gilly know very few H.ed parents who "teach" their children
they facilitate learning, something completely different.
Ok fine, but how will her child learn to spell if she can't?
A reason some choose to H.ed in the first place and some parents learn alongside their child.
That's interesting. So they'd be say, learning to spell, as their child is? I like the idea upthread of the different home ed-ers teaching (in it's broadest sense) the subject area they were most knowledgeable about.
Finally, I've seen some pretty poor spelling from qualified teachers in school
and quite often I've seen primary teachers with Pottery as their degree. This obviously puts "needs to be qualified in core subjects" to rest.
No, actually it makes it really worrying that teachers can't spell either. Or at least spell well enough for the ability level they are teaching. I'm unsure how they qualify in the basic subjects tbh.
ginger Should we be demanding that schools get rid of any teachers that don't have perfect spelling?
No, but they need good enough spelling, surely? Otherwise how on earth do they teach it? If there are ways, then great - hopefully the teacher can learn too.
I find home educating very interesting, as the few people I know who were home educated obviously really benefitted from it. They are the type of people who follow their own path but are really confident with it. Whereas their (apparent) equivalents who went to state schools, and didn't follow the mainstream, are lacking in confidence due to not fitting in, bullying etc. Also one of my parents was a primary school teacher and did more fun/not obviously learning type stuff with us outside school, which helped one sibling (in hindsight, likely undiagnosed SEN) immensely - it just wouldn't have happened in school.
But this OP was about a particular situation, not slating home ed altogether!