I was reading the news today and read an article about home schoolers. This article is about home schooling in California. California law states that children that are home schooled must be taught by a certified teacher. Since when did being certified make you a good teacher? No, I was not home schooled and I do not home school. I went to school in the public school system and I can tell you that certification does not make a teacher! My algebra teacher in high school did not know the quadratic formula! Oh jeeze, it seems she had her teaching certification in GYM. I know too many that home school and do so very successfully. Their children are bright, have inquiring minds, very sociable, and mature. Yes, I know of a few that have children that need to be taken from them and placed in school.
I do believe that they should take the same yearly tests that the rest of the school kids should take.
I cant imagine attempting home schooling but I do think there should be a standard tessting for home schoolers.
ReplyDeleteStandard testing is a big hot button issue with home schoolers. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I would have no problem with it, I suppose. I agree that there are too many teachers out there whose certification does not make them a good teacher. There are also home schooling parents who are better at teaching than a lot of certified teachers. Certification, training, and testing does not make a good teacher or a good student.
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P.S. I have a feeling the Calif. Supreme Court will overturn that ruling. Home school advocates are going to be up in arms over this.
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I definitely think that children that are home schooled should be tested. ALL children should be tested in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI went through the public education system here in CA, and I have to say that after junior high school, I quit being challenged. High school was a joke. ALL of my friends felt that way. It was not challenging at ALL!
That is why my son goes to private school. The tuition is very expensive...but worth every dime!
Pam
I agree on the testing - as a children's protective services worker, I saw too many young girls kept home from school by their dads, with no mom in the home - no one ever had a book to show me, no lesson plan - but the girls had some awful stories to share, eventually. I am not against home schooling, but I would like to know that it's actually happening. Testing is helpful.
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hi; first time visiting your journal; I'm also a member of Sisters in Christ and was looking over the email Barb sent of other member's journals and clicked on yours to check out. What is terrible about this news (I live in California) is that there was this new bill passed that says all types of sexual orientation and lifestyles are to be taught in public school and allowed; i.e. a teacher can talk about and encourage homosexuality, single people living together, etc and the education can start at a young age, not high school, but grade school. People who don't want to have their children exposed to that type of an education have 3 choices, move out of California, private school at exhorbitant tuition prices or home-schooling. There are bad cases of home-schooling experiences, but most of the people I know who home-schooled their kids have well-adjusted kids who are bright and intelligent. Now with this law that says teachers have to be certified to home-school, I feel for parents who don't want their kids exposed to this type of education in the public school. My kids are both graduated, thank you Lord, so I don't have to deal with this, but I have a grand-niece and grand-nephew whose parents are thinking of putting them in private school when they are old enough for school. I told my husband we will do what we can to help them keep the kids in private school rather than be exposed to this type of education.
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