The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children
By Kathleen Berchelmann, M.D.
1) We spend less time homeschooling each day than we used to spend driving…
2) We can’t afford private education…
3) Our kids are excelling academically as homeschoolers…
4) Homeschooling is not hard, and it’s fun…
5) Use whatever public school services you like…
6) I like parenting more, by far…
7) Our family spends our best hours of each day together…
8) We yell at our kids less…
9) Our kids have time for creative play and unique interests…
10) We are able to work on the kids’ behavior and work ethic throughout the day…
11) Get rid of bad habits, fast…
12) Be the master of your own schedule…
13) Younger children learn from older siblings…
14) Save money…
15) Teach your kids practical life skills…
16) Better socialization, less unhealthy peer pressure and bullying…
17) Sleep…
18) Teach kids your own values…
I’d never thought of so many benefits of home schooling. I always assumed it would make kids weird and antisocial… now that I think about, all of the home schooled kids I knew were socially awkward because they had awful parents.
This post just about has me convinced to home school my children when I start a family.
Homeschooling is an ever-changing movement, but one of the best things about it growing in popularity is (as mentioned above) the extensive resources for socializing outside of the family while still opting out of institutionalized education. It’s interesting that we would think negatively of home-schooled children because of their educational environment. If we were to strictly judge by how the kids turn out, public education is a breeding ground for bullies, criminals, rapists, psychopaths, etc.
Not every parent is fully-equipped to educate their children, either. But the more families that home-school, the more opportunity there is for community cooperation in raising and educating children outside of the system. Teamwork!
Glad this post changed your mind! It’s a huge undertaking, but it’s also something I plan on doing. I would not have it any other way.
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Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease"
In other news, ADHD is not real. The guy who “discovered” it has even admitted to making it up. He died a rich man and the pharmaceutical companies are praising his name.
So does this therefore mean that public education is fictitious education??? :)
Somewhere in the afterlife Thomas Szasz is smiling!
The Way It Used To Be by John Taylor Gatto
Chapter 1 of the book The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto. Scroll down to the bottom to read the rest of the book online for free.
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Two centuries ago the United States led the world in a movement to disestablish the monopoly of a single church. Now we need the constitutional disestablishment of the monopoly of the school.
