How many homeschooling families are there on AFF?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I have no idea what this means - if they were lucky? Do you realize that every curriculum has a detailed teacher's guide?

We used a company, VideoText Interactive, for Algebra and Geometry. The course has actual teachers and visual illustration. The bonus is the toll-free telephone support. The child is able to actually talk to someone if they are having difficulty.

What does that do? It teaches them to be assertive and independent. A big preparation for college. My daughter only attended one quarter of public school during her 8th grade year to see if that is what she wanted to do. She said it was too noisy and you couldn't concentrate. So, actually, the maturity level of college students and the classroom setting is much like a homeschool setting. In my experience, it's great preparation.

I read a quote the other day, which I totally agree with. "Everyone needs to attend college in order to get a High School education." With our academic scores in this country, that statement could not be more true!

The discussion was about whether parents who had to outsource most of their children's education to other people would actually receive a major benefit from homeschooling. MissB talked about how much benefit homeschooling is even if there is one subject that may need outsourced. I agree that she has made a strong case for parents that can teach most of the subjects themselves. However, my question is about parents who can't teach MOST of the subjects themselves.

Now as far as what you have brought up. You brought up a video, and trying to teach children this way really nullifies alot of the better points MissB was making for homeschooling... Telling me that a parent who don't know the subjects can just use videos for all of them doesn't sound like a good argument in homeschoolings favor.

Now as far as homeschooling teaching kids to be assertive and independent. Maybe. Though I'm not soo sure homeschooling can do that any better than a highschool. Maybe MissB can offer some more insight here.

As far as saying high school is too noisy to concentrate, there are going to be distractions in every learning environment where alot of people are present. I think developing techniques to deal with those situations is more important than just trying to avoid them...