Oct. 8, 2008 - Superiority Issues
I've really gotten into homeschooling. I feel like it is the best way to educate and to live. So I feel wierd around people who have left us. I was recently at a school event to volunteer. I saw two families that once were in a co-op of homeschoolers. I still can't believe that they don't homeschool anymore. And chose public school. They looked happy but I still felt like how could they. I don't have the right to judge so it must come from my insecurity. We are a bigger more visable "movement" but still it's hard when some leave. I guess it's nice that we do have choices. And who knows if they'll come back some day. I did get to work with one of the children at another volunteer thing I did this summer. I was shocked that he had gone from child directed learning as a preschooler to bragging about his "A's in all his classes and wondering what he would get in my class. It was just for fun and to learn and be creative. That's what I fear - that my kids, in a traditional school, would be all about the grade and not real learning. At least that's what I saw when I taught in a public high school, Kids didn't want to do anything unless it was graded, and some not even for that. And then they'd just do the minimum. They had no interest in learning, in knowledge. it broke my teacher heart.
Comments
Oct. 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Nurs4jc
Carol,
It is soooo sad ( to me anyway :O( that those families left homeschooling - but you are right - they had the freedom to choose and THANK GOD We have the freedom to choose too! Homeschooling is not always easy or popular, but is it the best choice for my family and I'll gladly take the good with the ugly!!!
I don't want to go so long before we get together again...email me and lets set something up, maybe the week of the 27th?
Jamerrill "Nurs4jc"
Oct. 12, 2009 - I feel the same way
Posted by ThriceBlessed
Every time I meet former homeschoolers, I wonder how they could be happy NOT homeschooling... I don't get it.
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