Ah yes. High School, depending on the school, administration and guidance personnel can and encourages parents to be involved in their educational development. We have a HS student who remains on the Principal’s Honor Roll and will be a senior in the upcoming year. He managed to balance school and playing HS sports. He aspires to be a Cybersecurity Analyst and has already earned IT certification through the HS program. His instructor is facilitating the next level at colleges after HS. All things are possible attending “regular” school. As with everything, depends on the individual?
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Do you realize what kind of grind that is, putting in a full workday, plus classroom prep for homeschool, plus actually teaching the kids? In addition to all the other duties that are necessary to make a household work?
Have you ever actually done that?
I’m glad you’re well organized enough to make that work.
Not everybody can do that.
3 out of 4 of my grandchildren are homeschooled. . I was lucky and public school wasn’t like it is today when I raised my kids. Of course it isn’t easy. 2 of them have their mom home full time. 1 has a mom that is successfully self employed and works a shorter work week to give her more time to devote to homeschooling. They also belong to great homeschool groups.
My daughter could make a lot more money, they chose to put their child’s education first. They use a lot of life lessons for school. Just as an example, they teach reading, spelling, math and science while growing a garden that helps feed their family. They go on low cost learning vacations that the children plan. They do everything too. Parents come up with the amount they have for the trip and the kids do the budget for everything. They research the place they decide to go to. They learn the history behind where it is they are going. Grocery shopping is a class.
I am so proud of the parents my children have become.
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As you should be.
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Does it require sitting there beside them 7 hours a day?
Or is being accessible when needed sufficient?
Failure is learning if help is provided.
Parents used to know how to do this.
Homeschooling is much more productive. The homeschool group my grandsons go to even have a parent led class for financial peace university fir highschoolers. They have a drama class, an art class, a choir and physical education every tuesday. Parents meet monthly and each donates time to the group according to their skills.
Homeschooling done right is efficient and produces very well rounded, successful adults.
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Beautiful!
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The fact is not everybody can put in that kind of grind. It’s why we have private schools.
You make the sacrifices you need to make according to your priorities.
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I’m not sure “that kind of grind” is necessary.
Ya know as I read through this, I was noticing that most everything the lefties want they already can have without changing anything. They are free to set up their own little socialist microcosm right now. Get a group of liked minded people. Together purchase some land. Combine all your income and use that income to take care of who you want. There are so many of you, why don’t you all try it out? Oh wait, isn’t that what you are doing in California and tons of people left and the homeless took over?
Look if you want to pay more taxes, nobody is stopping you. If you want to feed and house homeless people, no one is stopping you. If you want to pay for other peoples healthcare, no one is stopping you. If you want to sponsor a family that wants to immigrate to the USA, no one is stopping you. If you want to start a school that teaches all that stuff you want your kids to learn, no one is stopping you from homeschooling them. If you want to call people what ever you want to call them , no one Is stopping you. If you have so much support, do it for yourselves with your own money and without trying to force other people who don’t want it to comply.
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I taught all my kids to read before they were five years old using phonics. On walks we would read number plates, letter boxes, shop signs. We read book together with them sounding out intermittent words andvthen phrases and then sentences. We explored coastlines and forests and parks. We played games. They made things and helped fix things. They learned to treat others as they wanted to be treated. These skills are a sufficient basis for children to continue learning any subject for the rest of their lives. They don’t need a state-imposed regime of educational content.
Primary schools were a church innovation where they provided education on Sundays in reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic for children forced to work during the industrial revolution. The state, jealous of the kudos churches were receiving for their good work and unhappy with the biblical content used to teach, moved to provide education as well. Eventually, state managed compulsory primary education became centralised, secular and subsidised so as to have more and more state control of the ideas children could have.
Where did you get this?
They tried it in Oregon back in the 80s. They built a self sustaining city. Built their own lakes. . The nearby population has an absolute fit and then groups organized to take down the commune through the courts.
It was in the middle of nowhere too.
I’d love to read more about that.
It’s basically what created the FARC in Colombia.
They actually wound up arming themselves too 
Ah, a little more to it than you made it sound in your original comment, neh?
And now, the Rest of The Story. 
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The FARC are a much better example.
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