This "pandemic" has backfired in one way. Homeschooling rates have increased dramatically because a lot of parents were finally clued in to what the schools were teaching. My best friend just took her kindergartener out of school because they started teaching him that the school is his family. No joke. It's a book that she told me about and there is a video on youtube of someone reading it to you.
Then, she started looking into it and found out that the counselor comes in and teaches "social issues" every week.... including sex education. This is in Wisconsin btw. So she pulled him and his brother who was in preschool out and has been homeschooling them. She said it's been great. They work on school a couple of hours in the afternoon and the kids get to play and be kids the rest of the day.
That's the other thing. My husband was homeschooled and now has an MBA. He only did school 3-4 hours per day growing up. He had way longer Christmas breaks/summer vacations. School wastes SO MUCH TIME! It's crazy. If my husband and I are ever blessed with children, we will 100% homeschool.
There is so much redundancy in education, it’s horrible. 7 hours a day and probably 3 of them are actually spent learning, and that is at the high school level. In elementary school it is roughly half of that. Schools have become indoctrination day cares.
Not to mention the mountains of homework! The amount of time my sister spends helping her kids with their homework is roughly equivalent to the amount of time she could be spending completely homeschooling them.
I took all AP classes in high school, so I was always swamped with tons of homework. I remember going to college and being amazed by how EASY it was. I went from spending 35 hours a week in school plus 10 hours a week in homework to only spending 15 hours a week in class and maybe 15 hours at the most per week of homework/studying. That's 45 hours compared to at most 30. I graduated college in 3 years.
And notice how classes in college are only half of a typical school year but teach your just as much, if not more. Our public education system really needs a complete overhaul.
This has been my revelation since I began homeschooling as well - everything can be completed pretty quickly and then the kids get to be children. Why are we locking our kids up for most of their formative years? It's wild what we've come to accept as normal.
This "pandemic" has backfired in one way. Homeschooling rates have increased dramatically because a lot of parents were finally clued in to what the schools were teaching. My best friend just took her kindergartener out of school because they started teaching him that the school is his family. No joke. It's a book that she told me about and there is a video on youtube of someone reading it to you.
Then, she started looking into it and found out that the counselor comes in and teaches "social issues" every week.... including sex education. This is in Wisconsin btw. So she pulled him and his brother who was in preschool out and has been homeschooling them. She said it's been great. They work on school a couple of hours in the afternoon and the kids get to play and be kids the rest of the day.
That's the other thing. My husband was homeschooled and now has an MBA. He only did school 3-4 hours per day growing up. He had way longer Christmas breaks/summer vacations. School wastes SO MUCH TIME! It's crazy. If my husband and I are ever blessed with children, we will 100% homeschool.
There is so much redundancy in education, it’s horrible. 7 hours a day and probably 3 of them are actually spent learning, and that is at the high school level. In elementary school it is roughly half of that. Schools have become indoctrination day cares.
Not to mention the mountains of homework! The amount of time my sister spends helping her kids with their homework is roughly equivalent to the amount of time she could be spending completely homeschooling them.
I took all AP classes in high school, so I was always swamped with tons of homework. I remember going to college and being amazed by how EASY it was. I went from spending 35 hours a week in school plus 10 hours a week in homework to only spending 15 hours a week in class and maybe 15 hours at the most per week of homework/studying. That's 45 hours compared to at most 30. I graduated college in 3 years.
And notice how classes in college are only half of a typical school year but teach your just as much, if not more. Our public education system really needs a complete overhaul.
Please encourage her to get her story out there.
This has been my revelation since I began homeschooling as well - everything can be completed pretty quickly and then the kids get to be children. Why are we locking our kids up for most of their formative years? It's wild what we've come to accept as normal.
It takes less time to homeshcool than help kids with homework, but people with kids in school never believe me. Been there, done that