Home schooling in CA

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

For the record, NCLB was written by big time liberal Ted Kennedy. Many people try to pin this on Bush, and this is what happens when trying to reach across the aisle. Anyway.....

Yes, I know. I knew this when it was passed, and I didn't like it back then, either. Just because someone is liberal doesn't mean they don't look critically at other liberals. Bush, as president, is the bottom line, though - and if a liberal president had passed it, I would have blamed them, too.

I don't have children so I'm a bit hesitant to really weigh in on home schooling, since I'm not actually in the thick of the reality. Or, at least, I'm not interested in absolutes because, not having a child, I can't really fully imagine what it's like.

I know that the public system is simply not right for every child, so I have no problems with people taking matters into their own hands. At the same time, I do think that the well-roundedness is very important - as is learning to cooperate with children other than your relatives, and learning to work with adults other than your parents. If I were to put my children into home-schooling, I imagine I'd want to use a co-op with many other children taught by many other parents, and I suspect I'd want them to learn all of the standard subjects taught in school, as well as the creative ones that have been all but eliminated.

For kids that work OK within the provided system, I've really appreciated what my sister has done with them outside of school - their homework period has served as a sort of home-schooling session, building on what they've learned at school (teaching higher-level and real-life applications.) I think this gives kids the best of both education processes.