Tag: mixed experience
Updated on February 6, 2020 by admin
“If you are a parent reading this: Ask yourself, why am I homeschooling? Can I give my child a proper education? You owe your child a proper education.” I was homeschooled from kindergarten to eighth grade and also… Read More
Updated on December 13, 2017 by CRHE
“Now that I am a parent myself, I recognize the pride and naivety of any parent—no matter how loving and well-meaning—who thinks they can be the sole adult and authority in their kids’ lives
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“I believe oversight of homeschooling is a necessary starting point. I also encourage parents who are homeschooling to actively distinguish their roles as teacher and parent. I encourage them to learn about the effects of social contact on children’s brain development, and follow the recommendations of mental health professionals for each age group.”
Updated on May 31, 2017 by CRHE
“My homeschooling put me on the dean’s list in college. But I didn’t know anything about life beyond academics. … My parents focused so much on academics, shunning extracurricular activities, that I had no idea how to do anything else.”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“Homeschooling students who, like me, are privileged to have the skills necessary to fill in the gaps in our education can often bounce back from sub-standard educations. But others, like my brothers, who lack these skills will forever pay the price. The costs of the lack of oversight are borne by the most vulnerable.”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“If there had been more regulations on homeschooling in the states in which I lived I would have been more aware of my success or failure as my children’s primary educator. We are taught as homeschoolers to protect our privacy at all costs. But so much stress would have been alleviated with more oversight.”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“Upon settling in Pennsylvania, which has regulations that are generally seen as “stringent,” my parents refused to report, having not reported previously. I met other homeschooling families who followed the laws and their children usually participated in a co-op or other activities with other homeschoolers. . . . I was not aware of any educational shortcoming in my friends—even the large families used evaluators and spent a lot of time DOING school.”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“In New Jersey, things fell apart. Without oversight, there was no need to think about compiling a portfolio. Without state standards, there was no benchmark for my progress. We still tried to follow the Pennsylvania guidelines for high school (3 years of math, 3 of science, 4 of English, etc.), but no one was there to check up on us or offer help as I entered harder subjects.”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“I support oversight of homeschooling because every child deserves a good education in all subjects. I received a great education in English grammar, and I could recite entire chapters from the Bible. But my parents gave up teaching me basic algebra, my textbooks viewed history through a primarily anti-Catholic lens, I was warned against studying the humanities, and I have spent a decade unlearning much of the “science” I was taught.”
Tag: mixed experience
Jackie H.: “You owe your child a proper education”
Updated on February 6, 2020 by admin
“If you are a parent reading this: Ask yourself, why am I homeschooling? Can I give my child a proper education? You owe your child a proper education.” I was homeschooled from kindergarten to eighth grade and also… Read More
Category: Blog, Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, Massachusetts, mixed experience, testimonial
W. S. Hunter: “Parents are flawed people, like all of us”
Updated on December 13, 2017 by CRHE
“Now that I am a parent myself, I recognize the pride and naivety of any parent—no matter how loving and well-meaning—who thinks they can be the sole adult and authority in their kids’ lives
Category: Blog, Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, Louisiana, mixed experience, North Carolina, testimonial
Katrina B.: “My parents sincerely tried their best”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“I believe oversight of homeschooling is a necessary starting point. I also encourage parents who are homeschooling to actively distinguish their roles as teacher and parent. I encourage them to learn about the effects of social contact on children’s brain development, and follow the recommendations of mental health professionals for each age group.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, mixed experience, testimonial, Washington
Eleanor Skelton: “I saw no balance”
Updated on May 31, 2017 by CRHE
“My homeschooling put me on the dean’s list in college. But I didn’t know anything about life beyond academics. … My parents focused so much on academics, shunning extracurricular activities, that I had no idea how to do anything else.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, Colorado, mixed experience, testimonial, Texas
Jane Smith: “I am haunted by the question of what might have been different”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“Homeschooling students who, like me, are privileged to have the skills necessary to fill in the gaps in our education can often bounce back from sub-standard educations. But others, like my brothers, who lack these skills will forever pay the price. The costs of the lack of oversight are borne by the most vulnerable.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, mixed experience, Oklahoma, pennsylvania, testimonial
Jane Morgan: “I was the homeschooled kid who grew up to become a homeschool mom”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“If there had been more regulations on homeschooling in the states in which I lived I would have been more aware of my success or failure as my children’s primary educator. We are taught as homeschoolers to protect our privacy at all costs. But so much stress would have been alleviated with more oversight.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni parent testimonial, Kansas, Missouri, mixed experience, North Carolina, testimonial, Texas
Jennifer P.: “My parents broke the state’s homeschooling laws knowingly”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“Upon settling in Pennsylvania, which has regulations that are generally seen as “stringent,” my parents refused to report, having not reported previously. I met other homeschooling families who followed the laws and their children usually participated in a co-op or other activities with other homeschoolers. . . . I was not aware of any educational shortcoming in my friends—even the large families used evaluators and spent a lot of time DOING school.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, Maryland, mixed experience, New Jersey, New York, pennsylvania, testimonial
Caitlin T.: “In New Jersey, things fell apart”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“In New Jersey, things fell apart. Without oversight, there was no need to think about compiling a portfolio. Without state standards, there was no benchmark for my progress. We still tried to follow the Pennsylvania guidelines for high school (3 years of math, 3 of science, 4 of English, etc.), but no one was there to check up on us or offer help as I entered harder subjects.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni testimonial, mixed experience, New Jersey, pennsylvania, portfolios, testimonial
Jerusha Lofland: “Ignorance leaves people vulnerable”
Updated on May 16, 2016 by CRHE
“I support oversight of homeschooling because every child deserves a good education in all subjects. I received a great education in English grammar, and I could recite entire chapters from the Bible. But my parents gave up teaching me basic algebra, my textbooks viewed history through a primarily anti-Catholic lens, I was warned against studying the humanities, and I have spent a decade unlearning much of the “science” I was taught.”
Category: Testimonial Tags: alumni parent testimonial, educational neglect, Kansas, Michigan, mixed experience, testimonial