Home schooling????

Question

can a parent who has never completed high school .. home school their children..and they let the child skip 2 grades just cause the child wants to and they don't want to hear the child complain.. just asking i know a coupld doing that and the father quit in 11th and the mother quit in 8th

Answer 1

That all depends on whereabouts they live.

If they lived here, then, yes; everything the parents are doing is absolutely fine. Here these parents would just have to have 'educational objectives' for their child and that can mean absolutely anything in practice! I can easily find a way to dress up me laying in bed all day, in my pyjamas, stuffing my face with ice cream as a series of 'educational objectives' LOL!

Some other places have more government involvement/interference in what homeschooled kids should be learning/how they should be learning it etc.

It may also depend on what their chosen philosophy r.e. 'homeschooling' is. There are as many different ways to home-educate as there are people who are doing it, for instance: parents who've decided to unschool their kids will be heaps more flexible (and unconcerned) about what their kid is learning, when, how and at what pace etc than a family who believe homeschooling means that the kids should be learning the same sort of things as they would learn if they went to school...but just learning it at home instead*

*which is what, given your post, you seem to believe homeschooling is. It's a pretty big hole to fall into though: that there is only a single definition of 'homeschooling', to which every single homeschooling family should adhere. There isn't.

Answer 2

It doesn't seem possible considering the circumstances.

Answer 3

If the child can do the work, why shouldn't he skip a couple grades? Maybe he did poorly in school because he was bored.

I was doing high school level work very early and graduated at 15..  My mom and dad knew nothing about proper grammar or algebra.. I learned it just fine right from the book. One of my college professors once said that the key to learning is learning how to teach yourself. In college, I was top of my class in college algebra and the only training I'd had before was from a book. If someone struggles a great deal with something, there are plenty of other resources out there that can help homeschooler's.

As long as they're providing plenty of coursework and making sure it gets done by grading it with some sort of teacher's edition, there's no reason why they can't teach him themselves.

Answer 4

It depends on the laws where those parents lived. In many places, you don't have to have earned your high school diploma to be legally allowed to homeschool your children. As for skipping grades, in some places, yes, a parent could do that. Most parents won't, but abuses, even legal ones, happen in any system.

Btw, studies have shown that the level of education of the parents has no effect on the level of education the children obtain through homeschooling.

Answer 5

Hmm... did "he" speech resemble "you" writing?

Seriously, the laws on homeschooling are different in every state, some states have very strict regulation, while others have virtually none.

Just Google "Homeschool laws", and "the name of your state."