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For this reason in my country we don't make exceptions. Homeschooling is illegal, if your kid doesn't show up at a primary or secondary school regularly, it can escalate to a point police becomes involved so the state makes sure the child gets proper education until it reaches 18. Almost everyone unanimously agrees with this (who isn't part of the Islamic cohort who force their kids to go to Sunday school in mosques to bring them values from the middle ages)

I didn't "fit" in my schooling system either, I got excellent grades for anything math, physics, chemistry etc, I spent more than 10 times the amount of energy in Dutch and French and whatever to get passing grades (turned out later I was dyslexic). I don't agree with how education is done here, but I wholeheartedly believe it's atleast better than whatever parents can provide with limited knowledge on most subjects. Besides my county is small, there's always a school within 30-45 mins of cycling.

Secondary school isn't meant to learn anything useful yet. It's to build a bit of common knowledge, but it's mostly meant to orient pupils what interests them for what they want to focus on when they grow up. You can't determine if you like something or not by doing a couple lessons, it sometimes takes to be forced onto the subject for a year to start appreciating it a bit.

What's most important for a parent as contribution, is to make sure you expand on the education school provides, and help develop these interests by being involved. I'm lucky when I was young we didn't have smartphones and tablets, my mom was prepared to halt her career to spend a lot of time with us. I liked astronomy, she got me books, read them herself, she'd ask questions about it, I could reproduce. I liked geography, she got me a puzzle of the map of Europe, I liked electronics, she got me a build-a-radio kit, this escalated, my dad would drive every Saturday with me to the electronics store two cities over, I'd show him what I wanted to build, he'd finance it as long as I finished my previous project (whether it's a success or a failure). I became an electrical engineer, it's my biggest hobby still, and my job.

My choice of study, work, and hobbies all stem from my childhood. I couldn't understand why people have a hard time picking what they want to become, but now I understand they probably had parents who didn't bother helping them develop their interests. My parents were never my "friends" when I grew up, they were an authority, though they took my opinions seriously. Now they taught me what I need to know and I'm independent, they treat me as equal, and they naturally became my best friends. It wasn't always easy as a kid, and looking back maybe I'd do some things differently, I'll probably make mistakes with mine, but I'd never want any other upbringing.

So, not saying I am the norm, but I didn't learn to read until I was 7, then by 8 I was (according to the standardized tests) reading at a 12+ grade level. That being said, at 7 my parent's were informed by my teachers that I was FAR behind in reading, so they got me "Hooked on Phonics" and if I finished the program they were going to give me pokemon red. Hooked on Phonics helped me get started, and the constant reading in pokemon red helped me really apply it. By 5th grade I was reading roughly 1 book a month on my own, so if you're going to homeschool you need to look at the levels that they should be at and make sure that they are keeping up with them, then use their interests to help further increase their skills in the subject.

This doesn't necessarily embody unschooling, from what I have seen. But of course, not unlike homeschooling, all most people are going to hear are the extremes.

these kids will never get hired for any job without even a high school degree….good luck to them I feel so bad for them

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Felon…. Face tats… drug addicted… sugar baby… of ALL people, she shouldn’t be teaching anyone anything

Lol this guy is such a sheep, poor thing is a programed robot learning is a natural consequence of being alive it does not need to be forced, being taught crap you hate does idiot

Pray for the kids this is so wicked to decimate there entire future by making a “school” system where they cannot even read like come on! I was able to read and write paragraphs by there age.

Kids are a reflection of their parents.

16 yr plan to destroy america

I know public schools are basically the devil, but your kids NEED to actually learn information.

Homeschooling is good, but you can’t socialize well with other kids.

But the actual system of public schools set kids up for failure.

So it’s a lose lose situation.

But yeah, don’t do what this woman is doing.

Well she's about as useful as the public school system

where is the father? the answer to this will explain everything lol

if you are stupid as a parent you should try to make your kids better than you.

this is definitely child abuse

You don't have to take your kids out of school to read with them. My mom read to us all the time. It was a family activity.

I was homeschooled and had some social issues growing up but luckily joining the Army cleared that right up.

Almost to the final phase of Idioctacy….stupids teaching stupids.

I don’t believe the educational system teaches people the core skills they truly need. That’s why I plan to homeschool my children, because in my experience, many college graduates have been some of the least capable thinkers I’ve encountered. (This is not taking jabs at anyone I went to college just later than most.)
That said, I’ve been preparing for years. I’m not even trying to have kids yet, but I take this responsibility seriously. I refuse to repeat the same failures I believe the system imposes on millions. I’ve seen too many parents just wing it and hope for the best, assuming that pulling their kids out of public school is enough. But the truth is, just because public schools are broken doesn’t mean anything else is automatically better.

My 4 year old writes better than that kid

This is low hanging fruit. Too easy of a target to criticize. Honestly feel like im watching trailer park boys.

4 kids, weekly food budget of 180$ a week. Great meals, lots of variety. Fascinates me to watch people spend this amount of money on garbage or luxury with no skills to turn it into something grand at the table.

No, that doesn't sound like a great idea, not even in the beginning
Your problem with public school sounds like a very north American problem. Not surprised when looking at the abilities of the average US high school graduate.