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Your general grandiose advice should come with plenty of warning labels. A lot of people try to do homeschooling but they neither have expertise, patience or di

Your general grandiose advice should come with plenty of warning labels. A lot of people try to do homeschooling but they neither have expertise, patience or discipline. For successful homeschooling, you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself. Majority of people don't have these skills which is why there exist teacher degrees and training. That is why experienced teachers do much better than inexperienced. The 1:1 with incompetent teacher is not better than 20:1 with experienced teacher, IMO. It is dangerous and false to say that just having 1:1 interactions and just igniting interest would make everything better. In your case, likely your kids are fairly gifted and even downgraded teaching won't matter. But that is not the case with everyone. Most people should also not be looking for raising next Einstein but rather a well rounded and functioning individual.

whatshisface 5y ago
>For successful homeschooling, you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself. Or buy one of those homeschooling curriculums.
sdeframond 5y ago
> you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself As a former homeschooled kid, I can testify that I had neither class nor test until I first went to school at 14yo. My parents did "force" me to do about half an hour of reading, writing and basic math. I ended up with a master in engineering. They also bought lots of child-level science books and brought me pretty much everywhere they went. It does take some dedication but children are hard wired to learn.
alfor 5y ago
It is quite common in homeschooling to develop exceptional abilities. The education system is generic and with a ratio of 10-25 kids per teacher following the same pace there is a lot of time wasted on waiting and on discipline. Kids don’t learn to self manage their interests, to follow their curiosity, they learn to follow the teacher. It’s not all negative, they learn to interact with different personalities, to defend themselves verbally and physically, they make friends, they learn from other kids. With homeschooling it can also be hard to find like minded parents and kids who are not at school in the week to meet. Another way to think about it would be: imagine that most grocery store where run by the government, what would be the impact?

whatshisface 5y ago

>For successful homeschooling, you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself. Or buy one of those homeschooling curriculums.

sdeframond 5y ago

> you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself As a former homeschooled kid, I can testify that I had neither class nor test until I first went to school at 14yo. My parents did "force" me to do about half an hour of reading, writing and basic math. I ended up with a master in engineering. They also bought lots of child-level science books and brought me pretty much everywhere they went. It does take some dedication but children are hard wired to learn.

alfor 5y ago

It is quite common in homeschooling to develop exceptional abilities. The education system is generic and with a ratio of 10-25 kids per teacher following the same pace there is a lot of time wasted on waiting and on discipline. Kids don’t learn to self manage their interests, to follow their curiosity, they learn to follow the teacher. It’s not all negative, they learn to interact with different personalities, to defend themselves verbally and physically, they make friends, they learn from other kids. With homeschooling it can also be hard to find like minded parents and kids who are not at school in the week to meet. Another way to think about it would be: imagine that most grocery store where run by the government, what would be the impact?