Homeschooling

Obama has not explicitly stated his position for or against homeschooling. However, his position may be inferred by his close ties to, and 100% approval rating from, the NEA (National Education Association), as well as the NEA's public endorsement of Obama's educational reform proposals.

NEA official position on homeschooling (http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/a-response-to-the-neas-2007-2008-homeschooling-resolution):

"The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements, including the taking and passing of assessments to ensure adequate academic progress. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools. The Association further believes that local public school systems should have the authority to determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting."

YouTube: Obama Accepts NEA Endorsement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKbB4HO6sk

Newsbusters.org

Newsweek's Wolffe: Obama a 'Centrist' [rebuttal]

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/07/31/newsweeks-wolffe-obama-centrist

Excerpt: [Obama's interest group ratings] 100% from the NEA

Wall Street Journal Article:

NEA Applauds Sen. Obama's Comprehensive Approach to Education Reform

Full article: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nea-applauds-sen-obamas-comprehensive/story.aspx?guid={711CBD36-F832-412D-8905-8EA641F5DCB2}&dist=hppr

Excerpts:

"Sen. Obama gets it," said Dennis Van Roekel, president of NEA. "He knows that reform cannot take place overnight or by using quick fixes. Obama wants to invest in comprehensive strategies, both immediate and long-term, which will pay dividends for our children, our economy and our country."

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No. Your parents are legally responsible for your education until you are 18. This means that if they say they are 'homeschooling' you, then they are required to provide you with a suitable teacher (either themselves or another adult) you cannot homeschool yourself, although you can follow a homeschool program or curriculum which was provided by your parents by yourself.

Many parents and guardians have made the wise choice to teach their children at home. They have developed a quality curriculum that ensures that their children are mastering the basic skills needed to succeed when they enter college and obtain employment. Due to the vast amount of educational resources available online, home school parents can find affordable or free school supplies to help students excel.

There are many home school online resources to choose from. Parents can search for English, grammar and math textbooks online. Publishers will send books by mail or parents can print eBooks. There are textbooks available for every grade level. Parents should also be able to obtain a teachers manual with their books. Prices vary among publishers.

Handouts are also available to download and print from the computer. There are math handouts which are comprised of basic arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry and more. Many of the handouts are accompanied by an answer key for teachers. English handouts are also available. They are comprised of capitalization, subject and verb agreement, punctuation rules and other topics. These handouts are also accompanied by an answer key for teachers to use to correct student’s work. Many providers of these handouts offer them for free. There are some website owners who charge a small fee for use of their handouts.

Professional development courses are also available for home school teachers on the internet. They are offered for free or for a nominal fee. Participants will learn teaching strategies for teaching reading, math, and grammar. Additionally, these home school online courses can teach parents how to deal with behavioral problems, how to teach effective study habits and how to encourage a child to learn. There are a myriad of topics to choose from. Home school parents should simply keyword the topics they are interested in followed by the words courses to obtain a list of classes.

Pencils, pens, paper, paper clips, staples, glue and other supplies can be purchased online. If needed, they can be purchased in bulk. There are many discount stores online that home school professionals can take advantage of. Parents should take the time to compare prices before purchasing.

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Homeschooling is becoming a more popular choice for parents as concerns about negative influences in a school environment, such as peer pressure, drugs and violence, escalate. Another reason homeschooling in popular is the parents wish to include religious content into the curriculum.

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No he was not home schooled because it's just boring and you just do boring stuff just like regular school days.

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You begin first class the year you turn 7, but the year before that the children begin "pre-school", which is something between kindergarten and the actual school. The Swedish school is compulsory until 9 grade!

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Alan Moses provided this answer on the Home Education Mailing List:

As I understand the way the Growing Without Schooling crowd uses the terms, unschooling refers more to the process of removing your child from school and overcoming the negative effects of the compulsory education process; homeschooling is the more general term referring to home-based learning. I'd love to come up with a better term than homeschooling, due to the implication that the child is spending all their time at home (see my comments on "socialization"); but it's the best I've seen so far.

Heather Millen added:

The process explained [above] could actually be considered "de-schooling" rather than unschooling. Unschooling is child-led learning in a home environment rather than duplicating school and its curriculums at home. Most unschoolers don't follow lesson plans, or even have "school learning" time structured into their day. Subjects are covered when the child's interest dictates not when the "educational experts" say its time for every child to know that subject.

David Mankins added:

Unschooling, for this unschooler, is based in the beliefs that children:

are incredible learning machines, as shown by their ability to learn language and to function in society with little or no explicit instruction

are insatiably curious about the adult world,

and are driven to learn by these features, and sometimes children learn *despite* our attempts to teach them!

Unschoolers also believe, or at least this unschooler believes, that *imposing* an agenda on a child is more counter-productive than helpful, because it doesn't take the child seriously.

I think a lot of this can be justified by reflecting on one's own learning experiences. Nobody makes me learn new things, I just do because learning is fun, or because I want to know about this subject for my own purposes (even if those purposes are as prosaic as justifying my paycheck). The same is true for children.

I think it is also motivated by a certain kind of respect for the rights of children. *I* don't want to be told what or when to study, what right have I to tell another what to do and when?

Unschooling requires a lot of faith in your child, that they will learn the things that are important for them to know despite not being "forced" to, that their seemingly patternless play is experimentation that will pay off in insight, and that they will stick to a subject through the "hard parts". Again, reflecting on one's own experience can help solidify this faith, as can reflecting on the behavior of one's own children.

[The answer above is based on a homeschooling FAQ originally edited in 1994 by Dave Mankins for the Home Education Mailing List.]

To me, "unschooling" simply means when a parent says they are homeschooling, but does not take the time, nor make the effort to do it correctly, and hinders their child's education.

That is not true!

I was homeschooled my whole life, and never fell behind. Infact, I knew alot more then all the kids in public school. I was unschooled, which doesn't mean I never did a work sheet, it just means that I didn't just do work sheets. Unschooling is alot more hands-on, instead of learning how yeast raises in a book, you would do an experement with yeast, and watch it raise. People always act like homeschooled kids are these weird animals that know one knows anything about, but their just like everyone else. People like you think that a child belongs in school, where they are all tought to be perfect at every subject. Which is why almost every child hates school. People are forcing them to be like everybody else. Every child learns differently, one kid may be great at math but horrible at history, another kid may be perfect at spelling, but hate science. It just depends on the kid. All the kids in school are all in a class with a bunch of other kids their age, with all different questions and all different problems, and only one teacher to answer them all. The child then doesn't get enough one on one time with the teacher, then making the subject harder to learn. I remember when I was little having total conversations with adults, who were about three times as old as me. I liked talking to adults more the I liked talking to kids, and I was one. The adults had more interesting things to talk about then the kids did, plus the kids never understood what I was talking about anyway.

Lots of times when a parent unschools their child it is for a reason, not because they don't feel like doing anything. If they wanted to do that, they would just put them in school. Where the teacher raises your child for you.

um, you realize that the average IQ score is the same regardless of age right? the test was made so that an average 18, 19, or whatever age person would score a hundred. the average for a 5 year old would be 100, and the score would still be 100 for a 90 year old.

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It all depends on your budget. Now that you can do almost anything on the internet, you can actually homeschool for as little as it costs to run your computer on the internet, printer ink, paper, and research hours to create your own curriculum. It can also be as expensive as you want it to be if you buy all teacher's guides (not always necessary), student books and optional supplies. There are options for correspondence schools that test and grade your child and do all the record keeping for you. These can be quite expensive. You can find some at less of an expense if you research different ones on the internet. Also available are video and satellite schools. These also tend to be more expensive. You can also do combinations of these different styles. Many do a notebooking method, where the student gleans information from a variety of sources and then creates a notebook utilizing this information Others do unit studies, combining all classes into units focusing on one main topic. The best way to decide is to do a search on homeschooling or sign up on a few yahoo homeschooling groups and discuss the costs with other homeschooling parents. There is a wealth of information to be gleaned from these groups. I hope this helped you out a little.

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There are about 22.2967296 square meters in a 20 by 12 foot area. (Round this off as you see fit.) The 20 x 12 square foot area = 240 square feet, and there are 10.7639104 square feet in a square meter. Divide the square feet in a square meter into the number of square feet to get your answer in square meters. A calculator will allow you to make any conversions, and if you open a Google window on your computer and put "240 sq ft to sq meters" as a search argument, you'll get your answer immediately.