Dec. 19, 2007 - Quirky Home Schoolers
My son had a birthday party last week. There were mostly home school kids there from age six to eight. One child's mom stayed with him and they took a long time in the bathroom. Then she told me he has trouble with constipation and accidents. It made me think, if this child was in school he would be teased and miserable for a physical problem. Another boy didn't want to do some activities with us, would he be punished in school for not doing all the activities that the teacher wants? I know as a former teacher that yes, he would.
In the schools, the students have to fit the system but at home they are already loved and not punished for things out of their control like physical problems. When I was a student teacher I was surprised how mean the teachers were to the kids and I had known most of them as "people" outside of school and in the community with their parents. I thought I would never be like that but a few years later I had kids that I found irksome because they wouldn't listen to me and get me in trouble with the administrators who wanted every child on task at the exact same time. What if that child who I maybe wasn't so nice to was mine? Why is it normal to think kids should be ostracized and punished in schools?
Just my thought after spending a birthday party with lots of kids of different personalities. What a great world this would be if we were all taught in a loving environment and could blossom at our own pace.
