I am a homeschooling mom...

[agilebrit]

And I will not wank. No, I won't. Not there, anyway. Eh. *grabs a tissue and cleans up* Seriously, I couldn't let that go.

However, all you have to do is look at the "quality" of fic at FFN to see the sort of "education" that public schools are churning out. Semi-literate snowflakes who bristle at the merest hint of criticism? Pretty much.

Yeah, not in my house. Da Boy already gets corrected if he doesn't capitalize "I" or the word at the start of a sentence, and he's seven. And I don't think I'm stunting his creativity.

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[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Oh, those subjects will be covered by us very well, when he's old enough. Because you need to know what the arguments are so you can refute them, right?

I think the schools have changed significantly since you and I were there. I mean, all you have to do is look at the fic we rant about every day at fanficrants and GAFF (hee! I nearly typed GAGG there), and what happens when a fanbrat finds something of theirs being sporked. I'm not saying that all these kids are public schoolkids, but I'd lay down a pretty hefty bet that a good supermajority of them are.

The advantage that a homeschooling parent has over a public or private school teacher is that my time isn't nearly as subdivided. I have a 1:1 ratio in my classroom right now. Of course, when he gets older, and into advanced math and chemistry and all that other stuff that I'm not very good at, we're going to have to change our paradigm, and I'm prepared for that. This is what co-ops are for, and we have a huge homeschooling community in Utah. You can bet that I'm going to take full advantage of it if I need to.

I didn't have to pass any sort of test to homeschool. The only standard the State imposes on me is that he has to have 180 (might be 181, not sure, one day, pft) days of school in the year, four and a half hours per day in first grade, going up to five and a half hours thereafter. The school doesn't monitor his progress at all. That being said, it's insanely difficult to fire a crappy teacher in a public school, and every time I see a news story about public schools it's like a Just Say No To Public Schools ad campaign. I saw one not too long ago about an illiterate high school teacher who was in the classroom for 17 years. And they never caught him; he outed himself.