Should a Parent have the right to homeschool if?

Question

They never do school

They give no monthly report

The child said the only reason they wanted to be homeschool was because they didnt have to do anything.

First hand knowledge, my 9 year old sister has been homschooled for 3-4 years. She was pulle dout because she was picke don for ONE day. But yet she recently told me she wanted to be homeschooled because at home she doesnt have to do anything

Answer 1

Yes, but I won't allow those kids on WELFARE

If so, put them in 3rd grade at the age of 22 and put a gun to their heads and SHOOT THEM if they refuse to learn!

Understand my point of view

If they can make their way in the world, more power to them

I WILL NOT PAY from my paycheck to support them!

I think that's fair, don't you!?

Answer 2

I'm going to assume you are in the US.  Forgive me if I'm wrong.  Most people in the US are very proud of the freedoms that you have.  However, when it comes to something you don't like, suddenly others shouldn't have that freedom because YOU don't agree with it.

Homeschooling is legal in all States and in most countries around the world.  Just because someone is home schooling in a way you don't like, doesn't mean that the freedom to homeschool should be taken away.

For Amy - if parents should go through physch testing in order to teach their own children then I'd hate to see what teachers should actually go through!  LOL

Answer 3

The parent has the right to educate their child in any way that they please. By forcing children into an education system, the government has violated the sanctity of the family and has overstepped its authority.

Remember, it is "We the People", not "Us the Fed".

Answer 4

I homeschool my daughter to keep her away from the s*x, drugs, and violence. She sees enough of it on TV that she does not need to go to school and put up with it. Homeschooling has less requirements, in the state I live, than regular school. But she is not doing "nothing". She is actually working at least 4 to 6 hours a day on lessons that I have planned for her!

I do not have to turn in a monthly report but at the third grade she has to take a test to prove that she is learning something.

Answer 5

I believe there should be mandatory standards put in place.Quarterly and yearly testing at a local site or school .Psychological testing of the parent and child before homeschooling can start and yearly for the child.Mandatory minimum standards should have to be met and laws should be in place to ensure the childs educational  needs are met.The only possible exception to this I could see would be the parents of special needs children although I believe it is in the childs best interest to see they are not alone if they are physically and mentally capable of attending.Melissa how about showing a link.I live in one of the most religiously conservative places in the nation lots of homeschooling private schools and public schools.I come in contact frequently with home school kids and I can tell you I severly doubt your claims are accurate for the majority of home schooled kids.I work in a job that puts me in homes for several weeks at a time and I can't think of one time being around home schooled kids when they were spending a reasonable amount of time being schooled.

Answer 6

its the parents choice

Answer 7

Parents should have the right to educate their children however they choose to.  Children are born to parents, not the institutions known as schools.  

Here is some more information whether or not homeschool laws are necessary:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Answer 8

If the law allows her to do that, then yes, it's okay. Should they have the right? In many cases, yes. I know many, caring unschooling families whose children "didn't have to do anything" and academically weren't learning much, if anything, but they have great kids. I've known some of these families for several years and have seen the kids become more academically oriented as they got older--kids at 13/14 who weren't reading at 10 but read anything and everything at 13, for example. (And here, we don't have to give a monthly report, so people don't do it.)

There are some schools out there that don't force kids to do any academic work: Sudbury Valley, The Albany Free School, and Summerhill in England. Unschooling is a popular approach to homeschooling where I live.

You might disagree with it, but she's not your child. You could talk to your parents about it--non-accusatorially--and ask them what plans they have for your sister, where is she headed academically, etc. You could offer educational opportunities to your sister and guide her to explore things she's interested in. Show her the world and there's bound to be something to get her to want to do something.

And you know, kids often didn't start school until age 8-10 in the past and they still learned just as much, if not more, in terms of reading, writing, grammar and math, as modern kids do by the time they were 16-18. You don't have to start a rigorous program at 6 to get an education.

Answer 9

Has school taught you that calling someone derogatory names is OK?

Funny, my children would NEVER EVER call anyone a derogatory name. They have, what is called, respect.

Answer 10

I think all children should be completely removed from their parents and turned over to the government for proper social, academic and diversity training as soon as they are of school age - around 6 years old.  This should continue until adulthood - at which time the child will be placed in a suitable occupation or selected for continued government training based on a standardized psychological, emotional, academic, intelligence, selective diversity, and conformity test.

During their early years at home they should be encouraged and rewarded for reporting any suspicious behavior exhibited by their parents (e.g. assembly, teachings based on any particular religion, expressing any improper thoughts, etc.).

Before being allowed to have children, adults should be required to apply for a parenting license and approval should be contingent upon a standardized psychological, emotional and conformity test.

Answer 11

I homeschool, not to protect my child, but to give them the same freedom to choose that every adult on the planet apparently deserves, no matter how ignorant and stupid THEY are.

I'm sorry that you are choosing to judge all homeschoolers based on the bitter experience that you face with your family.

Amy M, some states have tried to pass the mandatory testing and such that you are recommending. The public schools were not capable of passing the same tests, however, and so the court stated that homeschooling parents cannot be held to a higher standard. Pretty funny, huh?

Answer 12

Only in cases of illness should a parent homeschool. It isn't compatible with US culture.

Answer 13

Stop being jealous of your sister.

Your parents are doing what is best for her. She will turn out just fine.  And she won't have a poor attitude from poor peer influences.

Answer 14

Yes Tee.

A parent should have the right to homeschool.

The public school has the right to graduate a child from grade to grade without the child learning.   The public school has the right to give a diploma to a child who cannot spell or do basic math.

It does happen .

We cannot force people to learn.  No one can force you to learn just as no one can force you to be sterilized or use birth control methods.

Answer 15

Should a parent have the right? Yes, absolutely. It has nothing to do with 'rights' - unless you happen to live in a dictatorship.

Parents are responsible (under the law) for deciding how their child is to be educated and where and how and by whom; the law makes it clear that it is not for the state, government, local school authorities or anyone else to decide.

It is parents who have chosen to delegate the education of their kids to the State when they send them to school, not the State who automatically presumes to have responsibility or authority for educating children. Hence the authorities do not 'allow' parents to home-educate their child, the parent allows the school authorities to educate their child on their (the parents') behalf.

No parent needs to have permission in order to home-educate their own child.

Anyway what *IS* education?? My siblings and I have been home-educated all our lives. As an unschooling family, we've never 'done school'; never had reports, never have our 'work' marked; never do tests; never take exams (unless we, the child, decide we want to); do not follow any curriculum etc etc etc. Basically if it happens in a conventional school, then it does not happen here in our home and does not play any part in our education.

And yet still my eldest siblings are both at Uni, doing BSc (Hons) degrees; my sister has already been accepted to do her Master's; when he was 15 years (and about 4 days) old, my brother took exams (entirely his choice, lol!) meant for 18-19 yr olds and was placed above the top 95% in the State.

Y'know there are more than 200 (bricks and mortar) schools in over 30 different countries (incl. the USA) where, if she were a student, your sister still wouldn't have to do anything if she didn't want to; schools where the kids don't have to bother turning up to any classes if they don't want to and where they (the students) are, not only allowed to do nothing all day if that's what they want, they are positively encouraged to do nothing for at least a proportion of their time at school. How does that differ in any way from what your sister is doing or isn't doing at home??

My suggestion would be that you try checking out some schools such as Summerhill (  http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk  )...

.....and then just be happy that at least your parents aren't paying school fees of $12,000 a year so that your sister 'doesn't have to do anything', lol.