Extremist Home School - What does homeschooling look like? - Myths and Realities

Some people view homeschooling as an inherently extremist activity--and it is certainly subversive in its very nature! People often approach homeschoolers with doubt, questions, and even prejudice.

I seek to answer these here.

It is hard not to show any one type of homeschooling, and equally hard not to narrow down the astonishingly diverse philosophies, styles, attitudes, and beliefs of homeschoolers into something digestible, if false.

Nevertheless, I believe that there are definitive statements about homeschooling that can be made that are true for over 99% of homeschoolers. I have done my best, fellow educational warriors! Please take this in the spirit it is intended.

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[babysparkler4]

You are so right California! I'm enjoying filling in my own Public School "holes" everyday, and I'm finding that homeschooling my kids I am learning right along with them (and many times FROM them!) Homeschooling has given my kids a desire to seek out information and not just wait around to be spoon fed.

Thanks for the video :)

[Ejahi]

This was wonderfully put together. I truly enjoyed it.

[reptilia5]

Non scholae sed vitae discimus- We learn not for school,but for life. Vitae paramus- We are preparing for life. These two very important Latin phrases describe home education to a tee! They are the first Latin phrases my son learned in his home education classical language studies. After we did much discussion about these phrases we decided to adopt them to be his home education mottoes. How many kids in public school study Latin or Greek? Two very important subjects for math and science prep.

[reptilia5]

I would consider kids killing kids at school to be much more extreme than home education. At least the home education children are safe at home. As for "socialization" issues,walk through the halls of any public school and tell me what "socialization" you want your child to pick up. Profanity? Drugs? Fighting? Murder? Cutting school? Children learn socialization by osmosis through daily interaction with people of all ages. To me,public education is a poor excuse for "socialization"

[reptilia5]

@CaliforniaArchitect As Dr. Moore said in "The successful Homeschool Family Handbook", "who doesn't have gaps in their learning? Hundreds of them!" The idea of "holes" and "gaps" in home education is simply negative propaganda by those who oppose home education.If you look at many of the kids leaving public schools they don't have holes or gaps,they have a complete Grand Canyon sized gap in their learning! Home educated parents need to trust their abilities and not listen to the haters.

[reptilia5]

@Peace9A I'm a liberal pedagogical home education father. for me it is not what is being taught in public schools,it is how it is being taught. Public school children are not allowed to be independent thinkers. They are taught how to teacher/peer dependent non-thinkers. And with all of the news stories of pedophile teachers, kids killing kids, and bullying of children who are different,who in the world would send their child to these cesspools we call public schools?

[Peace9A]

"Intolerant people.

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People who cannot bear the existence of any belief system that differs from their own."

That defines fundamentalism very well. It seems like that is often the exact and dominant reason people choose to home school.

It seems very conservative Christian, and a feeling that the public schools, among other faults, do not provide this fundamentalism sufficiently.

I do not mean this aggressively.  But frankly those words seem so on target for the motivation to home school.

[CaliforniaArchitect]

Great comments in the video. Some people ask how do we know if our kids will have "holes in their education" if we homeschool them. Although there is no education that is perfect, I didn't know that I had holes in MY public and private school education UNTIL I started homeschooling my kids. Considering that I graduated with honors and did well in undergrad and grad school, that says a lot for homeschooling.