From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (Karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 16:40:42 MDT
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From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
>
> Coming from a place where homeschooling doesn't exist (and private
> schools were reintroduced just a few years ago), I have always wondered
> about the practicalities of homeschooling. Is the idea that the parents
> act as teachers, and give their children materials to read and explore?
^^^^^^While I have never met any homeschoolers, I have seen TV specials on
the topic. Some parents are stay at home full time teachers for their
children. Some people form little groups of homeschool families, and some
parents in the group teach some subjects. For my family, I am hoping to have
time to do a lot myself, but also hoping to have my brothers help. One
brother is a mathematician and the other is a musician. I don't know if that
help will happen though, since right now we live very far apart.
> While this sounds wonderful, it also seems to be extremely demanding on
> their time and capacity if they are working.
^^^^^^^^ Extremely demanding. Extremely rewarding as well. One reward is
knowing that I will be saving my children from the boredom and tyranny of
public schools that my brother and I suffered in for years. Another reward
is having so much time getting to know my child, and learning things with my
child. The final reward is having the child learn to think for themselves
and make their own way in the world.
--karen
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