Why do people who do not homeschool feel it necessary to answer homeschool questions?
I am so amazed by the ignorant, negative answers that are being given to those searching how to start homeschooling!!!
I am curious to know where your "expertise" comes from... Are you a child who just couldn't see not being with your friends all day at school? Are you a teacher who feels that you are smarter or more qualified to educate? Or?????
Just curious as to why you would take the time to answer homeschool questions?
2007-10-26T14:10:05Z
To Trinity, 32 years of teaching experience does not answer why you are answering homeschool questions! Obviously homeschooling is not your field!
2007-10-26T14:16:27Z
To Answer is Mine,
On what are you basing your statement " generally teachers ARE more qualified to teach your children"
I didn't say I was asking the questions <This is likely why many teachers respond to your inane questions.>
What experience are you talking about? WHAT hang ups? <In my experience, people that home school have their own hang-ups that they then project onto their children and use that as a guise for the need to homeschool.>
Homeschool parents have inferiority complexes? What are you refering to? < common reasons are inferiority complexes> Not a religous family <and being a religious zealot.>
I don't fall under any of your catagories. So now what is your response?
2007-10-26T14:51:15Z
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rosierose2007-10-26T14:27:34Z
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They answer out of ignorance.
If they are truely teachers it ruffles their feathers. They go to school for all those years and aren't being payed very well.... and then you can stay home and do a better job than they can..... OUCH..... that's gotta hurt.
You should start planning now. Instead of looking for random worksheets online, which might not even be accurate, find yourself a good, prepared homeschool curriculum. We use games in homeschooling. Some of the games are described in the curriculum, and the kids either make them or gather the things needed to play. You can order lots of educational games from the companies that sell curriculum. I motivate the kids by using the most interesting curriculum I can find, and by telling them they can do something they like after we finish school. I put up shelves where I need them, and I have 2 tables in the dining room. We have a cabinet to put some things in. You have to work with what you have. For Bible study, we might use a prepared Bible devotional for kids, read Bible stories, and our curriculum also have Bible lessons in it. I find field trip opportunities that match with what we are studying. Ex: While the teens are studying ancient history, we will go to the King Tut exhibit and omni-theater at the Science Museum of Minnesota. When studying the Mississippi River, we go on a padleboat ride on the Mississippi River. Use Learning Language Arts Through Literature. We don't do peer mediation, or counciling in homeschooling. God and parents are the guides for homeschooled children, not peers. The children get council through the Bible and parents. Siblings are also helpful in some instances. Safety is part of health class. No, 4H is not free. Listening to classical music is usually part of a homeschool curriculum. Also hymns. I will give you some websites for you to look at curriculum.
I have the desire to look it this from a psychological point of view.
Why *would* a person feel the need to bash something they really don't know about? I don't go around doing it, so what makes it so interesting to the person who does it? What inner need is being met?
It really boils down to a need of the ego. I would say it really boils down to a need to be right, which is tied with self-importance. This need to feel right is so they don't feel wrong and their egos feel okay. You can read more about that here: http://www.thebodyworker.com/psych_need_to_be_right.htm I think a LOT of people who come in here with their negativity fall in this category. Look at how many people outright judge the parents who choose to homeschool. Judging others is a way to make *ourselves* feel better. When you feel no need to judge others, you're probably pretty secure within yourself.
Of course, then there's also perseverative thinking: the inability to shift your thinking to focus on something else and/or consider other possibilities. We see plenty of that.
Then there's the wider category of egocentric thinking: "this is how I am, so others must feel the same way". This is actually the product of a lack of developmental maturity or the result of protecting the ego. This type of thinking is also tied to, "I've met one person (ten people) who's like this so all others who do the same as that person must be like that person." It's part inability to see people as individuals and part prejudism which serves to (erroneously) protect the individual.
Looking briefly at the two naysayers who have thus far responded, one has a VERY apparent sense of self-importance while the other one, by not only appealing to personal experience as an educator, also crossed the line by judging people he has never met to show more about himself than about those who homeschool.
Ha, good question......you know, I am a homeschool mom, and I don't go answering questions in, say the automotive section. Because, while yes, I know a BIT about cars, I am NOT a mechanic, and have never even tried to be one. Of course, to make it more applicable to YOUR question, non/anti homeschoolers answering questions here as if they have some valid logic or authority is about the equivalent of me not only knowing NOTHING about auto mechanics, but me also being "anti-auto maintenance"......not only do I not have a clue, but my mind wouldn't even be open to GETTING a clue! I say, ignore the idiots.
Many people just want to get more points and since they are probably people who "know" everything about anything (or think they know) they answer. If I answer it's because I have worked with home-school parents and students for the last 12 years during my career as a Christian school teacher.