Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education

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31. I am an avid homeschool parent and I see potential negatives with homeschooling

Some people just shouldn't home school. We've seen some horror stories. I've seen one family who raises their daughters to be good wives and that's it. It's a disaster. You have to know your limitations as a home school parent. My wife primarily does the teaching, but can't read music, so I do the music stuff. I have horrible handwriting, so she teaches handwriting. You can go to outside sources (we have co-ops) to get specialized education in math, science, etc. My expertise is finance, so I'll eventually teach a course on personal financial management.

The big benefit of homeschooling to me is that I can teach my children to learn for the sake of learning. Most college students that I have in my classes learn for the purposes of getting a grade. They, and a lot of adults that I interact with, see education as a painful difficult experience and resist educating themselves.