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November 25, 2006, 10:23 am PST
Testing?
Quote From: julie1418I think you missed a "not" in there, but I get your meaning! LOL!
I agree with you. I have seen many parents who couldn't read and comprehend simple forms think they should home school...parents who lack basic skills such as constructing a coherent sentence...yet they think they can educate their children. Very few parents think, ' I am really not qualified for this!'
I agree that there are too many teachers who are not effective, but at least there are standards for teacher certification. There is a system for weeding out the abysmally unqualified.
Too many people look at the home schooling success stories and think it must be an easy path. That simply is not true. You just don't hear about the home schooled kids who are getting a lot of "home" but very little "school." Those kids do not participate in the studies and testing. They often end up back in the school system after a year or two, and then the school gets blamed when the child is so far behind! Although you only made a slight mention of testing I wanted to comment on testing. I am not against testing at some capacities, but don't think it is all it is cracked up to be either. I used to subscridbe to a regular school teacher's magazine to see what they thought, studied, taught, etc. and one article with a lot of research behind it said that testing does not adequately determine a students intelligence or ability. I think in many ways good test scores come to those who are able to sustain enough of the infomation they have been given to get it on the paper when they need to. After that who knows. A man I know who is an engineer is brilliant, but he never had good test scores. He just couldn't do well on tests. He wasn't dumb it just didn't work out for him. Luckily that didn't hold him back.
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