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RE: Why I’m quitting teaching part 11/11: Five ways in which mainstream education doesn't 'fit' society
I think this may be why may parents are moving to homeschooling options or alternative education sources.
If I had kids, that's certainly what I'd do! School is kind of like the Nation State: where the later is too big to deal effectively with local issues (as in out of touch) yet too small to deal with global problems, the former is too big to deal with individual level problems and too small to tackle social level problems!
If parents are in a position to 'opt-out' I commend them, of course the problem is that most parents aren't in such a position.
Thanks for the comment!
Karl.
It would be hard to homeschool if you weren't well set up as its a fulltime job to be a parent let alone add in teacher as well. Plus most households require a double income to stay above water. its a catch 22 thats for sure. We will be picking up our son in the coming months, we are adopting, we have bought a house in a good area for schools but now I do wonder if we needed to or if we just need to teach him from home.
I've seriously considered homeschooling, and even with fairly flexible schedules I am not sure my wife and I could pull it off. For now I rationalize things by thinking that school is where my kids learn to be in a room with others for several hours (although not exactly inspiring, clearly a life skill in our society), and I "homeschool" by teaching them to garden, camp, hike, fish, canoe, make home/bike/car repairs, build things, organize the house, etc, etc. :). An essential element of this approach is that we spend very, very little time looking at screens of any kind.
I think this approach is a good one. Kids should learn all those skills and we teach what we can when we can. So long as we put as much effort into that as we can then we are doing rhe best we can for our children.