Did anyone here come to the realization that homeschooling isn’t all bad? I got a tutor for my DD for some exam over the summer and noticed how much more she learns in this 1 hour per week with the tutor (plus moderate homework) than in her daily math class at school. The tutor is obviously motivated because she gets paid a lot. also IMO much more qualified than the average MS teacher. I am not a fan of isolating children but generally homeschooled kids have a lot of social interaction in sports teams and other situations. What do you think? Rather than spending 7 hours in school each day, DD could have 2 private lessons, work on her own a bit and probably be much more advanced.
That’s been my experience as well. We homeschooled one of our children for a while, did maybe two to three hours per day and he learned so much more than in a regular school setting. Obviously there was much more time for other activities (sport/arts/ etc.) which benefitted him as well.
@anonymous What is wrong with our schools that they waste so much time and don’t teach effectively? Even when my DD takes her exam (for which we hired the tutor to begin with), I am going to keep her because this senseless school doesn’t teach.
Public or private?
@Anonymous Public
Came upon this on the heels of yelling at my kindergartener and second grader to effing pay attention to the books being read to them over a computer. So, no. This type of schooling is terrible for little kids.
@Anonymous OP. The tutor is also via zoom. It’s just not 8 hours of “online childcare”.
OR. Not sure I understand your reply, but IME, any sort of online teaching or programming is generally undesirable for the ages of my children. They are not thriving. This is the age group where I’d believe that study stating distance learning worked out to being a whole year behind.
@Anonymous I meant to agree that online school is bad for very young children - just like online summer camp, it’s almost pointless. I don’t think they learn much.
I think it depends on the age of the child. For my younger kids, they go to school more for the social interaction, so teaching them at home wouldn't be as beneficial.
It's just like work. If you WAH you get everything done in a few hours. If you go to the office is tons of wasted time. I worked remotely even pre-pandemic -- I wipe out my work in no time flat and spend the rest of the day going to pilates, volunteering, painting.
I've started wondering about this too. I suspect pre-pandemic a lot of parents had this idea that kids are going into this black box and are learning a lot. Now we see first hand, that no, they are not learning that much on a day-to-day basis. And by definition, classroom learning is not tailored to individual needs and strengths.
Exactly, lol. This was my realization last week.
Have been comparing notes between friends who are fully remote and friends whose kids are hybrid. The remote kids get a TINY FRACTION of the school day, but they purport to cover exactly the same material as the in-person kids. Go figure. If it's accurate that they're covering the same information, then there must be a lot of wasted time during the school day.