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

[WinniSkipper]

229. I'll try to address - but I have to bring you back to what we were talking about

..for this to make sense.

We are talking about kids, generally ages 6-18, who are in the demographic of the OP and everything I have been talking about. In your example, that's the patient, the teacher is the doctor.

Doctors can study all they want - but the patient is different. It has a similar DNA, but it's environment is foreign. The rules are different.

And that is the part the homeschool parents, especially those you are talking to hear at DU, might tell you. It's the environment they don't like. It's not the teachers, and it's not the concept of public education. And in this day and age, parents at home, through the resources available to them, have a very high likelihood of being able to tailor an educational program more directly suited to their child's needs than an overcrowded classroom.

It can't be both ways. Are teachers overworked, underpaid, and have too many students to be able to teach properly? Like I often hear, and always agree with? If that is the case is their no way I at home, with incredible resources at my fingertips can do a good job in comparison?