What's your take on home schooling? \ stacker news ~meta

3493 sats \ 31 comments \ @Bitcoiner1 9 Oct 2023 meta

Yes, there my, I teach them what I want 63.2%

No, a professional should teach36.8%

38 votes \ poll ended

2372 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 9 Oct 2023

Respectfully this is a false choice and common one. One I held many years ago. Home schooling is about choice, freedom, and control. When your child is educated in the government school you have VERY limited control over what they are taught and trained to believe.

When you take responsibility for your children's education you do not have to do all the teaching. Most people shouldn't do this in fact. There are great resources for home schooling parents. In many subjects and for many kids the options are superior to the government options. You choice your curriculum, learning management system, and even your whole approach on education. The choices are very diverse. If you are considering this I encourage you to ask more questions and do more research beyond this simple question.

Also, remember that in a traditional government school you have one teacher (maybe a sub par teacher at that) is teaching 20-30 kids at once at the same pace with limited time and very little accountability to parents. When you home school you can pick everything and chose the best option for each child.

I hope that helps.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 10 Oct 2023

Home schooling is about choice, freedom, and control.

Exactly. This isn't about the homeschooling itself - it's about my freedom to decide if I want to homeschool.

There are great resources for home schooling parents.

I want to add to that that it's also a huge spectrum: teaching your own kids; teaching your and your neighbors kids together with your neighbor; sending them to a small private school with 10 students; sending them to a big private school. Those all have in common that we have choice, freedom, and control.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 10 Oct 2023

Yep and it makes all education better. If it weren't for parents forcing this choice we would only have a monopoly of government education. That idea is dying.

650 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Oct 2023

391 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Oct 2023

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children."

Malcom X

371 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9 Oct 2023

I don’t disagree that the quality and specifics of education administered by professionals can often be questionable at best. But I also know a lot of people choose to homeschool who really have no business teaching their kids anything that would remotely count as an education.

111 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Oct 2023

At least in the American context, that framing is terrible. The least impressive students and academics in every American university are those in the colleges of education. If you talk to almost any teacher about the training they got, they will have nothing positive to say about it.

This issue is about the total disaster that is government schooling. I am in the camp that values specialization and if we had a real market for education services, I would champion professional teachers.

However, in the world we actually live in, the choice is unaccountable government propagandists with extremely high rates of pedophilia vs doing the best job you can at educating your children who you love.

532 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 9 Oct 2023

Most home schooled people I have met have excelled in academics and career. There is a massive bias in media backed by the government schools and their unions to discourage school choice and freedom. For many one thing became clear in 2020. Just how uninterested many in government education are in what parents want. Those in power in government schools believe they know better than you do. Now, I know many teachers and I'm not saying it is them but some of them are guilty of this as well. I believe it is mostly higher up in administration.

If your values do not align with those taught in government schools you should do something about that. Opt out for your family's sake. Like most things every gov school isn't as bad as the next one. There are small schools with different values than the large metro schools. But the point is, do you know what your children are being taught? This goes for all schools and curriculum. For the past 20 years I've been learning that so many things I was taught were lies. Or at least lies of omission that distorted my world view. I even went to a private Christian school for High School. Some of these schools just copy the government schools but add Jesus. That's why you should take responsibility. Be active. Reject passivity. Your kids are worth it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9 Oct 2023

Depending on where you live, private schools (and home schools for that matter) may be required to teach the government curriculum. The big differences are usually the quality of peers and the threats to your kids' physical safety.

309 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Oct 2023

Yep the threat of violence is real. Most adults will never be attacked as adults but most kids are assaulted in school. Its wild how we just accept this.

308 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 10 Oct 2023

You're 100% right. I've been consistently unimpressed any time I come across anything written or promoted by a faculty of education.

Sadly, it will take generations to root out, given the level of institutional control that academic departments have over their fields of specialization.

So we have to live with this state of things for now. As a consumer of education, you have to be smart. There are good teachers out there, but you have to check carefully by speaking to them and by observing the homework they give, observing their curriculum, etc. Try to visit the classroom if you can.

Don't be impressed by anyone's teaching credential, even if it's from Harvard or Columbia. Those schools are overrun by ideological fools just like every other education department. In fact, some of the silliest ideas are propagated from these departments

I wonder if there's room for a private teacher credentialing service. Unfortunately, the network effects may be too strong for one to really take off. Too many people are still too impressed by traditional institutional credentials, like the aforementioned Harvards and Columbias.

If you can homeschool, you should give it serious consideration. I'm not in a situation where I can, so I have to play the game of trying to figure out who's actually a good teacher and who's not. It's pretty tiring.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Oct 2023

The closest thing to private credentialing I know of is Montessori certification, which applies to schools rather than teachers.

We're not sure exactly what we're going to do, but it's not going to be 100% home school.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @JustinGoldberg 9 Oct 2023

Strongly recommended. I would finish my schoolwork in 2 hours. The rest of the day was spent playing outside or reading encyclopedias.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TwoLargePizzas 9 Oct 2023

I love the idea of home schooling but it's simply not practical.

My approach is to teach them everything I can about the things they don't learn in school and also explain there's plenty of stuff they learn school that's either misleading or flat out wrong (with an explanation as to why I think that).

I also try to instill the idea of don't trust, verify.

Side note: My son is starting a business and economics class next year. It'll be very interesting to see how Keynesian it is. The school was actually looking for an economics teacher to teach the class. I jokingly said I would do it as long as I could do it my way. They seemed dead serious about hiring me, but I earn a lot more in my current role so.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 OP 10 Oct 2023

Thanks everyone for their vote and opinion.

I decided to create this post because I was watching this video and me and my wife (no kids) were on opposite sides of the debate.

There are pros and cons on each decision.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 10 Oct 2023

I would teach essential things myself, health, money and problem-solving, and then it’s up to the kid to explore whatever interests him / her, I would be much happier putting the kids around masters than in schools.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 10 Oct 2023

its awesome thing... But.. its kind of be your own doctor.. You better be sure you know what you are doing. my wife works with pre/schoolers and often we talk about the option of do that to our kids, but the amount of stuff you have to prepare is kind of scary.. you really need to be a specialist or update yourself a lot first.. I would trust my wife to do it, but because i see the amount of effort she puts on her education on how to tech and kids learning processes.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0348090484 10 Oct 2023

I say that education should not be that black and white approach.

My approach is to focus on different aspects of development of a personality and solidifying character.

At beginning, it should be possible for parents to take the role, to create environment where a child, is able learning to recognize interests and abilities. Then when there is a frame and direction that a child is emitting, then look for a suited teacher/master, in a trade for direct experience, or a direction of knowledge that is past your own abilities. But that does not mean that parents should delegate this responsibility completely to someone else. Parents need to stay in the role of observers, as well as being active in the process. Ideally, parents should discover, and learn new things with the kids.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @brave 10 Oct 2023

The child will not experience the necessity of interacting with other kids so No

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 10 Oct 2023

thats a common misconception.. Homeschooled doesnt mean isolated. You have to make sure they spend a good amount of time doing extra curricular stuff where they meet more kids

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ladyluck 10 Oct 2023

Most Parent will choose this option as school syllabus are getting worst and politically motivated

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 10 Oct 2023

yeah.. that situation is pushing parents.. at least in our case, and we are in europe, so its not so bad yet.. just yet

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 10 Oct 2023

Going to give it a go. Later give them the choice to go to school or not

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 10 Oct 2023

Was this question inspired by John Oliver's recent piece?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 10 Oct 2023

I think homeschooling works for some but not all. While people bash on government schools one thing that government schools do a good job of is having kids face adversity. Some rise others fail. So is life.

I think this rise thar homeschooling is the key to a great education for children is misguided. I often think it is a push to bubble wrap kids and force the parents’ view of the world on to them for better or for worse.

The general fear of government schools corrupting the child mind is scary but the world is evil for example the woke stuff in school yes your kid can fall down that rabbit hole but the same thing can happen with any type of idea. I grew up with kids who threw their life away playing World of Warcraft. Video games completely hijacked young men.

Being bullied getting bad teachers it’s all part of life. It is up to the individual child to rise and overcome. Build social skills and problem solve in an uncontrollable environment. Adversity builds character.

But for what it’s worth every single homeschooled person I have met in my personal career has been a bit quirky.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 10 Oct 2023

Both my kids are homeschooled.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 10 Oct 2023

I see the future is going to be awesome. We are going to get thinking caps and download stuff to our brains at home to get education faster.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 10 Oct 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 10 Oct 2023

Honeschool 100% but it needs to evolve to more of a community effort. Take a community of some 50 households and 30 kids. The big house with a big yard serves as a place for them to go and sociolize(kids lern more from eachother than from us) during the day. Now the parents can all go to work. Among the adults of the community some people of expertise expertise conduct classes once a week or something where select kids visit someones garden, wood/autoshop, nature hikes, local historic sites... you get the idea. This probably resembles how a typical villiage of honest people worked before centalized authority began telling us how to live

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 9 Jan freebie

I have a 25 and 18 year old. Started home educating them when the eldest was 9. They are both very successful. The youngest has never stepped foot in a school and now works and earns "outside the system". He has no desire to go to University as he's been working at Uni level for many years already and has developed all the skills and ability to learn whatever he wants/needs. Homeschooling covers a very broad spectrum of pedagogy, philosophies and approaches. Is there anything specific you would you like to know? Do you have kids (preschool? school age?)? Are you considering homeschooling them?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kingzing131 10 Oct 2023 freebie

Most parents just aren’t well versed in all subjects enough to be home schooling.

A lot of schools, at least private ones, would not grade how correct you are, but on how logical and presentable your arguments are.

Not to mention the amount of interactivity between children of their age are crucial, or the fact that if one day you want the kids to study abroad or go back to school system, the amount of hurdles and the discrimination your children will face is unimaginable.

I am fortunate to have studied in Asia, UK and Australia. My interest in economic was ignited by my teacher who is an Austrian economist and often raving about how CB are nothing but marketing firms whose job is to convince the society they have total control of the economy. (When it’s 99% through open market operations)