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Posted May 16, 2020 * Facebook icon SHARE * Twitter icon TWEET * Envelope icon EMAIL * [130][icon-share-chat-md.svg] 64COMMENTS An [131]article published in the May-June 2020 issue of Harvard Magazine sent shockwaves through the homeschooling community. At the top of the article, entitled "The Risks of Homeschooling," is a drawing of a forlorn girl looking out of the barred windows of a tiny house where one of the walls is composed of books labeled “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Bible.” What she sees outside are children—presumably public-school children—joyfully skipping, chasing, and in other ways playing. Yikes. The article then goes on to summarize the view of Elizabeth Bartholet, a Harvard law professor who contends that homeschooling should either be banned or severely regulated. The words in the article misrepresent homeschooling to such a degree that, if I didn’t know better, I would think it was satire. So, I decided to read the 80-page [132]article that Bartholet had published in the Arizona Law Review, entitled "Homeschooling: Parents' Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to [133]Education and Protection." Oy. Before summarizing what is wrong with Bartholet’s arguments, let me start by agreeing with her on one point. It is absolutely true that some parents who are seriously neglectful or abusive of their children use homeschooling as a cover. [134]Child abuse is a very serious problem and I believe, as does Bartholet, that the state has an obligation to protect children from abuse. States need to have clear and reasonable definitions of abuse and means to enforce laws against such abuse in all families, whether they are homeschooling families, public schooling families, or private schooling families. But that is the end of my agreement with Bartholet. I have chosen to organize my case against Bartholet’s case against homeschooling by focusing on three terms that she uses in the title of her Law Review article: Child rights, child protection, and education. Child Rights Bartholet, with no hint of irony, contends that children have the right to government-enforced compulsory schooling. Think about that for a moment. A right that they can’t refuse. A perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak if ever there was one. Somehow, according to Bartholet’s logic, a state that forces children to attend the state schools is respecting children’s rights, but a family that offers their child the option of homeschooling is not. The Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution was designed to guarantee such rights as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and liberty. All of these rights are violated for children in school. Liberty is the basic right; the others are correlates of it. The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights declares, “No person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.” Nowhere in the Constitution, or anywhere else in law that I know of, is there any statement that a human child is not a person. Yet children are regularly deprived of liberty without due process of law when they are sent against their will to school. It’s obvious that compulsory schooling (which literally means forced schooling) is an assault on children’s liberty. Children are required to go to school, and in school, they are not free. They are told exactly where they must be and what they must do almost every moment; freedom of speech and assembly are banished; they have no say in the rules they must follow; and when they are accused of violating a rule, there is no due process in determining [135]guilt or innocence or what their [136]punishment will be. Sometimes people say that a child’s experience at school is like an adult’s at work, but that is a delusion. A job might sometimes feel like prison to some adults, but adults are not forced by law to work at a particular job, and adults are always free to quit. Involuntary servitude is illegal for adults; it’s called slavery. I don’t know of any adults who would willingly accept a job where they are so tightly micromanaged as children are at school; a job where you can’t talk with your co-workers, can’t leave your seat without permission, and are continuously monitored, tested, and compared with your co-workers in a manner that seems almost deliberately designed to [137]shame. More than a century ago we banned full-time child labor for children, believing it was not good for them. But now schooling has become, in time commitment, the equivalent of a full-time job and, in onerousness, something worse than the kind of full-time job that adults would tolerate. And now here’s another right that I think should be enshrined: The child’s right to be a child. Children are by nature curious and playful. There’s a reason for that. Self-directed exploration and play are how they learn. Children were designed by nature to educate themselves by playing and exploring. And yet our schools shut off these natural ways of learning. Homeschooling is a way to open them up. Child Abuse As I said, I deplore child abuse in all forms, and I agree with Bartholet that we need better protection against the abuse that occurs within families. What Bartholet overlooks is that school itself can be abusive and that many families who remove their children from school are doing so precisely to protect them from abuse. The harm that forced schooling can do has been documented in many research studies. Such research (which I previously reviewed and documented [138]here and [139]here) has, for example, shown that: (a) children are less happy—more [140]anxious, angry, and bored—in school than in any other setting in which they regularly find themselves; (b) when adults are asked about [141]traumatic experiences in their [142]childhood the most commonly reported instances are abuse that occurred in school, primarily from teachers; (c) hair cortisol level (a measure of chronic stress) was significantly higher in children two months after they started kindergarten compared to two months before they started; (d) school-aged [143]teenagers are the most [144]stressed-out people in America and 83% of them cited school as a major source of their stress if not the major source; and (e) the rates of emergency mental health visits, [145]suicide threats, and actual suicides for school-aged children are roughly twice as high during months when school is in session as during periods of vacation from school. Bartholet, in poorly documented or undocumented statements, claims that most families that homeschool are doing so for religious reasons (which she assumes to be a problem because she equates [146]religiosity with narrow mindedness); but the only systematic nationwide data on reasons for homeschooling indicate that a far more common reason is to protect children from harm. In their most recent nationwide survey (2016), the U.S. Department of Education found that only 12% of homeschooling families reported homeschooling primarily for religious reasons. In contrast, 29% cited their concern about the lack of safety of the school environment as their primary reason and 74% cited that as one of the reasons. Other common reasons checked included the special needs of the children, which the school couldn’t meet, and illness or physical disabilities that the school could not appropriately accommodate. On the basis of available evidence, it is absurd to believe that the total amount of hurt done to children would go down rather than up if homeschooling were outlawed. Education Bartholet, in her article, contends that one of the ways that homeschooling abuses children is by depriving them of an education. She argues, essentially, that if homeschooling is allowed at all it should be allowed only for families where a parent is qualified to teach the standard school curriculum and that homeschooled children should be tested regularly by the state to be sure they are learning that curriculum. Apparently, to Bartholet, education is whatever the state decides to include in their curriculum, and children who are not learning those particular things, on the state’s schedule, are not getting an adequate education. What really is an education? That’s something to which I’ve given a lot of thought. Our team at the [147]Alliance for Self-Directed Education defines education as follows: Education is the sum of everything a person learns that enables that person to live a satisfying and meaningful life. I think that’s a really meaningful, practical definition. Now, think honestly here, how much of education, by that definition, actually occurs in school? And, how much of what is supposed to be learned in school actually contributes to education, so defined? The amount of knowledge and valued skills in our world keeps going up, at exponential rates. Nobody can learn more than a tiny sliver of it. What possible sense does it make to believe that everyone should learn the same sliver? We are much better off with diversity. What is a satisfying and meaningful life for Person A is not the same as that for Person B. Our standard schools do not account at all for these differences; they force everyone to go through the motions of learning the same things, at the same pace, regardless of interest, regardless of need, regardless of the harm caused by forced learning. Homeschooling, properly done, allows children to discover and pursue their own interests and in that way achieve a real education. I understand that the anti-homeschooling, invitation-only conference that Bartholet and her backers had planned to hold at Harvard to follow up on her article has been at least temporarily canceled, maybe because of the pandemic. I hope it will be replaced with a conference where people on all sides of the homeschooling questions are invited for rational discussion of the problems and benefits of homeschooling. —— And now, what do you think? This blog is in part a forum for discussion and your thoughts and questions are respected by me and other readers, whether or not we agree. Please place your comments and questions here, by clicking on the little comment balloon below, rather than sending them to me by private email. I read all comments and questions and try to respond when I think I have something useful to add to what others have said. * Facebook icon SHARE * Twitter icon TWEET * Envelope icon EMAIL * 64COMMENTS [148]My thoughts on your article Submitted by Michael Collins on May 16, 2020 - 8:20am As an educator, your article really resonated with me... Not being from the U.S. I have less understanding of your legal documentations and what is and is not enshrined in law regarding individual rights. However, in principle, I agree with the premise of your argument in terms of what rigid stare run education can do to some children and how it could go against some convention. I also firmly believe education must become more holistic, less structured and more predicated on skills, wellbeing, pro social and pro environmental elements etc. Ultimately moving away from standardised testing... However until employers (and higher education institutions) are also willing to fairly consider those candidates, then schools offer the best way to long term career success. And therefore by homeschooling and potentially depriving children of that future is that not equally a rights violation? Michael * [149]Reply to Michael Collins * [150]Quote Michael Collins [151]I have both an anecdote and a Submitted by Eva Swidler on May 16, 2020 - 9:59am I have both an anecdote and a general remark here, both related to the college question you raise. My anecdote is my daughter. We homeschooled in a fashion very close to (but not quite) unschooling. She just got into U Penn and Bryn Mawr College, two fancy schools. She was recognized by them as "desirable" and admitted, with merit scholarship money. My general remark is that homeschoolers are admitted to college in droves, and once there, do well. This is not just due to a skew towards middle and upper middle class homeschooling, either. Social equity is actually served by homeschooling. In the US, the effect of family social class on homeschooler "achievement" (in conventional terms) is actually minimal, while the effect of family social class on the achievement of public school students is tremendous. (African Americans, for instance, are homeschooling in ever increasing numbers, partially in recognition of the fact that their public schools are often part of creating life problems for their children.) Although I am sure that there are colleges and employers who will look askance at homeschoolers, just as there are some that will prefer private school students to public school ones, on both the anecdotal and statistical level, homeschoolers do more than just fine in getting into and succeeding in college. * [152]Reply to Eva Swidler * [153]Quote Eva Swidler [154]Homeschooling and future employment Submitted by Vandi Foreman on May 16, 2020 - 11:35am In Canada it is possible to take grade 12 equivalent courses as an adult, if one needs proof of certain knowledge to apply for a particular job, or college/university program, one takes an appropriate course to meet their criteria. * [155]Reply to Vandi Foreman * [156]Quote Vandi Foreman [157]Previously homeschooled Smith College Alum Submitted by Anjelika on May 17, 2020 - 4:25am Statistics show that most colleges appreciate the self-discipline and driven nature that unschoolers and homeschoolers bring to higher education. I attended for 4 years and graduated from Smith College, an all women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts, after having been eclectically homeschooled. Many people understand the advantages of homeschooling, including employers. Not all depend on degrees and tests. * [158]Reply to Anjelika * [159]Quote Anjelika [160]your article Submitted by margot schulzke on May 18, 2020 - 12:23pm Excellent. From a former public and private school teacher who has brief personal experience with home schooling. And finds it superior in virtually every way to public or even private schools. And whose children include, among the five of them, one with three graduate degrees, himself a teacher at a public college; one a PhD who earned that degree at UC Berkeley, another with two graduate degrees from Oxford, another with her master's degree in English. Only one of them does not have an advanced degree. We are very much pro-education, and of all our grandchildren, most are home-schooled--and most of them have at least a college degree. One is currently earning his PhD in physics. * [161]Reply to margot schulzke * [162]Quote margot schulzke [163]Public Schools Submitted by Jeff on May 16, 2020 - 9:33am I know of no home school success stories. 3.4% of the student population is being home schooled. If it's superior to public schools we should start hearing about the results. I'm sure it can be done effectively if you have an intelligent, committed parent that focuses on all disciplines evenly. I'm skeptical that parents that choose to home school their kids have the skills and patience to do it right. It's okay with me if parents want to home school. Their property taxes will still pay for the public schools whether they use the schools or not. I'm glad I got to go to public schools. One of the benefits rarely mentioned is that you got a new teacher each year. If you're lucky you'll encounter some really exceptional teachers. Home schooled kids are stuck with the same teacher every year. Hopefully they have a good one, because if they don't they're screwed. * [164]Reply to Jeff * [165]Quote Jeff [166]Learning Submitted by Mandy on May 16, 2020 - 10:46am I am not even going to say 'schooling' because it is about learning and life skills. What are you going to measure as results? These children are normally well rounded and have the requisite learning, to get into university. Often, they take their exams externally, at a younger age. They are not indoctrinated. * [167]Reply to Mandy * [168]Quote Mandy [169]Learning Submitted by Mandy on May 16, 2020 - 10:50am I am not even going to say 'schooling' because it is about learning and life skills. What are you going to measure as results? These children are normally well rounded and have the requisite learning, to get into university. Often, they take their exams externally, at a younger age. They are not indoctrinated. * [170]Reply to Mandy * [171]Quote Mandy [172]Homeschool Success Stories Submitted by RA Orlowski on May 16, 2020 - 4:48pm If you Google "homeschool success stories", you should be able to find what you seem to have been unable to find. * [173]Reply to RA Orlowski * [174]Quote RA Orlowski [175]Google Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 7:33am Yes. I understand how Google works. If I google "alien abduction stories" I can find them, too. Abraham Lincoln didn't attend any schools. I understand that it's possible. * [176]Reply to Jeff * [177]Quote Jeff [178]Google Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 8:03am Another google search that's interesting is: "homeschool transfer to public school". That's the phenomena I see all the time. I'm sure people can spin it as a positive thing ...;, that somehow the homeschooling went so well that the student is now ready for the adventure of joining other kids in the classroom. * [179]Reply to Jeff * [180]Quote Jeff [181]You see it "all the time?" Submitted by LJM on May 17, 2020 - 5:04pm What does that even mean? There are growing numbers of homeschooled adults every year. I fear your attitude on this is like that of a flat-earther or vaccination opponent, in that your mind is made up and no amount of clear, abundant, objective evidence is going to change it. You wouldn't happen to be related to the President, would you? * [182]Reply to LJM * [183]Quote LJM [184]Flat Earth Submitted by Jeff on May 18, 2020 - 7:25am It's a remarkable coincidence that you would mention the flat earth thing. I just watched a documentary last night on NetFlix about the group of people that believe in that stuff. I was quite surprised by the number of people that devote so much of their lives to that viewpoint. The supporters of public schools are the round earth people. I hope that no homeschool parents are teaching their kids that the earth is flat. I do see some similarities of how the homeschool crowd and the flat earth crowd operate. * [185]Reply to Jeff * [186]Quote Jeff [187]how do you measure success? Submitted by Andrea B on May 16, 2020 - 5:09pm All of the research that has been done to compare home educated students as a group with public educated students as a group has found that home educated students do better on every measure from community involvement, voting, and volunteering, to academic testing and achievement. Home educated students are employed and go to college. In what ways do you measure success that show a public school education to be better? * [188]Reply to Andrea B * [189]Quote Andrea B [190]Ignorance is no excuse Submitted by LJM on May 17, 2020 - 5:02pm I've found it's best to not speak confidently on subjects with which I have very little experience, so that I don't say anything patently ridiculous or baselessly insulting. * [191]Reply to LJM * [192]Quote LJM [193]Homeschool is better than public school Submitted by E. K. on May 17, 2020 - 10:14pm Jeff, The average homeschooler performs better on all standardized tests than the average public schooler. On the SAT, they score an extra 72 points, on the Iowa test, they score in the 77th percentile (meaning they are better than 77% of all test-takers) on average. They are also more likely to graduate from college. As for successful homeschoolers? Tim Tebow and many of our presidents were homeschooled. * [194]Reply to E. K. * [195]Quote E. K. [196]Tim Tebow Submitted by Jeff on May 18, 2020 - 9:12am Thanks for sharing that information about Tim Tebow. It doesn't help your argument at all, but it's interesting. Tebow was born in the Philippines where is Mom and Dad served as Baptist missionaries. They moved to Florida and Tim Tebow played football for the local public school. He was homeschooled, but his football success was a tribute to the public school system. The coaches at Allen D. Nease High School deserve the credit for his success playing football, not his homeschooling. I didn't realize how short is NFL career was. He only played games in 2010, 2011 & 2012 for the Broncos and the Jets. He was cut by the Patriots in 2013 and cut by the Eagles in 2015. Tebow's persistent fumbles created uncertainty about his future as a quarterback. * [197]Reply to Jeff * [198]Quote Jeff [199]To Jeff Submitted by Rowena on May 18, 2020 - 12:42am How about the child that has a teacher for only 1 year and the child’s learning is totally screwed up for many years. Seen this happen over and over. Many teachers are great but not all. * [200]Reply to Rowena * [201]Quote Rowena [202]Totally Agree Submitted by Jeff on May 18, 2020 - 7:35am My 3rd Grade teacher was awful. Miss Gould was just out of college and it was her first year teaching. I was lucky to get a different teacher in 4th grade that was much better. I shutter to think of having Miss Gould as my teacher for my entire K-12 education. Some people just aren't good teachers. * [203]Reply to Jeff * [204]Quote Jeff [205]Variety of instructional experiences Submitted by Julie on May 18, 2020 - 8:43am One of the many misconceptions here is that homeschooled children have only one teacher. I have been homeschooling for the past 10 years. My boys begged me to pull them out of public school. I have yet to meet another homeschooled child that only has their parent as an instructor. Parents more rightly should be considered education managers. Along with parental instruction, children are enrolled in classes led by community members, the state, co-ops, and tutoring services. There are also online classes, video instruction courses etc. My oldest started taking on-campus college classes in 10th grade and is becoming an engineer. * [206]Reply to Julie * [207]Quote Julie [208]Yes let’s Submitted by Taylor on May 18, 2020 - 5:45pm The state is better equipped to educate children then their own parents — not any parents — parents who are willing to sacrifice what they would be doing otherwise, to educate their kin? Following this rationale of needing to outsource learning to the state to protect children from their own subpar parents, we could argue it’s in the best interest of babies to forcibly put them in a center so we can make sure they’re getting a good variety of caretakers and don’t go home to crap parents. Please don’t disrespect the high- functioning, secure, loving families who want the world for our children. We exist. We exist in scores. Many more children than you think prefer learning from a trusted parent whom they’ve spent 5 or 6 years building a relationship with. I’m homeschooling my Kindergartener because I love her and know her better than anyone else. Her pre-k program was pushing her to learn her alphabet when she wanted to be running and jumping and playing — because she is five. I’m going to teach her and also respect her unique individual bent. I’m passionate about continuing to teach and nurture her, just like I have been doing since the day she was born. Talking with many other homeschooling moms, they all stress that home education is about the child/ parent relationship. Family is everything. I don’t talk to many people from my public school. Why would I have my child invest their time with people they’ll likely never speak to again? Of women I’ve talked to whose children go to public school, their six year olds leave their house at 8am and don’t get home until 4pm. They have homework when they return. How on earth do you know your six-year-old when you spend such little time together? How do they have time to pursue passions? Rest? Engage in self-directed play? Live? The classroom is artificial learning. Worksheets and tests and memorization, only to be forgotten the next day. My children will have an education far superior to mine. If I’m lucky, I’ll reclaim my own dismal education from public school. * [209]Reply to Taylor * [210]Quote Taylor [211]School Submitted by Tim on May 16, 2020 - 10:22am Good response. In order for a homeschooling situation to be worse than a school situation, it would have to be very bad. Of course we should have societal protections of one kind or another to watch over all kids regardless of whether they are in school or not. That said however, I'm not in a mood to be cordial to the other side, so I'll say this: The truth is, is that schools are designed to shame, divide kids from one another, kill curiosity and sort them into pre-determined societal roles that vary in the amount of money and prestige they reward. The more obedient, the more conforming to the system (what grades really show), the higher the "slot" in society they get. The point is, it is not the content of the classes that is the curriculum, it is the whole process of having to be and get through school is the real curriculum; One of competition, sucking up to disrespectful authority figures, being deprived of more freedom than prisoners are for most of the day, triumphing over your classmates academically etc.. Those kids who can't or won't or do not have the familial financial supports to participate effectively in the zero sum memorizing and obedience competition of school (not everyone can get "A's" because then grades would be worthless, 'not everyone can be at Harvard') are then targeted for the humiliations of special ed classes, detentions etc.. Thus, the illusion of A student being more competent is manufactured by the psychological injuries inflicted on the "lower grade kids" and also them being barred from "high professions" through the licensing monopoly colleges have over "respectable" jobs. Kids memorize unconnected facts, regurgitate them on a test and then forget them 1-2 days afterward (sums up 95% of what school pedagogy consists of). Well, our school system in its modern form was initially constructed by Fredrick the Great, so so it shouldn't be a surprise. If I peaked anyone's interest, then just look up how children fail by John Holt and/or read some of John Gatto's writings on school and education. * [212]Reply to Tim * [213]Quote Tim [214]Children and learning Submitted by Mandy on May 16, 2020 - 10:49am Everyone should read the book 'Teach your Own' by John Holt, before they decided about what is best for their own children. They should also know their child very well, and what would suit that child. My child, my choice. * [215]Reply to Mandy * [216]Quote Mandy [217]ignorance is bliss, maybe? Submitted by Debbie on May 16, 2020 - 11:09am Thank you Dr. Gray, again. I have read your words of wisdom, compassion, empathy, and justice for the last twenty years or so. I've found comfort and strength while choosing the odd route of homeschooling. I could write a response to this article that would be book length, but I'll make just a few points/comments. I saw this professor's article a few weeks ago. I only skimmed it though. I made the assumption of her ignorance on the subject and her self-righteousness of her way being the only way. I appreciate your take on it. So, here are some things I noticed while homeschooling our children (now 22 and 19). The most valuable gift was the relationship aspect, with themselves and others. Because they were free to be, they developed into young adults who know who they are. They are not told by outsiders who they are. They struggle, as young people do, but they process differently. They're less influenced by others. They seem respectful of their own minds, their own thoughts, their own bodies, but oddly not selfishly. We talk. We respond. We make time to understand one another. We were blessed to choose this route and have no regrets of spending 24/7 time together. We know each other. We built lives together. What a miracle it was to have had two healthy children. We chose this "road less traveled" and would do it over again the same way. Way too many positives with this path! Oh, I recall at the beginning of this journey being asked by concerned people, "Don't you worry about socialization?" I look from this vantage point and now day, "Absolutely yes, that's why you may want to homeschool!" Maybe we just were a fortunate family, but I see these two young adults and put a thumbs up and say, "It was worth it!" * [218]Reply to Debbie * [219]Quote Debbie [220]secular homeschooling Submitted by K on May 16, 2020 - 11:23am There is a large group of secular homeschoolers, and it includes unschoolers but also some who are using various curriculum and resources to tailor their child's education to their interests and abilities. I don't feel like their voice is heard enough in the fight for homeschooling rights, and I think it is acutally their voice that would help to win over the old liberals, or at least help them see homeschoolers as heterogeneous. They like progressive education and many people are doing that style at home because their public school doesn't do it. Child-led learning is better than standardized curriculum, they won't argue with that. Trying to ban homeschooling to catch child abusers is just plain stupid, it's like banning cell phones because some people text while driving. The question that people disagree on that is a tough one is whether parents have a right to teach their kids what they like, which may be intelligent design instead of evolution or it may be that they don't learn about climate change or are taught that it doesn't exist. It may be that they are taught that women should be subservient or that whites are superior. Public school doesn't work as well to change these views as Bartholet seems to think it does, but I imagine she thinks that at least at public school the kids would have to hear better views of these issues. However, the things that get forced down our throats at public school don't just magically become our own internalized values. In fact, the forcing of these values is often a cause for hostility towards them. * [221]Reply to K * [222]Quote K [223]Homeschooling Submitted by Mille on May 16, 2020 - 11:46am In my case going to school was an escape from an abusive mother. I attended a parochial school where it was very regimented. I welcomed the orderlines and the expectation that I wouldn't be slapped or yelled at. I was still a lousy student even with tutoring from a kind teacher. Most the learning came about on my own though, with subjects I was interested in. With the understanding that I could absorb and understand what I was reading about, convinced me I was capable. * [224]Reply to Mille * [225]Quote Mille [226]Natural and holistic Submitted by Amie on May 16, 2020 - 12:43pm We began our homeschooling journey 20 years ago for two main reasons. One was because our two young boys were feeling anxious every time they thought about their bus ride to and from school, because of the happenings on the bus with the older children. Secondly, because they were classified as struggled learners while still in kindergarten, and they were spending a majority of their days not being allowed to freely be who they were. Curious and active little boys. When I learned that homeschooling was even an option, we gladly jumped on board and I have now spent the last 20 years truly getting to know each of our 8 children because they have been free to explore and learn as they will. Contrary to when we began this journey, where I had been trained to believe that someone must “teach” children required and approved curriculum and they must learn and pass tests showing this, I have learned that human being learn naturally and individually, and that the importance of how and when this happens has been misplaced in our society. We can trust ourselves, our children, and others to learn what they need to, as it’s needed, because we make the connection of how it applies to life- more importantly- our personal lives. Everyone should be recognized as an individual with a path designed just for them. Each with their own personality, backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses, passions, interests and goals. Although not perfect, my husband and I have always made ourselves available to our children, even as adults, and given them unconditional love, encouragement, guidance, and a good deal of freedom to explore interests and discover for themselves who they are. I will confess that there have been times that I felt very much alone because our way of living and learning is “unconventional” in comparison to a majority of the people we are surrounded by. Although it feels completely natural to live our days as we have, our society is indoctrinated to believe learning and education has to happen a certain way. This makes it challenging for conversation and relationship building. Thank you for this wonderful write up, and thank you for allowing me to share. * [227]Reply to Amie * [228]Quote Amie [229]Kids and learning continue to be pigeonholed Submitted by Lisa on May 16, 2020 - 3:11pm Many of these responses reflect common, incorrect beliefs that adults are the gatekeepers of knowledge, and Young people are either incapable, unwilling or unmotivated to learn. Unfortunately most adults are only familiar with the ways that controlled children behave. Having once been controlled children themselves, they’ve grown into adults who have internalized the sorry idea that kids need to be coerced, through gold stars, shame and fear of punishment, to learn and become “functioning” adults. Children who are granted autonomy, and empowered to explore their world - given help with, as they ask, and access to the tools and resources that adults use (computers, tablets, internet, community, friends, mentors) - by loving and connected caregivers, are learning from a plethora of sources. Some may be teachers, but more often then not, they are learning directly from practitioners, that they choose themselves, in their fields of interest. Self-Directed kids are not waiting for any adult, teacher, parent or otherwise, to tell them what and how they should learn. They aren’t waiting to be graded and assessed to see if they are ready to advance. They are eager and willing to pursue their interests and, with their internal compass and confidence intact, they are learning all of the time. * [230]Reply to Lisa * [231]Quote Lisa [232]Great Timely Article Submitted by Claire Komarec on May 16, 2020 - 4:31pm I was more or less content with my young kids at school (kinder, 2nd, 3rd)... until the coronavirus. If strict social distancing rules are gonna be placed on young children at school (masks, no playing, fear of others germs, extra stress) then maybe school will no longer be a safe healthy place physically and emotionally. Home would be a better place to learn for society and the child. The old institutional model of warehousing large groups of kids will not work with the pandemic, we need to admit that and be flexible original thinkers. Maybe we are unable to do that because of all the public school group think most of us were educated on. * [233]Reply to Claire Komarec * [234]Quote Claire Komarec [235]Covid and public school Submitted by Tammie S. on May 18, 2020 - 12:59am I agree. I homeschool our children but I am a public preschool teacher in the mornings. I cannot imagine what it will be like social distancing with 4 year olds. They seek out the physical closeness with each other and with their teachers. * [236]Reply to Tammie S. * [237]Quote Tammie S. [238]The threat of homeschooling and self-education Submitted by Matthew M Clair on May 16, 2020 - 6:06pm "I understand that the anti-homeschooling invitation-only conference that Bartholet and her backers had planned to hold at Harvard to follow up on her article..." I find this quote disturbing yet I am not surprised by it. As a retired public school teacher, my wife and I homeschooled our children after both completed 1st grade. In regards to my children's education and development, this decision was our most important one. This duel perspective has given me a unique understanding of learning, education and schooling. It doesn't surprise me that an anti-homeschooling conference would exist. I am sure that the conference would have been attended by "educational experts" be they teachers, administrators, academics, school board members and of course political types representing corporate publishing companies. In simple terms homeschooling and alternative self-education models such as Sudbury schools are an economic threat to the present school model. The whole educational structure in this country whether public and in some cases private involves school boards, text publishers, college and university education departments, teacher and administrator unions is based on the age segregated authoritarian classroom model. This whole structure is supported by billions of dollars in tax payer money. Change the model and that structure become obsolete. Our present school system is not designed for the good of the child or the child's natural instincts to learn, it's about the money. * [239]Reply to Matthew M Clair * [240]Quote Matthew M Clair [241]Schooling vs Learning Submitted by S.A.Hall on May 16, 2020 - 7:55pm If home-schooled children learned to interact with children from different walks of life, children who don't look like them, children who worshiped differently, speak differently and live economically and socially different lives, it would work - but they don't. Home schooling parents may claim extracurricular activities , yet when confronted they admit they avoid racial, ethnic or religious mixing. Shakespeare and the classics are often avoided. Historical facts these parents are uncomfortable with are avoided, as is science the parents don't believe in. These parents teach their children what they want them to know (learn) causing many who enter college find themselves uncomfortable around mixed groups - racially and sexually. Many find their rigid, often limited views challenged by professors and students alike. When the choir, band, sports team, debate club, or field trip is restricted to a specific dogma, financial class, race or ethnic group, children fail to be prepared for the real world. They succeed academically, however many fail to grow socially. * [242]Reply to S.A.Hall * [243]Quote S.A.Hall [244]Schooling vs Learning Submitted by Heather E. on May 16, 2020 - 11:22pm I don't know how many homeschool families you know, but they don't sound anything like us or the homeschool families that we know. Classical education is currently the most popular method for homeschooling. Reading classics is a necessary part of that. There is a fast-growing population of secular homeschoolers, which means that you are certain to encounter people from different backgrounds & beliefs in homeschooling groups these days. Our children play with neighborhood friends after school, go to Scouts, ballet, etc. Do I have any control over what families sign up for the same activities that we do? Of course not, and having grown up in a large, multi-cultural city myself, I would have no desire to control that. I'm sure there are some homeschooling families out there that fit the stereotype that you have painted, but not any that I know. * [245]Reply to Heather E. * [246]Quote Heather E. [247]The same argument - that Submitted by LR on May 17, 2020 - 8:39am The same argument - that children attending them do not have the opportunity to learn with children from other backgrounds - could be made about public schools in the US, since de facto segregation is a reality. Jonathan Kozol wrote a fantastic book about this, The Shame of the Nation: the Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. * [248]Reply to LR * [249]Quote LR [250]Homeschooling Potential Submitted by Suzanne on May 17, 2020 - 12:11am It is interesting to note the article suggests homeschooling will be outlawed in future. It seems like this is an extreme stance to obtain legal proof for. Although schools provide much of value quite frankly a lot still gets left to the home environment to address. I once was privileged to attend a seminar run by the CEO of the disability care company I worked for. I was working with young autistic or dual diagnosis adults. The CEO was very Anti home learning and went so far as to spend the morning of the seminar blaming the parents for almost all of the difficulties the young people encountered. I was disgusted with the 'parental blame theory' and left for calmer waters shortly after. I feel some persons of privilege and power can fall into the 'parent blame theory' and I fear this to be behind anti-homeschooling legislation threats. A bit too close to mass indoctrination basis of intent and logic. However, schools are treasured houses of learning, as long as they remain within fair and reasonable attendance constructs. * [251]Reply to Suzanne * [252]Quote Suzanne [253]It’s uncanny, I was just Submitted by Loyal reader on May 17, 2020 - 8:16am It’s uncanny, I was just thinking about this today and hoping you would write a post about it. I’ve seen the argument repeatedly (in the context of the UK) that schools need to be open because it allows teachers to check on children they suspect are being abused. Sometimes the argument is phrased in such a way to make it sound as if the main purpose of having children attend school is for the purpose of child protection. Thank you as always. I will keep referring back to this article if further anti-homeschooling articles appear. * [254]Reply to Loyal reader * [255]Quote Loyal reader [256]DIY Projects Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 8:24am It's easy to find examples of Do-it-Yourselfers that renovated a house or fixed up an old car. But, we all know of people that attempted a DIY project and messed it up, or failed to complete what they started. If you only look at the success stories you might convince yourself that you can duplicate that success. I'm sure most homeschool parents start off thinking "how hard can it be?". And, obviously, there are examples of students that never transferred into public schools. I'm curious to find out how many of these DIY projects end up being completed by professionals. * [257]Reply to Jeff * [258]Quote Jeff [259]Insulting much? Submitted by Victor on May 17, 2020 - 12:31pm Children ARE NOT houses or cars. They ARE NOT built by adults. Children have their own minds, their own beliefs, their own view of the world, and they construct this view for themselves from their own interactions with the world and with other people. The idea that adults "build" a child's education is condescending, arrogant, and foolish. I am a state-licensed, "highly-qualified" (as designated by the state) secondary education teacher. I work in a school that specializes in helping teenage girls with trauma, anxiety, depression, and addictions (including addictions to self-harming) . Whenever my school has long term success (currently at about 75% for people that have finished our program at least 2 years ago--yes, we absolutely track that), it's because the child that succeeded in overcoming their trauma/depression/anxiety worked well with our methods and chose to listen to our guidance that they can choose for themselves. At the very center of our method is emphasizing that it is the child's choice whether or not they will succeed, regardless of what life throws at them. Our licensed psychotherapists make individual choice and internal locus of control the very center of therapy. Roughly 35% of our students' depression/trauma/anxiety was caused as a direct result of school or an interaction with a school employee at a school function or during actual school hours (this includes public schools and private schools that use an educational model substantially similar to public schools). About 0.5% of our students have ever been homeschooled. Well over 90% of our students said that their trauma/depression/anxiety was exacerbated by public school, even when the original problem had no connection to school. From my experience while working at this school, many children are not mentally or emotionally equipped for the "factory" model of schooling. I also homeschooled both of my children. My older child (now 20) was homeschooled from 1st grade on. She is highly successful. My younger child (now 18) never went to public school. My first child's experience in Kindergarten is why we chose to homeschool. After 1 year of half-day Kindergarten, my older child already showed signs of depression, anxiety, and trauma. She went from being a fun-loving, reading, friendly, socially mature 5-year old to a reclusive, sad, distant, non-reading, and shy 6-year old. From my own experience (anecdotal) and the experience of students I teach (actually tracked statistics on thousands of WEALTHY--our program is expensive--students that suffer from severe trauma/depression/anxiety), I can conclude that the current model of primary and secondary education does not serve the needs of MANY children and is harmful to the emotional well-being of many children. While a majority make it through, many hate it. It is likely a minority that actually enjoy it. Now, at age 20, my older child loves Shakespeare, loves the classics (reads Aristotle, Plato, and many Asian classics), loves to make music (violin, viola, guitar, ukulele, and piano--currently adapting to a 5-string violin), loves to travel, and makes friends with almost everyone she meets. She most definitely thinks and acts for herself. She says she may one day go to college or a conservatory, but for now, she can earn her own living (she has had her own business since age 16) and college would just be an added expense that gets in the way of what she wants to do and learn right now. My younger child, at age 18, has so many interests that he is not quite sure yet what he wants to do. He is an ambidextrous polymath. He has trouble incorporating all of his interests into a single career or business. He is planning to go apprentice as an electrician as soon as he can (virus lockdown got in the way of him already doing it). He also contributes artwork and sometimes even computer code to open source computer games that he enjoys playing. He plays classical guitar and has practiced martial arts since age 15 (currently at purple belt--half-way to black belt in his studio). Both of my children know how to cook, clean, launder their own clothes, budget, track expenses, buy insurance, care for young children, and generally manage a household--things that formal schooling almost always forgets to teach. Our homeschooling style was close to unschooling with: eclectic lessons in reading, math, history, science, and theater arts; formal lessons based on student interest (e.g. violin, martial arts); and the rest was all self-directed studies that my children did because they were curious. We "staycationed" a lot to local theater productions (our local Shakespeare Festival won a Tony for Best Regional Theater when my children were young), museums, campsites, and hiking trails. We did some road trips (usually once a year). We did one giant month-long vacation last year to Europe (mostly Portugal), but also little bit in Lower Saxony and The Netherlands as a "graduation" experience. My experience as a homeschool father tells me that, if the parents are loving and attentive to their children's needs, then homeschool can be the most ideal situation for a child's learning. * [260]Reply to Victor * [261]Quote Victor [262]Who decides if the kid gets to public school? Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 2:51pm "Children have their own minds, their own beliefs, their own view of the world, and they construct this view for themselves from their own interactions with the world and with other people. The idea that adults "build" a child's education is condescending, arrogant, and foolish." Are you suggesting that 6 year old kids are deciding that they want to be homeschooled? I'm glad my parents didn't leave it to me to build my own education plan. Clearly the 6 year old kid has no real choice. If the parents decide they're going to home school, the kid is going to listen. Most of the transfer to public school stories I've read are where kids complained enough that the parents finally relented. * [263]Reply to Jeff * [264]Quote Jeff [265]Anonymous wrote: Submitted by Bridget on May 18, 2020 - 1:26am Anonymous wrote: " I'm glad my parents didn't leave it to me to build my own education plan. . That's sad. Honestly most 6 year olds I know love learning and are curious about the world and engaged with it. They ask questions relentlessly. They crave skills and autonomy. They want to know everything. And then we send them to school and it stops. That drive to learn is sapped out of them by a system that has no interest in what they actually want to learn, that teaches dependency on being told "what" is worthy of interest and what is not. Teachers tell interested, engaged students not to read ahead... why would they do that? What does the child learn when they're told only to engage during certain hours and on certain subjects, The self directed children I've met don't lose that spark. They aren't told to stop learning one thing arbitrarily. * [266]Reply to Bridget * [267]Quote Bridget [268]My 6 year old Submitted by Nicole on May 18, 2020 - 10:13am My now 6 year old asked last year if I would teach her to read. She has been motivated to learn many things. She loves to skip count! I could not skip count by 4s when I was that age. I remember asking my mom to teach me to read when I was 5 as well. My mom never finished college, but taught me well enough to always be in the advanced reading classes in school. * [269]Reply to Nicole * [270]Quote Nicole [271]Former Teacher Submitted by Nicole on May 17, 2020 - 9:10am My husband and I both pursued careers in education. A year after our first was born we began talking about homeschooling because what we witnessed in our separate districts was so different than what we remember of school. We didn’t want a mediocre education for our children & we didn’t want them experience the bullying & other negative social behaviors displayed by peers & teachers. We’ve completed our first year homeschooling and my daughter is at the same level academically as her peers would be spending an hour a day on academics While we are Christians and homeschool mostly with other Christians our faith was not a primary reason to homeschool. We were apart of a co-op with people that were more liberal than us but we had unity in our desire for our children to be home educated. We take a more classical approach and the parents we home school with all have degrees in various fields and some with masters & a few PHDs. In the last 10 years I’ve met many homeschooled adults & there isn’t much difference between someone like me & them socially. * [272]Reply to Nicole * [273]Quote Nicole [274]Skilled Educators Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 10:33am Your co-op seems like a good arrangement. Your kids are being educated by professionals. I doubt it's representative of most homeschool arrangements. I found this online: "You will learn with right along with your kids. Homeschooling is a family affair. I’ve learned so much over the years with my boys. Until I reviewed first-grade social studies with my youngest, I thought Christopher Columbus sailed over on the Mayflower. Not kidding. Don’t judge me." I'm glad she learned that Columbus didn't sail on the Mayflower. The woman that posted that doesn't have a college degree, but it's okay if she tries to educate her boys from home. * [275]Reply to Jeff * [276]Quote Jeff [277]Constantly Learning Submitted by Jess on May 17, 2020 - 11:57am I consider myself to be intelligent and well-educated. I took AP level courses in high school, receiving college credit for history, biology, calculus, and French. I have a bachelors degree and a masters degree. Yet I can absolutely relate to the condescending quote you referenced above. Because of the way history was taught to me in school, I had no frame of reference, no real understanding of how one event led into the next, or the overarching or repeating trends you see in history. Everything was taught as units - lets study the pilgrims because it’s November, then we’ll move on to a unit about the ancient Egyptians. American history and world history are taught as two distinct topics. I’ve learned more about history through homeschooling my now fourth-grade son than I ever learned while I was in school. As the saying goes, the best way to learn is to teach. * [278]Reply to Jess * [279]Quote Jess [280]Tip of the Iceberg Submitted by Jeff on May 17, 2020 - 3:10pm The Mayflower quote is important because it's a basic fact. I don't expect everyone to understand the underlining reasons why the Pilgrims left England, but mixing it up with Columbus is pretty bad. I don't expect that everyone understand debits and credits and balance sheets, but I would expect my accountant to know them. Someone that doesn't have a grasp of history shouldn't attempt to teach history. * [281]Reply to Jeff * [282]Quote Jeff [283]Tip of the Iceberg Submitted by Anelle on May 18, 2020 - 2:01am There was an interesting article in a newspaper on the questions (and answers) that parents Google in order to help their children with their school work during lockdown. It shows how much of the information we were forced to learn was really a waste of time. It was not inbedded in our memories and it has no impact on our adult lives. Yet we were measured on facts such as the name of a boat. What is more important? Knowing the name of a boat or understanding why Christopher Columbus crossed the ocean and seeing the impact that action had on another nation and how it shaped history and being able to link that to the way people behave today? The teachers' role is to pour information /knowledge into the child's (empty) brain. The parents' role as facilitator of learning is to provide the child with the resources and to help him work through them. How the parent do this depends on the age and skill level of the child. It is thus not a necessary requirement for the parent to hold a degree in every subject. The parent's biggest responsibility is to choose the resources wisely (there are no shortage of excellent materials written for home education) and to ask for assistance when stuck. Home education parents also make use of tutors and or family members and friends with a different skill set. If you teach a child how to learn and how to search for answers (instead of waiting for the information to be presented to them at a pre-ordained time) their learning will not be limited by the capability of their teachers. * [284]Reply to Anelle * [285]Quote Anelle [286]Oh dear.... Submitted by Bridget on May 18, 2020 - 1:17am >I'm glad she learned that Columbus didn't sail on the Mayflower. The woman that posted that doesn't have a college degree, but it's okay if she tries to educate her boys from home. But given the era homeschooling became 'legal' in the US she's likely a product of the public school system that you're arguing would benefit her children more than learning at home. * [287]Reply to Bridget * [288]Quote Bridget [289]We don't know her story Submitted by Jeff on May 18, 2020 - 8:01am "But given the era homeschooling became 'legal' in the US she's likely a product of the public school system that you're arguing would benefit her children more than learning at home." We could blame the public schools for her thinking Columbus sailed on the Mayflower. But, I imagine she wasn't taught that by a teacher. Public Schools do have a problem with attendance. It's a battle with some parents to ensure their kids get on the bus every morning. I was one of those perfect attendance kids. I only missed a few days of my entire K-12 education. I have my parents to thank for that. I remember some kids that were AWOL quite a bit. Public school teachers can only teach the kids that show-up. * [290]Reply to Jeff * [291]Quote Jeff [292]Ironically Submitted by Nicole on May 18, 2020 - 9:49am I was taught in elementary school that Columbus set out to prove the world was round. I believed that till I was probably in middle school. I taught with a 1st grader teacher that didn’t know the freezing or boiling point of water while she was teaching kids how a thermometer worked. I worked as an aide in college and the main teacher I worked with For 2 years failed her EC-4 certification while I had already passed mine. She was going through an alternative certification program. It takes practice to be a good teacher. I truly feel sorry for my first year of students. My last 3 years I basically ignored the standards & taught what my students needed. That last year I had the highest passing rate than I did before. * [293]Reply to Nicole * [294]Quote Nicole [295]50-year educator Submitted by Martha on May 17, 2020 - 10:52am I have taught in public schools. I have taught at the college level. I have taught teachers. I have taught people who were home-schooled. And I have helped teach home-schoolers when their parents felt unqualified to teach certain subjects (mostly high school math) or wanted to be sure their kids were "up to standards." Home-schoolers are, almost without exception, among the best students I have ever had the pleasure to work with--and they are extremely productive and successful adults. They are lawyers, IT people, diversified farmers, small business owners, artists--I could go on and on. Almost all the avenues they have pursued as adults grew out of their interests as children. 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