10-13-2009, 07:59 AM
It is totally unfair to push parents towards home schooling. My son is a single parent now and his brother is having to forego work in order to be there on the furlough days because there's no day care. My son who is a parent has built up a great reputation at his job for being reliable, and now due to this furlough thing he could lose his job because it's so hard to juggle the schedule. In order to get through this week, and so family members could keep major commitments, my grandson had to be with me for four nights. While that is fine with me, he had to miss seeing his only parent during that time because we live on opposite sides of the island, which is bad for my grandson.
Meanwhile my older son is broke, can't take on jobs, and his car is falling apart. All because there is not enough coverage between school and day care for a parent to hold a full time job. Even two parent families may well need to have both parents working. Homeschooling is all very well for families who can make ends meet.
On top of that, there are so many poorly educated parents on the island, who wants their children to be home schooled? We should be aiming for the next generation to get a better education. I don't think that many parents are capable of providing an education for their children. My own parents would have been capable (my dad gave me lots of help with math and chemistry, for example), but I would have hated being home with my mom all day. I was already enough of a bookworm. I needed the socialization opportunities that I got at school.
Meanwhile my older son is broke, can't take on jobs, and his car is falling apart. All because there is not enough coverage between school and day care for a parent to hold a full time job. Even two parent families may well need to have both parents working. Homeschooling is all very well for families who can make ends meet.
On top of that, there are so many poorly educated parents on the island, who wants their children to be home schooled? We should be aiming for the next generation to get a better education. I don't think that many parents are capable of providing an education for their children. My own parents would have been capable (my dad gave me lots of help with math and chemistry, for example), but I would have hated being home with my mom all day. I was already enough of a bookworm. I needed the socialization opportunities that I got at school.