The Right of Education – OSV Article, Part 2
By: Christine AlcottThis blog is the second in response to the Our Sunday Visitor’s article on homeschooling vs Catholic School education . The first of my blogs focused on the sorry response of the Bishop of Austin, Tx to a local homeschool group. This blog will take on the opinion (from the article) of Father Peter M.J. Stravinskas, who runs the Catholic Education Foundation.
Fr. Stravinskas thoughts are very typical of those who are, not clueless about homeschooling, but anti-homeschooling . In a nutshell, Fr. Stravinskas claimed:
Catechesis is mainly the job of the pastors, then the Church as a whole, with the parents coming in somewhere after all these others. Families who homeschool at least implicitly teach their children that priests cannot be trusted to hand on the faith. Homeschooling leads to a decline in religious vocations. It is unhealthy for mothers to spend 24 hours a day with their children. Parents cannot possibly teach their children all they need to know. Homeschoolers set themselves apart as an “elite” group within the Church, causing division.Wow! Where to start! I am going to jump around a bit, so hang on!
You Might Be Crazy If…. Okay, so the days where I spend all morning arguing with the 13-yr-old who cannot believe he has to (gasp!) do something so cruel as write a paper or clean a room, simultaneously potty-train a toddler while teaching middle school Latin, or on the days they all seem to have brain farts at the same time, then yes, I can see that it may be psychologically unhealthy for me to be with my children all day, every day. I do not know of one homeschooling parent that is the sole teacher of their children. For starters, my children attend, or have attended, on-line classes, community classes, science workshops, homeschooling coops, seminars, discussions, and PE. Do I know Latin? Nope. So, how do I teach it? Through the experts who do know Latin, and how to teach it. The boys use their DVD’s every day, and would tell you that Ms. Leigh or Mr. Moore is their teacher – Mom just helps out!
Even without these resources, parents are never the sole teachers of their children. Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Cicero, and a host of other authors have a lot to share. All I do is guide the reading a bit, provide some discussion, and listen to the results.
More specifically, Fr. Stravinskas was speaking about high school education. It is a valid question – how can the average homeschooling parent teach high school subjects with the needed depth? The answer is – we don’t! I would be the first to tell you that I do not excel in math or science. If I tried to teach my children all about chemistry, for example, it would be a very, very short class!
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We go to bed separately, and we have free hours. The kids play, I…do whatever it is I do, and we spend some healthy time on our own. They do have friends, hobbies, and toys. In fact, the label “homeschooler” can be mis-leading. With all the homeschool
Most of that time we've been enrolled in one or another of the excellent parent partnership programs available to Seattle-area homeschoolers, and they spent last year at Bellevue's homeschooling partnership program, Kelsey Creek.
Getting out of that school requires their family to move to another district, make enough money to send them to a private school or alternative public school (if allowed), or have enough free time and ability to homeschool them.
Or, if you're homeschooling, how would you teach and learn without our library. * Starting a new business or looking for citizenship and a new home in America. * Parents assisting their children with homework or school projects.
We can open up our own independent schools, our own homeschooling cooperatives, our own church schools even. Look at all these pastors using tithes to buy themselves Mercedes and BMWs, when they could be opening up a school instead!
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Use the public school’s curriculum. If your child is enrolled in the system, they will provide books. You may have to buy the teacher’s guides, but who knows, they may provide those too. I had a teacher assigned to my daughter when I home schooled. I could bring her work in quarterly. The teacher would then just verify that she was up to par with the rest of her class. She even gruduated with her class.
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