To home school your child do you need to have a high education yourself?
cherie v asked:
I have a child who is having a lot of trouble at school and not doing any school work as he get distracted. I was thinking maybe home education but i don’t have a high education myself.
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i can’t say about the rest of the country but in tennessee ,no. in tn you have a choice of two or three different programs to choose from. you buy the books and follow the course. you grade the work and turn in the results. my first wife and i pulled our daughter out of public schools and home schooled. this was back in 1999, so things may have changed. check out this site. you may or may not find info on your area.http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/default.asp
i do not think so main thing is how to understand child understanding & if you have higher education so thats a great advantage to u.
If you are hiring tutors for your child ,i do not think higher education for uyou is not really necessary.
Have you discussed the problem with the school? (I say this because sometimes the school has both the best idea of what the problem could be and the quickest access to any tests or expertise that may be necessary. If they know you care and wish to discuss rather than blame or accuse, they should be your best source of help!
If you do decide to home school, then it depends on the rules in your country or state. In the UK, the framework is fairly minimal – you need to let the current school and the LEA know your intention. Don’t forget, you may think you have not got a high level of education, but your knowledge is of value and may consist of information not generally tought in schools! for example, I was brought up in a rural area, and knowledge about animals and plants, gardening, jam making, water dousing, old artifacts (the romans built a road near to where I lived) was all around me. Any one of those could be the springboard to a lifestyle or career and yet a lot was not taught in schools. I had one teacher who helped us make clay from soil and make pots, another who helped us make a drum from a pigs bladder plus other musical instruments and we played them all – that was actually in a normal state school. I have taught Romanies and found their sense of geography and place (even worldwide not just nationally) has been excellent.
However, it would be wise to try and enlist help; you might be able to find a tutor for specific important knowledge such as Maths or Science; there are online resources and iTunes lectures most are free. There are also local homeschool groups who meet regularly to help each other and to ensure children still have friends of a similar age. There is also yahoo answers and other online help. It does sound as though you wish your education level was higher; if that is the case you owe it to your children to try to ensure they do not have the same regrets, though I still say value your skills and knowledge even if it is not the sort that gains degrees. One of the people I looked up to worked with stone and created parts of buildings that were just amazing.