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RE: The @FamilyProtection Community is Growing Strong. Plus An Important Annoncement.
That's terrible! Where I live we have some of the best homeschooling laws in the world, so I very fortunate not to have to worry about that. My husband also has his Bachelor of Education, and his father was a University Professor -- not that any of that is necessary to homeschool, but it should keep some scrutiny off of us.
That is a lot of education in your family! I have an education degree as well. I think that's the ONLY reason my parents are okay with me homeschooling. It's crazy! I probably have used zero of my education background with my kids. We now use the Charlotte Mason method which I heard NOTHING about in any of my education classes!
I have a friend who was at the Mackinaw Center (a think tank) who did studies on education. He interviewed CEO's from major corporations and their biggest complaint was that nobody coming out of college could write. I taught at a community college for a couple of years and saw the same thing. When I homeschooled I would give the kids a reading assignment and have them write a short paper explaining it. Then we would go over it and correct for grammar as well as the subject matter. That way I could teach several subjects at once. By the time my boys were 12 -14 they were reading Plato and Aristotle.
Oh wow. That is crazy, but I can understand how people aren't able to write. We need to get back to the basics one of these days instead of teaching to the different state mandated tests.
Ever since the federal government took over education it's devolved into a social and moral quagmire where education is almost non-existent.