Home Schooling

[Wertbag]

I have a question regarding home schooling that I'm looking to hear some views on.  Here in New Zealand home schooling is practiced by a very small group.  Usually the reason is frustration at the public schools and the feeling that they can educate their kids better (more one on one education, teaching at the speed the child learns, teaching in the method they most respond to, focus on the subjects that they select for their career path etc).  I had the exact same idea, strongly reinforced by my own dislike of the public system, but here at least you must have a government accepted qualification in education to be allowed to home school and between that and finances the public system is the best option for most people.

 

An American friend has said, at least in his area, that home schooling seems a lot more common and is almost always driven by Christians not wanting their children to mix with those sinners in the public system.  I found a website claiming "thirty-nine states allow any parent to homeschool regardless of their educational background".  Is this a big problem?  Is it a growing problem?

People can only teach what they understand, so poorly educated people teach their children poorly.

Do the rest of the country look down on home schooled kids?  Would the lack of public recognised testing prove a hindrance to finding work? 

 

 

[Wertbag]

Thanks for that.  Sounds much like it is here with home schooling being a better way to educate.  Was there any requirement in your state to have a formal education qualification?