Comments on: Do Homeschoolers Need Teaching Credentials?

By: Jady

Jady — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:10:47 +0000

As a teacher I have seen parents get mad and take their kids out to home school them. After they deal with them at home for about a month, they send them back to us. Now their child is a month or more behind the other kids.
Now as a parent I believe it takes a person capable of learning new things to teach. I am sure there are parents out there who could home school their child and do as good as any teacher. My sister-in-law home schools her children.
We both have 12 year olds. Her twelve year old is more advanced in math and reading than mine. There is something to be said about small groups.
I think if parents are home schooling for the right reasons and are able to do the work, they shouldn’t need the credentials.

By: dancingnancy533

dancingnancy533 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:22:58 +0000

Parents who do not mistreat or abuse their children should retain the right to home school their children, if they believe that is the best course of action. I have talked to parents who want to pull their children out of school because of the social obstacles students have to cope with. Issues like bullying, popularity, clicks, etc. While their reasons to pull their children out of a public school system may be just, I don’t think it would benefit them. I am not a proponent of any of those issues I just mentioned. They should all be abolish from society, but we do not live in a utopia. What good can come from them is how we deal with them. Character develops in students by the way they handle those situations. It allows for them to grow as individuals. I was once bullied as a kid in middle school, I dealt with it, and it has made me a better person by going through the experience. I am not saying we should put all students through a similar experience, but we shouldn’t hide them away from interacting with their peers for fear of the possibility they may get bullied.

By: Joe McConda

Joe McConda — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:13:59 +0000

Home schooling should always be an option for parents who can and want to do it. If we lived in a perfect world, all parents would home school their kids to some extent. I don’t think parents need credentials, but they do need to seriously consider what they need to do in order to give their kids a good education.