What Makes People Think They Are Qualified To Teach Their Own Kids?

[mzteris]

20. Because quite frankly

in a one-on-one situation - you don't HAVE to know "pedagogy" - you KNOW your child.

There are millions of resources out there. All you have to do is look for them and provide them to an inquiring mind. You don't have to have a lock-step learn this and then that and then we're going to sit for an hour and go over THIS - when the kid learns it in five minutes or already knows it! Or you can review the material for TWO hours - explain it with twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was - if that's what it takes, instead of the "approved methodology" or curriculum.

For some kids, the traditional environment is an anathema. For some kids it's like death to be locked up in that room with 37 other kids +/- one year of age, both sex and racially "balanced" and a teacher who may or may not understand how THAT kid learns, or even if they do, are ALLOWED to individualize the instructional method, nor indeed CAN because there are 37 other kids in the room who just WOULDN"T GET IT presented THAT way and she just doesn't have the damn time anyway.

My dad had a 3rd grade education and when he retired he had men with Master's degrees and PhD's working FOR HIM. Sometimes a school "education" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

You don't have to be an "expert" - you can find the "expert" or the "expert" materials. There are co-ops and online learning opportunities (NOT talking about online "schools!&quot , there are local classes, the other moms you know may have their Masters in Math, or have been a Chemist or Physicist or an Electrical Engineer before they felt like they HAD to remove their child from what was - for them - a toxic environment - and homeschool.

Some of the smartest people I know never graduated from high school, btw.