Do you have to go to University to home school your children??

Question

when i get older i want to homeschool my children.but i was wondering if you needed a teaching degree??Also i want to be a farmer but i imagine that i have to go to university for that...

Answer 1

no,

you don't even have to have gone to school..but you kids would be very stoopid x-p

Answer 2

It depends on which state you live in.  In my state you have several options, one of which requires some college, but no degree.

Find out the laws in your state by going to:

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp

Answer 3

no as long as you have a high school diploma you can home school your children

Answer 4

You do not need a teaching degree. In most cases, you don't need any form of college education and in many cases, you don't even need a high school diploma. Depends on where you live.

As for farming, there are plenty of farmers who don't have high school diplomas!

Answer 5

Where I live, in western Canada, you absolutely do not need any kind of degree or certificate.  You don't even have to have a high school diploma.  When we decided to homeschool, the public school tried to tell me that I had to have a certificate to teach my kids.  I had read up on the laws and regulations in my area and knew it wasn't true.  Then they told me that I wouldn't be able to teach my kids effectively because I have no "qualifications".  Funny about that...a couple of years later, my kids are all one to two grade levels ahead.  They were practically failing in their "certified" teacher's classes.

Answer 6

Honestly, look into the local state laws where you live.  Each state is very different ... where we live, between the 2 parents, there must be a minimum of 2 years of college (that's total, not per parent).  There are ways to get around it ... some places offer you a class of sorts and if you pass the class you are "legally" qualified to home school your kids.

Look into your local laws for sure ... HSLDA is a great resource, Home School Legal Defense Association.  Local Yahoo groups in your area might also be able to lead you in the right direction as to where to get info.  You can join before you begin home schooling, just tell them you are looking into it and want to get more information.

Best Wishes

Answer 7

Laws vary from state to state,however I Home Schooled my Children in Ky,and my grand-child in Indiana with a High School Equivalency Certificate!

Answer 8

No, you don't.  My ex-sister-in-law homeschools all of her children and she never went to college.

Answer 9

No.

You'd need to check any rules specific to where you're living at the time but I'm currently home-educated and there is absolutely no obligation on parents here to have been to Uni. There is no obligation for home-educating parents to have finished high school or to have been to high school or primary school come to that either. Research down here has demonstrated that kids still do better at home, than at school, regardless of their parents lack of schooling/schooling success.

No, you don't have to go to uni to work on a farm either. Most people in farming are born into a farming family and raised to be farmers. If you don't live on a farm yourself (I live on a cattle station), you can simply get a job on a farm or opt for one of the link apprentice-type things.'Course it depends what you mean by 'farming' as well - running your own holding or going into agricultural research etc.

Following on from Celebrity's post, you also need to bear in mind that farming isn't a job or a career, it's a 24/7, 365 days a year lifestyle thing: no days off, no holidays, no sick leave (no matter how much you reckon you're dying!); after all, you can't 'phone the cowshed and tell the cows you won't be coming in today and would they mind getting their own breakfast, lol.

Answer 10

My dad went to university but my mom didn't. Keep in mind that farming is hard work with little pay. You may want to work as an apprentice on a farm before you decide to take on that amount of work. That way you will know how to work on a farm.

Answer 11

Depends where you are. In the UK you don't need any qualifications at all. Same as being a farmer :-)