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

[naomi24]

spath, how long do you intend to wait before choosing a career path?

[spathiphyllum]

I'm technically in one.

[naomi24]

Gardening?

[spathiphyllum]

well... It's not just gardening. I do a wide range of outdoor tasks from slight landscaping jobs, to simple aesthetics all the way to guttering. I could easily employ another person onto my team.

[spathiphyllum]

which would be the progression aspect of a career path. It depends how far down it i want to go. Maybe if i can't think of anything else i'll go all the way. But over the winter / nowish it's an awful time to work. It's better work in the summer. Lots of gutters this time of year.

For example I have no work today due to the weather.

[Rockrose]

I know I am going to get shot down for this - but how do you have so much time to be on here - if you are so busy working?

[naomi24]

Okay. Back to the subject of home schooling.

[youngmafbog]

No, it's a fair question RR.

[Old_Geezer]

If they do so competently. But it's a scandal there seem to presently be no record of the children being taught away from the normal school system. It's simple enough, add all births to the record, remove them as they enter the standard education system and onto school rolls. (Remove also when tragically there is a death.)

[Old_Geezer]

Or an emigration. Maybe other situations too.

[woofgang]

so was I calico....because I wanted to know stuff. I don't come from a bookish family but I already knew about Zeta and evolution by natural selection before I started primary school. I am no kind of genius....just brought up in a family where kids were encouraged to be interested in stuff. I could have been a bored bratatschool but the teachers were very good at broad spectrum classes and there was no "set" way of learning to read or do maths. My parents couldn't have homeschooled me as both needed to work and my father often used to be away all week returning on friday nights till monday mornings because he used to lay large diameter water mains. I do think that there needs to besome oversight of homeschooling to keep the minority of children, who are at risk of slipping off the grid, safe; but in general I think that the people who choose to do it are choosing the harder path than offloading the child onto a custodial education system.

[Rockrose]

Yes they can be taught at home but I feel there should be a register and a record of what is taught and how long for.

[spathiphyllum]

Because i don't work all day every day. I also sometimes work 3 hour in the morn to have 4 hours off to then work another 1 hour. My day schedule is not set and planned. It is quite loose. Im also my own boss there for, i can do what i want.

[youngmafbog]

I can see why people feel the need for homeschooling given the state of our State schools in some areas. I solved it by paying but I realise that is perhaps not an option for many whereas homeschooling could be.

Each to his own, providing the child gets a rounded education with no brainwashing (although given the left wing brain washing in some schools perhaps that is not going to happen?) I reckon

[Ken4155]

I would guess that, pretty much like being educated by the state, there will be examples of home schooled pupils who have gone on to good/great achievements and those for whom home schooling didn't work and are looking after public conveniences.

[Prudie]

It's a subject most of us have no experience of therefore there are a lot of basic questions. I assume it means being taught by parents/guardians? A very basic example, my mother was bright, she could knock out the telegraph crossword daily and beat everyone at Trivia, she was widely read and could have taught me lots of things - however I did A level maths and on to a degree. No way could she have even instructed me to O level. So what happens in that scenario? Someone else comes in?

[anotheoldgit]

ladybirder

Please let us not change this thread into a I hate Spath thread, if gardening is what he chooses to do then good for him, there are many who make quite a bit of money from gardening.

[Calicogirl]

Yes very often. Parents usually cover all the basics, then they farm out specialities, sometimes amongst themselves, sometimes via tutors. I was taught maths by someone else's Dad who taught Maths at University once it got beyond my Mum (who has no interest in maths besides normal day to day stuff), she in turn covered drama for other people's kids because that's her thing. For science we had tutors after about 12 but I dropped science when I was about 14 to concentrate on other aspects because I knew very clearly what I wanted to do and it wouldn't involve science so I could concentrate on more helpful things for my path.

[Sqad]

Prudie...that is what I was getting at........who takes you to O and A levels and how is the curriculum decided upon at the age of 12 years?
If your parents are neurosurgeons or barristers...then surely they will be working not giving one home tuition.

[Sqad]

Calico...ignore my post....you had answered it.