Reasons I Don’t Homeschool–and Likely Never Will
BevK April 25th, 2007
Follow the link below to an interesting blog post from a mom with intimate knowledge of homeschooling who says she will likely never homeschool.
Here’s a bit of what she has to say.
I put “personal experience” at the top of the list because, although my mother’s homeschooling efforts taught me much about homeschooling, they also taught me much about homeschooling–in particular, about the necessity of really being able to evaluate your situation and determine what will best work in your given situation, and for all parties involved. I certainly do not think that my siblings suffered significant harm as a result of her efforts. I believe that there are things each of them would have changed about the whole situation, but that’s understandable. However, I don’t think the experience inspired a lifelong love of learning in any of them, which is certainly sad, because that is something my mother does possess, and was certainly one of her motivating factors in removing them from the public school environment.
Read the rest at Word, Words.
