It shouldn’t surprise you that home-schooled students do so well. In school all students are expected, cookie-cutter style, to learn the same way and at the same pace; at home, learning is individualized and self-paced, as all learning should be.
Plenty of young people become well educated by their parents and through their own efforts despite going to public school.
But you can make the results even more dramatic by removing your children from these harmful institutions. Tomorrow we will dive into creative ways to homeschool or “unschool” if you think the logistics are impossible for your situation.
Today, let’s just focus on why children and teens need to be rescued from public schools.
1. Freedom Makes People Smarter
A study on rats found that when they were given “enriched” environments to explore, their brains physically grew, and the rats displayed better problem-solving skills.
They didn’t have to be forced to interact with their environment. They were naturally curious.
It doesn’t make sense to push your children towards particular things that you want them to learn, or that public schools say they should learn.
Instead of signing them up for piano lessons, for example, put a piano in their environment. If they express interest, offer to get them more help and instruction.
The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham Massachusetts has a 50-year history of teaching students in this way.
They have a beautiful, sprawling campus, with a pond, woods, and fields. They have books to read, and games to play, sports equipment, kitchens for cooking, and labs for experiments. They have teachers available so that when the kids do want help learning or creating, they get it.
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6 comments:
You can do this.. we did it. Homeschooled our son all the way through high school.
It's one of the best investments you could make. The public schools will ruin them.
My granddaughter gave up public schooling - computer school are great - it's the way to go and safer.
Will they have snow days even when one flake falls? Nope. That’s because they’re more interested in teaching the kids than how many days off they can scam from taxpayers.
Let me know how working class parents can afford to have one stay home while states and counties ALWAYS want more "for the children".
We have always home schooled, we don't want our daughters around black students.
6:39
Hilarious
That was a joke, right?
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