Why People Don’t Homeschool

A Romanian blogger detailed recently how she decided to enroll her child in fifth grade this year, after looking at three possibilities: private school, middle school attached to a high school (which implies the teachers would be infinitely better than in a regular ol’ middle school, since they are qualified to teach secondary education), or a five-day homeschool co-op (if you will, a homeschool school where all the teachers are parents who hold university degrees in their subject).

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The blog post is titled, “Why We Feel Threatened by Homeschooling” and yes, it is in Romanian. The link above will take you there if you can read that language. Now homeschooling is not exactly legal in Romania, but it can be done if one enrolls in a school abroad, in the UK or the US for instance. In that case, it is called correspondence school and should you get inquiries from the authorities you will be left alone.

She ended up choosing a fourth possibility: staying within the same K-8 school her daughter has attended so far. Her post is long, but in short she said, “I did not have the courage to homeschool. I did not have the courage to assume the responsibility of my child’s education. It’s easier to have somebody else to blame if something goes wrong.”

She was perfectly honest about this. She admires her friends who homeschool, but she says she prefers to leave the responsibility in somebody else’s lap. Then, she said, it will be easier to blame the classmates or the teacher or the principal or the government for whatever goes wrong in her child’s education.

There you have it, my friends, straight from the heart of a very honest person. Most people do not homeschool because they would rather blame somebody else than themselves if something should go wrong.

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3 thoughts on “Why People Don’t Homeschool

  1. I think that their reason is really rooted in a lack of confidence in their own abilities or unwillingness to seek out and secure a good education for their child. These days we have the Internet – so free resources, classes, documentaries, etc. are plenty, even for those who might not have the funds or a large in-person community to tap into, but no matter what, it takes effort to homeschool…dedication…work… cobbling together various resources to form a relatively complete, and at minimum, satisfactory education for your child….and some parents are not willing or able to make the sacrifices required to take on that job. Honestly, if this is their thinking/view/attitude… maybe it’s for the best?

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