Is home schooling better for kids?
BevK December 9th, 2006
http://www.news14charlott…=131201&AC=True
With all the pretty good press homeschooling gets most of the time, this article made me feel a little like I’d stepped into a time warp. The author asks the old questions ofwhether parents are capable of educating their children and can homeschooled children be properly socialized. Teacher Diane Birdwell shares her wisdom with us.
High school history teacher Diane Birdwell says there are some lessons parents aren’t qualified to teach.
"We are professionals, we know how to teach and you need to be their parents," said high school history teacher Diane Birdwell.
"I have seen the results of when they don’t do it right and they fail or give up and the kids come into the public school system and they are behind their peers both socially and academically," Birdwell said.
But most teachers say parents can give Bible lessons after school, as long as they leave the reading, writing and arithmetic to them.
having four children that have all been exposed to our current educational system I highly recommend looking into alternatives that are easily approached other than our institutionalized formats that are in place at most of the school districts now. I often wonder how much more confident,loving and more graceful they would have been if only I would have had the insight that i do now. Why do we say so often that children do not behave or care like they did back in the day?
oooohh I wish I could leave a comment on the original article! How backward and closed minded! Thank you HS Blog for bringing to our attention that there are still people like that out there. Which amazes me because, in general, people are so positive about homeschooling.