Education News: Maintaining Full Control of your Home-schooled Child?s Education
September 8th, 2010 | 
Author: Education News: Maintaining Full Control of your Home-schooled Child?s Education
When a parent first makes the decision to home-school their child, it may seem all too tempting to rely on other professionals to help educate their child. Current teachers, former teachers and the like are more than willing to educate your home-schooler—but for a big price. Such a price is not necessarily paid in monetary terms. Instead, the very thing that home-schooling parents do not want to happen does happen: parents take away the control from the public school to educate their child, only to hand the control right back over to a teacher that has been educated to teach a public school curriculum.
Let’s face it, in public schools children become nothing more than a number: a statistic that is counted toward the yearly funding a school receives. Children in public schools are herded into the classroom to learn and many sheep get lost among the rest. With not enough herders to bring the sheep back into the flock—such sheep, or children, remain forever lost as they flail around helplessly in the school system. Home-schooling parents are struggling against the grain, to bring their children and their education back into focus where it belongs. Therefore, to put someone else in charge of a home-schooled child’s education is a major and regressive step.
The act of handing over power to another individual can be extremely detrimental to the parent that wants to incorporate faith teaching into the teachings offered to the home-schooler. The teacher that is hired to educate the home-schooler may not have the same faith system or may not incorporate faith teaching in the lessons offered to the home-schooler at all. After all, that is what they are trained to do, to separate church and state. Thus, if the parent wants to ensure that their child is educated according to biblical scripture, it is far better if they remain at the helm of their child’s education at all times. The decision to home-school is a big one and once made, parents should be more than ready to take on full responsibility for their home-schooled child’s education.
In the end, to home-school a child is indeed an incredible responsibility; one that a home-schooling parent should not willingly pass off to another. A home-schooling parent should be a powerful force in their child’s life. In remaining close to their child, the home-schooler and the parent will bond in a way never imaginable. Moreover, faith can be incorporated into the teachings and the home-schooler can then learn to live their life the way that God truly intended.
Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, children’s rights activist, author, and Founder and C.E.O. of online education company Learning by Grace, Inc. Rothschild and her husband of twenty-eight years reside in suburban Philadelphia with their eight children.
Feeling that “our current system of education has broken its promise,” Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. to provide families with Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children all over the world.
In addition to her twenty years of experience as a homeschool mother, Rothschild has written a number of books dealing with education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Daily Education News Articles consist of feature stories on online homeschooling and alternative education.
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Shoulda mentioned, if they try and throw the question back at you with “well what are YOU doing about the poor,” you can say “I’m speaking out against welfare. That’s easily the best thing anyone can do to help the poor.”
God damn, I went to a public school for K-5. Going to a private school for the rest of my middle school and high school career was the best decision I ever made in my life.
lol @ the iron spike
“You obviously really don’t give a shit, so why are you even asking the question?”
Ha! I love it!
As I said, I agree with you, just want to know your thoughts on this. I guess the real answer might be “Well, I don’t know, but please get your mafia friend to stop stealing my money at gunpoint in the name of helping you.”
Not that I disagree with your argument, but I would like to know your answer to a counter point.
“How will the poor be taken care of?”
“Well, what are you doing about it?”
“well, I AM the poor that needs taking care of. I don’t have time or money to give, I am the one that needs help.”
I am guessing the answer would be “I will, and others like me”, but how reassuring is that? I’ll take away the safety-set that the state has made you accustomed to, but I promise I will make it up to you.
But it’s you who call people evil so I believe that it would be fair that you simply say why said people are evil. Don’t you?
I’m stating that those who initiate violence and see that as an acceptable means to an end are evil. Why?
There are many ways to answer that, but unless I know your point of reference, this will devolve quickly into a frustrating wild goose chase.
Since you were the one accusing people of being evil, perhaps you should define it?
Before I answer, how would you define evil?
Why?
Yeah, those people are evil.
Some people might consider violence a reasonable end to certain means.
Ah… so you’re willing to use the threat of violence to force them anyway. And that makes you moral how?
fantastic, I wrote a post about seat belt laws (and made a corresponding video) around the same time this vid was made. great stuff.
So you don’t think the child’s parents could teach the poor 5-year-old 2 plus 2?
If a poor person came to me I would say volunteer at a local business. For the most part they will never turn away free labor and you get practical knowledge from it.
Wikipedia does but the Harvard study does not.
its a little fancifull to think the poor would be educated by podcasts if the state did not exist. would you teach 5y earolds 2 plus 2?
isnt it better to be educated by the state than to rely on the kindness of strangers?
The use of coercion to compel virtue eliminates its possibility, for to be moral, an act must be uncoerced. If a person is compelled to act in a certain way (or threatened with government sanctions), there is nothing virtuous about his or her behavior. Freedom of choice is a necessary ingredient for the achievement of virtue. Whenever there is a chance for the good life, the risk of a bad one must also be accepted…
All Quotes by Carl Watner
Damnit it’s backwards!
The voluntary principle assures us that while we may have the possibility of choosing the worst, we also have the possibility of choosing the best. It provides us the opportunity to make things better, though it doesn’t guarantee results. While it dictates that we do not force our idea of “better” on someone else, it protects us from having someone else’s idea of “better” imposed on us by force…
make economic calculation impossible because they disrupt the free market price system. Even the smallest government intervention leads to problems which justify the call for more and more intervention. Also, “controlled” economies leave no room for new inventions, new ways of doing things, or for the “unforeseeable and unpredictable.” Free market competition is a learning process which brings about results which no one can know in advance….
People engage in voluntary exchanges because they anticipate improving their lot; the only individuals capable of judging the merits of an exchange are the parties to it. Voluntaryism follows naturally if no one does anything to stop it. The interplay of natural property and exchanges results in a free market price system, which conveys the necessary information needed to make intelligent economic decisions. Interventionism and collectivism…
The issue here,and the only issue here is this-Do I have a choice?
Just like Marc Stevens says:”Should any service be provided at the barrel of a gun”?
good question….