Honestly, this post might get little obnoxious and I do not mean to offend my lovely readers whose children go to school but seriously I am sure I would get into a great big fight if I asked questions to school kids' parents like this:
"what about being out in the real world? how will your child learn that if they are in school all day?"
"What about learning to love learning? how you will your child learn that?"
" How will your kids learn that your word means more than some government institution?"
"How will your kids learn to be unstructured ?"
"How will your kids play outside?"
"how will your kid learn that it's ok to talk while learning?"
"How will your kid learn that you as the parent are knowledgeable in subjects taught in school and it doesn't matter that your not his teacher?
You see these questions are obnoxious and rude are they are not?
Somehow though people think it is perfectly OK to ask me how kids will learn a whole laundry list of ridiculous things.
It isn't the curious questioner that I mind. I actually like that person b/c I get talk and talk about homeschooling and they are genuinely interested but it's different sometimes.
Sometimes the questions are meant to say not, "how will your child...."
but rather the intent is, "your child never will...." b/c no matter how you answer, the other person is ready with an answer as to why your reasoning (not to mention countless hours researching) just wont work and your kids will somehow be handicapped b/c of not attending school.
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I feel that unfortunately in our culture, different isn't just different, different is wrong. I've dealt with this question thing extensively since this is our first year of homeschooling. It's fascinating who I can put in the "supporter" column, the "naysayer" column and the "I can talk to you as long as we don't bring up education" column. Very distinct groups at this point but I'm holding true to the belief that someday they will "get it" and most in the "naysayer" column will either move to one of the other columns or just cease to be in our lives. It's a small price to pay for knowing down to my toes that we are doing the right thing for our kids.
I told my husband last spring that if we didn't do this, he would need to call DYFS on me because I was clearly seeing and ignoring the needs of my children - I think that's called neglect. I love that homeschoolers tend to be very passionate about what they do - you very rarely see the same passion in a public school parent. Go you!!
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