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The Carnival of Home-Schooling
The second most-common reservation people seem to have about home-schooling their kids (after socialization) is their fear that they would mess up. In responding to their doubts, the first thing I always point out is that it would be hard to do a worse job than their children’s school - and they immediately see the wisdom of this, no problem.
The second thing I point out is what a wealth of resources are now available for home-schoolers, starting with local support groups. And then there’s the Net, where the problem is more information overload than the reverse. Just to get you started, here’s one portal to the vast home-school information network. This particular posting is ostensibly for the purpose of listing ten excellent family movies but, as usual, the posting is just a vehicle for providing links to endless other resources.
Home-schooling? I don’t know.
Let’s say that you can afford to do it and that’s not an issue.
Yes, maybe it is hard to do a worse job than the children’s school.
But ... let’s be careful about making a distinction between un-schooling and home schooling.
I do not believe in un-schooling because I think it is essentially the same constructivist approach the schools take done at home.
Secondly, .. as good as some parents no doubt are they would not be as good as a traditionally trained teacher with years of experience. Well, since very few such teachears are still around, maybe it’s a moot point.