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#264454 08/24/06 10:25 AM
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I just wrote an article that turned 5 pages long!

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45409.asp

Unfortunately I wasn't able to include every stereotype my friends and I could think of in the article. If I had the article would have taken up most of the homeschooling site <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In this article I dealt with what we felt were the top 8 stereotypes:

1.Homeschooled students aren't properly socialized.
2.Homeschooling parents are fundamentalist religious zealots.
3.Homeschooling is reactionary and losing steam.
4.Homeschooling is expensive.
5.One parent must stay-at-home.
6.Parents need teacher certification to properly educate their children.
7.�Special needs� kids need school services.
8.Homeschooled children cannot attend university or college.

I would love to open the lines of communication and learn how you feel about the above stereotypes (please specify if you are or aren't a homeschooler) and if you have encountered any stereotypes that weren't listed.

Thanks!
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Other stereotypes I'm hearing lately:

1. Homeschooled students aren't as well-prepared as students in traditional schools.
2. Poor and/or minority families can't possibly have the resources/abilities to homeschool. (That's enough to make you want to throw something at the commentor.)
3. Homeschooled students don't have access to the resources needed to successfully complete high school curricula (labs for sciences, etc.).

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Well, my *personal* replies to those are:

1. For what? Raising their hand and asking to go to the bathroom?

2. We homeschooled multiple kids on an income of $7.50/hr, way under the povery level. We couldn't afford dance classes but I don't think the kids suffered, they probably learned a lot more math in those years.

3. Many, many states have laws requiring schools to allow homeschooled students access to school labs, sports, instruments and music lessons, etc.

You can also form a homeschool group and buy supplies together.

You can also have your child of age for the advanced sciences and math dual-enrolled in a community college (many states encourage this and at the end of 2 years in CC your child can go straight to a state university as a junior without having to take the ACT or SAT!)

Who says a $50 microscope is any worse than an old and abused $300 microscope the school has? besides, it's not as if schools are actually spending that much money on the sciences these days anyhow!

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Enough to drive you batty, isn't it?

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YES!

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Something I encountered growing up was-

Kids can only learn something if it is taught by a teacher in a classroom setting.


Some I am getting now:

You HAVE to plan out what your child will learn for the year.
~I didn't plan lessons for my son to learn to walk but he still managed quite well.

Homeschoolers are closeted away at home and haven't seem the world.
~ My son at age two has seen more of the world then almost all public schooled kids ten years older.
~ Besides alot of homeschoolers have trouble finding time to stay home. To busy going out and experincing the world. Why read about something that is only 20 miles away?

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Yep. They're all "closeted, closed-off, introverts, with poor social skills and poor training."

Gee. Wonder why homeschooled students tend to perform better on college admissions tests and manage to actually graduate college in four years...

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Meg,
You must remember that The NEA National Education Association is one of the biggest and most powerful unions in this country. Of course they're going to say negative things about homeschooling! As a former teacher, I was a witness to the power of the NEA.

I have always felt that parents should be able to school their children in any way they strongly felt was best for the child.That included vouchers.When I was at a meeting where the local union was trying to discourage vouchers, I disagreed. The reaction was unreal! I was yelled at during the meeting, ostracized in the school building for months after, and told by the local president that "it's people like you who want to ruin it for all of us. Do you want us to be unemployed?"

I had the privilege of being schooled through elementary school in a small group of 5 children in England. It was very individual. My experience was excellent.


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Your ratio was much more similar to a homeschooling teacher/student ratio. If I could do that for my kids I wouldn't have hoemschooled in the first place..probably, maybe...who knows!

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The fact that my son IS special needs is why I'm home-schooling in the first place!

I'm shocked that people feel that homeschooling is losing steam, however. I know in this area, more and more seem to be picking it up. We even have a couple of private schools that offer *part-time* classes to augment those that do homeschooling. (Just found that out w/in the last couple of weeks). So it doesn't seem like it is losing steam at all, more like it is gearing up!

But I will admit to thinking that one parent had to be a "stay-at-home". How else? I guess I better go read the article. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


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