Should Parents Even Be Allowed To 'home School' Their Children?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6875257/Homeschooling-parents-forced-sign-register-protect-extremist-indoctrination.html

[pastafreak]

...AOG...

[Calicogirl]

Very young children are being formed and shaped as the type of adults they will become Spath. Manners, etiquette of dealing with social situations, the building blocks of maths, art, critical thinking, language as well as the need for social skills like kindness, that's not free childcare, that is of the utmost importance- and besides it's not free, we pay our taxes to pay for state education, nothing free about it at all.

[spathiphyllum]

ironic, in reception i remember learning to colour in the lines, not critical thinking. Year 1 i remember learning my times tables. No idea where manners came into that. Social situations? Never once were they covered. Well the entire school and life is a big one of those. If anything it teaches you that people can be bullies and get away with it, and people can be good all their life until one action throws them into another light.

[pastafreak]

I'm really thinking spath needs to give a bit more care to his answers, and what he actually MEANS.

[spathiphyllum]

what i mean is, the education system does not cater for everyone. It is a blanked education which the pupil needs to utilise, but they're not taught how too untill year 9.

[Calicogirl]

So your teacher didn't expect you to say please and thank you, hold doors open for other people help your classmates when they needed it? I find that very hard to believe Spath.

[gness]

The comma, Spath? I taught. I taught children. I taught children with difficulties. I taught deaf and hard of hearing children. They were in my care to be taught and not for parents just to receive free child care. That really is an insult.

[spathiphyllum]

To be honest my memory is slightly hazy they may well have done.

[spathiphyllum]

thats basic manners though you get from parents before the age of 5

[Calicogirl]

Perhaps, but they are built upon Spath, kids of infant school age are like someone said little sponges who observe, analyse, copy and begin to develop their own interests and teachers help shape them, they aren't just free childcare :/

[pixie374]

You do. But being with others around your age is also learning social skills. Children need to learn the basics before they become rocket scientists.

[spathiphyllum]

OK i am sorry gness i got the wrong end of the stick.


However regarding the childcare comment, i can only take from my experience and perception. None of my teachers were motivated liek you see in the adverts. They were boring, shouty and had zero tolerance for anything.. School was the worst years of my life, i learned more in the year after i left than i did the entire time there.

Everyone is unique you can't have an education system that suits everyone

[spathiphyllum]

"You do. But being with others around your age is also learning social skills. Children need to learn the basics before they become rocket scientists."

That's what this thread is about though. That implies those home school never got that experience of being with their peers in such a real social manor, not always supervised etc..

[Rockrose]

I have to say school years were the happiest days of my young life, I attended some brilliant schools including a very fine RAF school where I learned to speak German by the age of 7

[youngmafbog]

"In my experience, having been to both, the only difference between state and private schooling is class size. Not difference in methods."

Fair enough, but my experience has taught me different. You also tend to get kids whose parents want them to succeed rather than parents that want to undermine the teachers.

[spathiphyllum]

"where I learned to speak German by the age of 7"

By now you must be fluent

[Rockrose]

No unfortunately the next school I attended only let you do German if you were top in french

[spathiphyllum]

thats what i mean by the education system isn't a one sized fits all glove. They should have perused your abilities in german instead of forcing you into french. I never got the choice of language i could do. Ifi i had the choice it 100% would have been Spanish.

[spathiphyllum]

but i was forced to take, and then fail, french. I got a D.

[pixie374]

I wasn't implying that jome-schooled children don't get that spath, just in different ways. As a single parent, i don't think I had the time or ability to homeschool four of different ages. Others can...