tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744322.post2049179846430543153..comments2023-10-06T09:16:45.120-04:00Comments on Mondok Blog: Homeschooler to entrepreneur: How home-based education helped prepare successful entrepreneursBryonmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14483341910569645033noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744322.post-90540341148973150682009-01-09T20:21:00.000-05:002009-01-09T20:21:00.000-05:00During my short teaching career at our community c...During my short teaching career at our community college, I had a home-schooled kid in at least one class, nearly every semester. They were, without exception, the best or among the best two or three students in the class. I got them as young as 15 yrs., and they had a maturity and self-confidence that most of my somewhat older--and some who were much older--students did not have.<BR/><BR/>Those "educators" who insist that homeschooling parents must be licensed by the State to teach are showing their ignorance of history.<BR/><BR/>My only beef with homeschooling is the insistence by homeschoolers that the State should not require parents to use any curriculum or set any standards. I would not want the State to mandate *which* curriculum parents must use; but in AZ, parents are required only to register their child(ren) with the School Superintendent's office as homeschooled. The police have a time with children out, riding bikes, loitering, getting into trouble or just having a good time, during normal school hours, with the parents at work. But all a kid has to do is say, "I'm homeschooled"; the police check it out, and if it's the truth, they can do nothing. So we have many children who are signed up as homeschooled students who are not, in fact, being schooled, at all. And there's never any means of determining what, if anything, they have learned. How many more ignorant, functionally illiterate people do we need??<BR/><BR/>I do think Florida is one state that has some standards to be met. More power to them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744322.post-85524197174907338382009-01-08T10:01:00.000-05:002009-01-08T10:01:00.000-05:00sorry....BRYON......I was just on another blogsite...sorry....BRYON......I was just on another blogsite...got mixed up. Bryon, you are sooooo right!Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06660392650527314409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744322.post-30854486331804596422009-01-08T09:59:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:59:00.000-05:00I'm a teacher and I agree with you. I'm currently ...I'm a teacher and I agree with you. I'm currently in a long-term substitute position. I teach a class of 32 kindergarteners with no assistant. I share the class with the afternoon teacher and we each work with 16 students at a time. The stress level is off the charts, we do the very best we can, but it's heartbreaking that I can't work individually with the students who are struggling. I work far beyond my paid time, but still, there are kids who will slip through the 'cracks'. I cry alot over this because, in spite of 'just' being a 'sub', I care...I want these kids to succeed, but I'm a poor substitute for a loving parent who is able to stay home with, and homeschool their child.<BR/>I wish I could disagree with you, Pete, but you're absolutely right.Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06660392650527314409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744322.post-7734466816457786202009-01-08T08:58:00.000-05:002009-01-08T08:58:00.000-05:00Thank you, Bryan, for posting the truth about home...Thank you, Bryan, for posting the truth about home education! It's a shot on the arm for me, a homeschool mom, to read your words of encouragement that one day it will all pay off...Kushmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005411887028795893noreply@blogger.com