..... And she had zero idea what i was talking about.... Her kid is supposed to be in kindergarten in seven weeks. 😢
It’s concerning that so many of these parents aren’t skilled in teaching basic literacy. Both my girls entered kindergarten knowing how to read, primarily with phonics, then expanded on. I love teaching early reading to 3-9 year olds.
In Colorado I’m pretty sure you actually have to be the parent to homeschool your kids. I could be wrong. But if that is right that is soooo messed up! I had some neighbors with 7 children and she was home schooling them and I don’t mean to sound rude but those children were not getting taught proper.
Unfortunately in New Mexico that's illegal. We can hire a tutor for subject help but the parent/guardian is must be the primary educator.
There must be legal ways to do it? Maybe as a tutor.
$80k minus food, books, and supplies, though... I strongly dislike how ideas like this are draining the enrollment in public schools and giving kids way fewer opportunities to socialize and discover various interests. I could see a grim future where kids don't have the public school option if ideas like this persist. No hate to your idea, but it seems like a shortsighted solution. We need to be bolstering the community and public resources for everyone. Instead, we should be arguing for higher pay for the teachers with larger classes at public schools. Also, side note, my state is implementing a transitional kindergarten for kids around age 4, which would address some of the population with younger families. That idea could even be expanded to younger students. Free ECE?? I bet parents could get behind that. And yes...this will take more buildings and staff, but it seems better than a large number of teachers leaving to be at home.
The resources are for the student. Shouldn’t they go where the student goes?
15% of kids and growing… 9.6% private plus 5.4% homeschool
Families are opting out of the public system (and it’s not just the rich people anymore).
Work on your resumé.
The thing is that people don't want to use their kids as crash-dummies just to test the system. Also school isn't the only way to socialise.
@@capitalist4life "Work on your resumé" implies that you want the public school to go away. Is this a correct implication? You don't want any public schools?
@sherlock7898 @capitalist4life @kaydee1485 My point is that if we continue to funnel resources away from public schools with programs like these, then there isn't a lot of hope for them to improve and/or continue to exist. The public resources should be going to benefit all students as a collective community. Public schools should not disappear. They have a lot of room for improvement, but that can only happen when the funds from the government go to the public schools. If families want to homeschool their children, then it should not be by the federal or state dollar. Public school is highly regulated and each subject has standards that the teachers follow. The teachers are also specialized in their subject area that their license is for. Does that also apply to homeschool? Will the government actually make sure that each standard is being taught successfully? Can one teacher really guide 10 students on their own in the multitude of subjects that are offered at public schools while offering the same specialized approach that a team of teachers could? Programs like these are making the problems already facing public education even worse by funneling money and staff away from the collective good for society that is public education. TOGETHER we are STRONGER.
Oh gosh. I understand that we are good people that we only think about the good things, but given how the foster system is abused like this and they’re only outs is regular schooling, I can only see people taking this bit of knowledge and them not doing good things with it.
There’s already auditing practices in most states that flag those types of situations.
I can get behind trained teachers taking the neighborhood kids to teach small classes at home.
We know a woman who started a school three years ago and it’s the best! She’s a certified master educator and it’s something we are thinking about for our great grandkids!
I think I'm a big fan of this idea. A ten kid class and the teacher is getting paid more than a 25 kid public school class??? Sounds like a win-win to me 🤷🏻♀️
Can someone explain the Florida check thing?? Why are they giving you $ to give to charter schools?
Because they align with De Santis agenda.
Because in Florida they have school choice. It means parents can choose the best school for their kids. Instead of paying twice for their child’s education (once in taxes then again to the actual school) the state allows the resources to go with the student to their school of choice. It enables poor students in under served districts to go to better schools they otherwise couldn’t afford.
Look up the concept of “school vouchers.”
It’s like EBT/SNAP or Medicaid but for schooling. It allows the government to pay for something without directly providing it.
When you buy food with snap the government pays whichever store you choose. When you ‘buy’ medical care with Medicaid, the government pays whichever provider you choose.
With school vouchers, the non-rich can afford to send their kids to private schools (if they want).
then what happens to
the poorly funded schools the poor people leave?
That's what i did 😂
Growing up, I went to 10 different public schools. The worst ones, the parents treated the school as daycare. The parents didn't care about their children's grades, and never show up to their ports/clubs performances. The staff in these schools slack off and barely teach because they're aware the parents don't care.
I say make sure your retirement is good and proceed.
That’s not “homeschooling”, in the true sense of the concept. However, it sounds like a great idea. Teachers actually get paid an ok amount of money and kids still get taught by a professional.
Burnt out teachers does this and teaches other teachers how to do this.
I'd do it as a parent!
My friends mom works for a company that does that. It gives her the ability to be home and her grandbaby lives a couple doors down so she can watch him