JP> -=> Ruth Leblanc was yaking to James Prior all about Re: HOME SCHOOLING 

Then James Prior decided to "attack."
JP>also realize that one or two "parent-teachers" cannot teach a child all 
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JP>is to learn if they are to have any hope of succeeding in our society.
Since when did we (or anyone who is homeschooling) say that
homeschooling involved only getting the knowledge from two
parent-teachers and no more???
I think you need to re-educate yourself on homeschooling! In this day
and age, many parents are using video programs, where other teacher are
actually on a video showing their kids what to do...in another instance,
computers are used as the core of the curriculum, complete with CD's,
encyclopedias, etc. In other instances, parents swap off kids and have
one teach science and history and the other teach English and reading,
etc....There are many, many ways to homeschool.
In our area, one lady (a professional, accredited, former public school
teacher) is "homeschooling" her own daughter plus three others on the
same grade level. In essence, she has created her own private school in
her garage! It looks like a miniature classroom and she has been very,
very successful in getting the children to be educated well...reading
well by the end of the first grade...far better than our public school
system!  By bringing her own daughter into her own home, did she become
some "dunce" who couldn't teach or successfully communicate? I doubt it!
She was doing the exact same thing as she had done in previous years,
only now in her garage and with only four students instead of 30, and
with remarkable success!
What drove her to do it? Why, her love and concern for her OWN
DAUGHTER....(Which, we all know that a parent's love for her own
children is much stronger than for those of another's!)
JP>I wonder how much education is required to become a "Homeschooler"?
Thankfully, not much....because what with everything that is available
to me as a parent, I can get all the help that I conceivably
need...textbooks, teacher's guides, etc., are all available to me, and I
can do every bit as good a job as the public school!
BTW, Ruth LeBlanc was a wonderful, terrific encouragement to me this
past year as she helped me deal with my daughter, who had a rough time
trying to learn to read! I seriously doubt that throwing her in with 29
other kids would have done anything but enabled her to "fall through the
cracks" and forced her to repeat first grade. Instead, with some of
Ruth's advice, as well as some wonderful counsel from my curriculum's
author (Bob Jones University Press), I was able to use the summer to
help her so she is almost where a "normal" second grader should be...and
is probably far ahead of a public school second grader should be....even
with all their "fancy, accredited professionals!"
Rachael Woodard
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