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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
What am I basing that on? Maybe the fact that when I graduated with my B.A. in English I had TWICE as many English courses under my belt than someone "certified" to teach. Maybe on the fact that while I am considered unfit to teach public school, I got to spend 13 years flunking graduates of public school in college. (I can't tell you how many of them couldn't even write a decent paragraph, had no idea what subject/verb agreement was, or a thesis)Or perhaps the 7 years I spent teaching AP English to private school students who went on to become National Merit Scholars, Scholastic Writing Award winners, and Academic team state champions, not to mention the litany of top-ranked schools they went on to attend. Maybe my experience with the education majors who took a few English classes with me as I went for my graduate degree - and who complained about having to write papers every week, and were amazed that we had to write a thesis and have a comprehensive examination - neither of which they were required to do.
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So in other words, even though you don't have a high school teaching cert, you were a college professor? In other words, you have TAUGHT others and know how to do it. That's a little different.
The homeschooling parents that I (and most other people) am not cool with are the ones who barely got through HS themselves and have no ability to educate. Just because you know what to do, doesn't mean you can teach others to do it.
I wish that the homeschooling parents who ARE doing it right would crack down on the ones who are doing it wrong. It might have more weight coming from them.
The thing I like least about homeschooling (and school choice in general) is that it seems to be teaching our children that if something doesn't work, just walk away from it - don't try to fix it.