What’s funny about homeschooling around here is that people can’t figure out why I’d\u00a0 bother. The simple reason is that I want my kids’ education to be what mine wasn’t. To wit:<\/p>\n
I want my kids to have a history education imbued with a sense of order and causality.<\/p>\n
I don’t want a disjointed multi-year social studies program. I want a HISTORY program.<\/p>\n
I don’t want a science curriculum that is cobbled together off of random web sites and then treated like the inconvenient “extra” (ranking even lower than art, music and – heaven forbid – P.E.) I want them to read a little science and then get their hands dirty with experiments. All the time.<\/em><\/p>\n I want a language arts curriculum that includes writing and grammar, not just spelling and vocabulary. I don’t want a language arts curriculum that assumes writing is covered “somewhere” just because other subjects assign writing projects.<\/p>\n I want a curriculum that includes logic and critical thinking, not an education where facts are spoon-fed to the student and their pass rate depends entirely on their ability to regurgitate on command.<\/p>\n And the last reason why: I’ve got three students on different levels, moving at different speeds with different learning styles. But there’s only me and them – not me and 18 or 23 or 26 of them. I have great respect for teachers: given their restraints, it’s amazing they turn out what they do with the 18 or 23 or 26 at a time. But it’s still not enough. When we made the decision to cut loose from schools, we’re not just freeing them from the bonds of an institution – we’re letting them go as far and as fast as they want.<\/p>\n I just hope we’re not too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s funny about homeschooling around here is that people can’t figure out why I’d\u00a0 bother. The simple reason is that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}