First,due to a shortage of credentialled teachers, hundreds of teachers in California are teaching with emergency credentials. That is, they have passed a test (the California Basic Educational Skills Test CBEST) but do not have a teaching credential.
So apparently you can teach in the California public schools without being properly credentialed, but you can't homeschool.
Read Lois Kazakoff: Should homeschool teachers have credentials? and feel free to leave a comment.
I don't even know why I bother reading comments after articles about homeschooling. It's always the same arguments made, people act like Chicken Little when it comes to homeschooling sometimes.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, homeschooling seems to be such a small segment of school age kids. I don't understand the fuss. I would be there are more kids falling through the cracks at underfunded or neglected schools daily than there are homeschooled kids. Fuss about that or unequal distribution of cash to schools. That would help more kids, I think.
I could be wrong though. :)
Even where I live, where sadly there's no shortage of problems with our public schools, some people are so, "OMG homeschooling! The kids will be social misfits who won't be able to read or hold a job. I know this because my neighbor homeschools and her kids are stupid and awful. Her 8 year old can barely read."
Yeesh, I don't form my opinion of the schools here based on the 4 functionally illiterate cashiers at the Dairy Queen who graduated from one of the local high schools.
"I don't form my opinion of the schools here based on the 4 functionally illiterate cashiers at the Dairy Queen who graduated from one of the local high schools."
ReplyDeleteLOL, what always amazes me are the people that bash homeschooling, call homeschoolers every name in the book then say "That homeschoolers are wrong to criticize the public schools, mention the public school students that are failing, or the public school teachers who abuse their students" How dare we attack their sacred cow.
I've noticed that too. I don't get it. It's as if just saying that there are problems in the schools or that I have issues with current policies is so wrong, but calling homeschoolers "social retards" or "fundy losers" is a perfectly acceptable argument as to why homeschooling is bad. Gotcha!
ReplyDeleteRight, and if someone dare suggests there is a problem with the public schools or the school system, you are a lazy, selfish, elitist twit for not volunteering and putting all the energy, time, and money you devote to homeschooling to work in your public school, so you can effect change. While your child attends and learns how to navigate the "real world."
So in the real world no one ever starts a new company/non profit/church/political party etc. if they are unhappy with the current options?
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI have to remember this
"So in the real world no one ever starts a new company/non profit/church/political party etc. if they are unhappy with the current options?" for the next time I get told......... you homeschoolers need to learn to deal with the real world.
Although it seems that most of the rabid public school champions are pretty irrational, so I am not sure why I try to engage them in a rational discussion.
Their arguments seem to consist of
1.) I can demean homeschooling all I want, say nasty things about homeschoolers but you aren't allowed to point out any problems with public schools or say anything nasty about public schoolers.
2.) I will refuse to acknowledge any studies supporting homeschooling because they are obviously bias (this also includes ACT scores because how can you prove the student was really homeschooled just because he/she told the ACT they were).
3,) The fact that colleges actively recruit homeschoolers is beside the point. They just want your money.
and of course there is the whole BS about socialization, and we owe it to society to support the public schools.