I've been getting calls from a person who I suspect wants me to
homeschool their kid. Since we are of close relation, that wouldn't be a
problem except that since they live far away, so homeschooling their
kid would involve moving their kid into my home. Don't get me wrong, I
want to help, but I don't want to raise any more kids. I am looking
forward to my last year as an active homeschooling parent and don't
really want to tack on a few more years as mommy to a teenager.
I get the sense that they feel homeschooling would be
impossible for them without proper training, special permission and
guidance from the school district, but that is not going to happen...
and it doesn't have to. If homeschoolers can teach their own ADHD,
developmentally delayed, and Autistic children successfully without a special education degree, you can certainly homeschool a child - your perfectly normal child
without going to school for it.
What I do want to do is enable them to homeschool their own child.
After all, it is called HOMEschooling. I can provide curriculum
suggestions and even grading and putting together the portfolio and
because we are that close... I wouldn't even charge them. All they
would have to do is mind the child. Still they appear to be very
hesitant.
Now, I do know some people, many other people, who ended up
getting teaching certification as they felt it would help them with
homeschooling. The reasons vary from being able to get private school
accreditation and write an accredited diploma, or to start a business
where they administered standardized testing and performed other
services for homeschoolers. There's nothing wrong it that. Everyone
has to do what is best for them.
I recently complained about a company offering homeschool certification,
trying to instill fear and gain a foothold into the homeschool market.
If a homeschooling parent is going to get any kind of certification, it
should probably be teacher certification which will allow them to
perform certain certain educational services to other homeschoolers or
to loosen restrictions on your own homeschool. As homeschoolers, of
course, it would make sense to look for an online teaching certification program to learn in the same style as many of us are teaching our own kids.
As
I move out of the role of homeschooling parent, and into the role of
homeschool consultant, I, myself am pondering whether or not any of
these certifications would help me. I still don't feel that
homeschoolers need any certifications at all to homeschool their own
children, but once you move into working with other children and
homeschooling families, a few credentials probably wouldn't hurt.
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When people need certification to have children, then I will think about certification to homeschool my own. It's just not necessary.... having it mandated would also make homeschooling cost prohibitive and elitist. Since uneducated parents are proven to have the same results homeschooling as educated parents that point is moot. I only recommend certification for people planning to teach others children as a business.
A "hometutoring" business is a great idea and credentials are a great way to show (hopefully) that you won't be playing video games all day with the kids and calling it math.
Here's a deeper question and I hope you don't take it wrong. WHAT will it take for some of these parents to realize they can do this?
If you can make a business doing that, somehow getting these parents to know they are ok people and can do this? That would be better than doing the homeschooling yourself, you think?
I think they just need support. If schools everywhere open that give out homeschool parent certifications then before long people would be required to get them... a bit of a sticky wicket don't you think.
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