Should Parents Even Be Allowed To 'home School' Their Children?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6875257/Homeschooling-parents-forced-sign-register-protect-extremist-indoctrination.html

[spathiphyllum]

Yes. But i also think all these children should be registered. What's the problem with that?

[spathiphyllum]

I just don't see how parents have the time and money to homeschool.

[Calicogirl]

Yes of course they should. I was homeschooled (damned glad I didn't go to school), and not everyone has the same time constraints and financial situation as you Spath, plenty of people can home school, and most do it very well.

[spathiphyllum]

"damned glad I didn't go to school"

Why? you've no idea what you missed, or what you actually gained.

[Calicogirl]

Did you go to school Spath?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, they should - some more structured registration won't necessarily be a bad thing.

[Sqad]

Calico is the first person that i have ever known that has been "home schooled"..........for what it is worth.
I presume home schooling means taught by qualified parents or an independant equally qualified. I have certain concerns about this, but accept that it is accepted.......by a small, very small minority, but should be carefully regulated and controlled.
In answer to your question......yes they should be allowed, but closely regulated and not encouraged.

[Rockrose]

//I just don't see how parents have the time and money to homeschool//
One works and one homeschools?
Self employed? So they can work round the children? - Of course not if they say work outside as obviously that would take up all their daytime but if they were computer programmers they could do that easily around children.

[spathiphyllum]

"Did you go to school Spath?"

I am unsure how that is relevant.

[Calicogirl]

No Sqad neither of my parents were qualified teachers, there is no need for any qualification to home school, no legislation that states what can or cannot be taught and nothing which designates how it must be taught. It's great in that it can be geared specifically to the child's strengths and weaknesses.

[Calicogirl]

It's just a question Spath, you know like when I asked how old you were and you got triggered by that as well. Don't bother answering, but it makes you pretty impossible to debate with tbh.

[diddlydo]

I think home schooling is really not in the child's best interests - how do they get to meet a cross-section of society when in a home-schooled bubble?

[Sqad]

Calico..well, in your case, they did a good job.
However, if you applied to a University for a bona fida degree, not a micky mouse degree/diploma and you were asked at the interview, which of your school teams did you play for, were you in the Dramatic Society .......wouldn't you bit at disadvantage?

[spathiphyllum]

Calico, if you feel it's impossible to debate and communicate with anonymous people, maybe an anonymous chatroom isn't for you?

[zebo]

Qualified, professional people are checked and assessed to destruction by both external agencies, eg Ofsted, and internal management, appraisal.
Any uneducated Tom, Dick or Harry can 'educate' their child with no monitoring. I'm sure that for many it works well but I do think there needs to be some method for checking what's going on. If after a few years of this Utopian plan the parent decides that it isn't working, guess who will be expected to sort it out? The local school, resources will have to be wasted clearing up the parent's mess.

[spathiphyllum]

also, if i give out info about myself, if it's then used against me later in life, that's my own fault. One thing home school may not have taught.. street smarts.

[Prudie]

Calico I think the way you were homeschooled and the way you've ended up is very much the exception. It's unbelievable that parents should be allowed to do this with no qualifications and no guidance on what should be be taught. For example exams, they aren't relevant in your chosen career and I'm not sure you've ever mentioned what you sat but had you wanted to go into a teaching career for example, would you have been able?

[Mamyalynne]

Stop making this about you - if you don't want to say whether you went to school just leave it.

[Calicogirl]

No not at all Sqad, I was never particularly 'sporty', but I was in various other clubs and societies, and all the other kids who I know who were home schooled as well were.
People seem to think homeschooling is staying at home. It's really not, I think most home-schooled kids get out as part of their education far more thank schooled children and certainly don't miss out on the social side of things, there is no home schooled bubble of being isolated.

[spathiphyllum]

no but surely being home schooled, you're rarely around people of your own age? Unless you joined home school get together for all the kids who weren't in the playground.