Homeschooling ans Stupid People!?

Question

Why are there so many stupid people who assume so much about home schooling without any real knowledge of the subject? Why do people assume that it's only possible to develop social skills in a government funded institution where when, how, and with whom you socialize is decided for you? or that homeschoolers can't get accepted to universities, or that homeschoolers can't participate in sports, clubs, band, art, music, etc? Or that it's impossible for an ordinary person to follow a simple curriculum guide, or use the public library, or educational programs and websites or other sources int eh community to educate their children? It's ridiculous!

Answer 1

The first duty of an institution is to perpetuate itself.  Teachers in schools and those who attend or attended school are heavily emotionally invested in being right.  It would be painful to admit what is demonstrably true...that home-schooled children outperform schooled children pretty much across the board...using the standards of the schools themselves.  Where does this leave that math teacher?  Feeling unneeded?  Feeling that he/she wasted years of time, energy, and money doing something an average parent can do at home, and any normal child can do with parental and community help?  

Home-schooling *results* elicit what's known as cognitive dissonance...what we're being told conflicts with what we "know".  We simply can't believe that a whole system is obsolete, ineffective, and even harmful...because our own feelings about ourselves depend in large measure on the fact that we are *products* of that system as well as, in the case of teachers, perpetuators of it.

Schools are one of the two largest coercive systems in our society...the other is the prison system...the so-called correctional system.  I don't see schools producing learned people, and I don't see prisons producing "corrected" people

Answer 2

I don't know.  It is aggravating.  I think perhaps some people have just been so brainwashed with the idea that you can only learn in school, that they never really stop and think about how much of our learning happens elsewhere.  Anyway, I agree it is ridiculous.

Even in your answers to this question you received uninformed answers, such as the one that said that all homeschoolers have to have their curriculum approved... that person leaned toward the side of homeschooling, but they were still uninformed about it.

Perhaps its just that there really are a lot of people who don't know how to research and find out information.  After all, they don't bother to find out real information on homeschooling before they spout off "answers" about it.  If they can't even find out that piece of information on their own its no wonder they would feel like homeschooling would be an impossible task for their puny brains.  Fortunatley most us (homeschooling parents) have functioning brain cells and know how to use reference books, so for most of us homeschooling is not a problem.

Answer 3

Because believe it or not, there are still many people out there who have never met a homeschooler.  Or, if they did, they did not realize it because (gasp!) the homeschooler was a 'normal' person.  Also, public schools brainwash kids into believing a government-run education system is the best way to educate children, but anyone just has to look at the test scores and heavy college recruitment of homeschoolers to know that abviously is not true!

Answer 4

What is ANS

You ARE giving them AMMUNITION!

But to get down to reality it has to do with Union Teachers and School Districts afraid that someone will prove them wrong.  That worries them.

Answer 5

Because it's very comforting to think that you know the One Right Way and are completely justified in telling people that their way is wrong. No, you're more than justified, you'd be morally wrong if you didn't let everyone know that you're such a genius, and give your priceless advice to the masses.

It's very comforting to give a lot of advice on something you know nothing about.

Also, they don't seem to realize that homeschooled high schoolers usually have tutors or are in commmunity college- there are no microbiology lessons around the kitchen table.

The government system can only survive as long as people think it's the only possible way, the only good way, and the easiest way to do it. Unfortunately it does that job very well. Unless someone with the mystical certification tells you to do something, and then tells you you did it right, it doesn't count. The fact that I read "The Idiot" on my own when I was twelve doesn't count, because I didn't write any essays and I did it in bursts, not assigned sections. I've had that said to me by both school kids, and teachers. They also think I'm lying, which is just annoying because if I wanted to be impressive, I would have picked a younger age and a harder book.

Stupid people are everywhere, but as a minority we homeschoolers have to deal with a lot more of them.

Answer 6

I don't know the answer to this one.  It aggravates me when I read the answers that are so clueless.

For example, saying that the home school is approved by the school board and work is from certified courses?  Not in our state.  The school board has nothing to do with home school in our state.  

Like you say, an ordinary person can follow a simple curriculum, use internet and library.  Socialization has not been an issue since the inventions of phones, internet, cars, and malls.  

The good news is that in real life, people do not oppose home school the same way they do online.

Answer 7

I agree with you completely.  Homeschooling has to be certified by the state in which it's offered and by the county school system.  They have to present lesson plans for the subjects taught and pass certain criteria.  There is no reason for not allowing these children to participate in school activies or clubs of any sort.  In  fact, I would say it's against the law to do so.  You can check with the county board of the school district and  see  what they say.  Good luck.

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Answer 8

I have known so many mothers who have homeschooled their children and had been lousy students themselves. How can they TEACH the curriculum?  They can FOLLOW a curriculum guide, but that doesn't mean they have the foundation to teach it, explore it, and enrich it with their children.  I am a secondary Math teacher so I could teach my son Math, but I would never assume that I could teach my son Microbiology just because I took it once.

Answer 9

What is so bad, homeschooling is nothing new. It is growing by leaps and bounds. You would think that people would have the intelligence to learn the truth about this subject instead of assuming they know everything about it.

Answer 10

ur lame i dont get u

Answer 11

Because they think homeschoolers are weird. They have all these questions like

"What's wrong with public school I went there?"

"I turned out ok in public schools"

"What about socialization?"

"Do you know how to teach?"

and a whole bunch of other stuff. Also, I think people went to public school their whole childhood and it was ok for them so that obviously makes it right! Plus, once again people don't like things that are not normal, and if it is not normal they will assume anything to prove their point.

--Look up and see the chemtrails---

Answer 12

indeed thanks for that wake up America home schooling isnt for dummies

Answer 13

well the social downside is not as many friends to choose from...upside is less annoying kids who think they are so much better then you...........But Homescooling is WAY BETTER cause the children learn more / faster / and retain more knowledge make better grades and are able to do far more then most public school kids .  ......But Useally its the public goverment funded crowd that alienates a Homeschool child........cause of lack of knowledge.......and parents wisdom about it............always assuming they are not good enough for their crowd !!! And anyone doesnt have to  be a scholar or  ashool teacher to teach thier child all it takes is commen sense and care.....Something the Public school doesnt teach and refuse to accept..........shove a book in thier face say do this and good luck.........and sorry your child isnt learning........and before teachers say it dont happen.......i went to public school and it happened everyday.....and still does..........i'm no scholar but i can read and write and i can search and find..........and we care enough to teach rather then draw a paycheck and say we did something today ...like most public school teachers do !!!!!!!!

Answer 14

Fear. That what they know is wrong, or not as good as what we are doing! That maybe what they learned the way they grew up wasn't the best?

Many people don't want to take the time to learn - about anything much less the truth about home schooling!

Answer 15

Wow, sounds like "anger issues" is another thing to add to the list of bad things that happen to home schoolers.

Answer 16

This is sort of a comment on an answer to this post: You cannot expect a state government to certify home schooling. They usually can not run the government, let alone educate our children. Seriously, all the schools want to do is medicate your child so they sit like zombies. How can you expect little children to sit for hours on end. It is not right. And another thing: I really do not understand people that work with children yet they do not have their own children. You really can not understand the differences in children and how they learn until you have raised children

Answer 17

They are ignorant, not stupid. Well, some of them might be, but....

There are actually people who don't even know that homeschooling is an option, they actually think that public school is MANDATORY. That is not stupidity, that is ignorance.

Answer 18

Perhaps what they are really saying, is that they couldn't do it.