Last week, a judge ruled that parents who home-school their children in California must have a teaching credential. Parents who home-school their children are understandably upset.
I compiled my favourite comments (of the 20 pages I read) on SF Gate.
file under: insufferable
My wife and I both have Ph.D.'s in chemistry. We live in the city and home school our children because, frankly, the San Francisco public schools are absolutely terrible and I refuse to pay for private schools. Quality education should be free. My children are in eighth and sixth grade and the older one has already mastered calculus. I have no "certification" but I guarantee you my children are scoring in the top 99th percentile of anyone in the San Francisco public schools in any subject.
I choose homeschooling after having her heads and shoulders above the rest of her classmates in public school. My seven year old is currently doing 4th grade work! And I NOT RELIGIOUS!!!
If I had been forced to attend the one of the schools in my area, I would have been painfully bored- for example by the time I was in 8th grade I had read and understood every book on my local high school's senior year reading list…
My son did attend public schools and was not challenged enough. When he was 4, I taught him algebra on his chalkboard. When he was a junior or senior in high school, MIT sent us a letter asking us to attend a talk in Sacramento and consider applying at their school. Much to my dismay, my son didn't apply. Maybe it was because public schools had succeeded in dampening his enthusiasm.
MIT? WOW! Our sons (11 and 13) have their sights set on going there or Stanford. Their Public school friends want to be video game testers when they grow up.
file under: eye roll
Public schools should focus on Math Science and ENGLISH. One school here in California my kids attended told them they had to dress as FREAKING Musilum for a week No Kidding! The NEA is one of the MOST powerful Lobbies in the US. I went to Public school looking back it was so so at best. At least back then we didn't have Gays coming to our school telling me it was "Acceptable to have sex with my buddy"
We left California mainly due to the difficulty of home schooling. Our choice to homeschool has nothing to do with religion. The public school turn out nothing but sheep. Our child is a visual spatial learner who has thrived with home schooling.
In 1937, Germany ended home schooling and declared that all children are members of the state first and foremost, and the state knows what is best for everyone's child.
So if I'm a poor person in Compton who can't afford private school, I can't home school my kid. Instead, I must send him to the violence-plagued, gang-infested local school or be thrown in prison.
If I'm a poor person in Compton, I don't have six hours a day to home-school my kid. Food and shelter preclude home-schooling.
Also: Colleges don't recruit the home-schooled.