Home education

[Chortlesauraus]

Inspired by another thread but......AIBU to think that home schooling is a bit weird and the people that go down that route can sometimes be a little strange themselves?

I can't even really put my finger on why I find it all so odd....but maybe I'm missing something that home schoolers can enlighten me about

I always get the sense that people who home school are cut from the same cloth as Steiner School enthusiasts.....but that's just me casting wild aspersions 😆

We looked at a Steiner school for my daughter but it was too far.

Have friends who have kids in the Steiner school and are totally normal. What’s normal OP? Curious.

Gotta deal with everyone else tho

Well, she would deal with me correcting the errors in that!

Also, she does deal with everyone else, and deal with them well. She is a popular member of the karate club, mixes with children and adults at training, people from all over the county. She is well thought of at Air Cadets. She goes to the gym, while most her age are at school and interacts appropriately with other members!

The only place she ever had problems was at school, so not unreasonable to think that school was the problem!

zzzzz and user I agree it is a very blinkered view, I was merely saying it as there is a misconception (as evident in this thread) that school = socialising so when you mention home schooling everyone starts flailing around with concern for our social skills.

YABU
We home ed & the home ed families are as mixed as the school families & the both families.

HE is the best choice for our family & I dont care if people think we're weird

Sorry, didn't catch the issue with Steiner education? What's actually wrong with it?

Home Ed - Given the choice, I think most parents prefer smaller class sizes, or at least small teaching groups to ensure their child gets individual learning support. But with current budget cuts to education, schools are under pressure to keep class sizes larger.

A great way to avoid this type of 'business' dilemma being scrambled up with the daily educational experience of children is to opt for home-education, which means bureaucracy-free individual support whenever a child needs it. It might seem a bit radical, but how do 'normal' parents avoid this problem?

@IBeLike Have you read much about Steiner education and the philosophies it's built upon? If not, worth a google and you'll get the gist

Yeah, thanks I know about Google. You seem to be avoiding answering the question from your point of view for some reason... ? What don't you like about Steiner ed?

I can't answer for the OP but we have a Steiner school literally up the road from us, 5 minute walk.

We know several children who have moved back to mainstream from Steiner through bulling issues.

We have considered it for our ASD son who is currently being homeschooled but it would not suit him through lack of structure to the time table. They are also not good with SEN , I know this from experience of other parents of SEN kids.

Also there is one teacher the whole way up the school, great if you like the teacher not so good if not.

@IBeLike I don't like Steiner because some of the ideas he had (100 years ago) were very strange eg. Every life you come back a lighter colour and skin colour is a hierarchy thing, he believed in fairy type things and he has a whole weird philosophy. You say you know what google is so you can put it to good use and see for yourself. Obviously it's different now but it's still based on weird shit. Also the no electronics in school think is stupid imo because we are living in a digital world. Democratic schools are definitely the way to go.

The principles behind Steiner are completely nutty, I especially like the ban on small children drawing straight lines...(on top of the racism and disabilism). I know three families who home school, two have children with mild special needs who's needs weren't being met emotionally by their schools and the other who doesn't really believe in formal education and therefore her children are not learning anything.

I think educating your children at home should be a right, but it should be monitored, as should all schools.

I'm not defending Steiner Schools, but I did find it worth querying if the OP had any knowledge to share about Steiner that could have been the foundation of her partial opinion of people who send their children to Steiner schools. Judging people in this way can be based either on knowledge and experience, or ignorance and fast judgement. It doesn't seem fair to allow what seems like a fairly shallow view on two whole groups of people to be unexamined. Personally, I'm not convinced about any single route of education, why limit a learning experience to one method? And if you reject a whole educational philosophy or method, then you restrict ideas that could be progressive.

I am a teacher and I would consider it, depending on the schools available. Huge class sizes, behaviour issues and a restricted curriculum? No thanks.