Homeschooling doesn't offer enough structure!

They say that homeschooling does not allow enough structure for our children.
Our children will never be able to follow rules as adults.
Our children will never be able to complete anything.

If you look at it from another viewpoint, you will see that while it may offer less structure than putting your child in an institutionalized school, ( standing in line, raising hand to potty, no speaking at lunch) it also offers alot of freedom which can actually be more condusive to learning, and learning happily.

For example, my son takes academic classes on Thursday at a homeschool "school". One girl showed up yesterday shoeless. She got in the car without shoes on and forgot to even grab them at all. This is pretty typical for homeschool kids, because we are always having to drive a kids somewhere and the other kids, often go for the ride bringing along nothing but a book to read and not wearing shoues if they are not getting out of the car.

Had this happened in an institutionalized school, this 12 year old girl would have been humiliated and ridiculed by her classmates, sent home to get shoes, and missed her first class for which she may have been punished with detention or somthing of the like. Instead... she was just sent to class. The other kids thought it was funny, but not worthy of teasing. They just asked why she had no shoes on, accepted her answer with a smile and went to work. Her dad dropped off her shoes during second period.

So homeschoolers may not have enough structure to make school advocates happy, but this "lack" of structure can be very freeing for our children.

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