and is still working well, was a homeschooling cooperative. Besides socializing at church, these children need to be able to make friends and not be too isolated. Better save their souls than be able to teach them perfectly.įinally what is of dire importance is to keep in contact with other homeschooling families. Many of the children in public schools are way behind. Many of their children are not learning to read or write or do math at their public schools right now anyway. Although they are rightfully concerned about the responsibility and their lack of knowledge, this should not stop them from homeschooling. Many mothers are concerned about public schools and would like to homeschool their children, but are afraid to do it, because of all the responsibility and they feel that they are not educated or qualified enough to be able to teach their children. For this reason the Catholic homeschooling programs are the best option, as costly and difficult they may be. They also have Catholic themes in all other subjects as well. But in these Catholic courses, there are religion classes, always going deeper and better with each grade. Many families avoid Catholic homeschooling because the programs and books cost money and the parents have more of the responsibility to make sure their children are keeping up with the assigned school work. And in this system, there are no Catholic religion classes or Catholic material in the other areas of learning, like reading and history. But the text books are from the public school and they will soon have common core as part of the education. There is also a limited amount of supervision by the charter school staff, so that the busy mothers do not have as much to do.
Many orthodox people do Charter School homeschooling because it is free, the books are free and they also get money for extra-curriculum activities. 1917 Canon law had that all parishes were to have parochial schools. But even there, many do not teach Catholic teachings and you also have the huge added expense of tuition. Today, the morals, the immodest dressing, the homosexual agenda in and the common core curriculum in the public schools, makes Catholic homeschooling seem to be the only option, (other than a good Catholic school, which is very rare today).
They learn to play, but not to read, write or add. But that is if you will not allow them to waste their time on TV, Video games and computers. So what I am getting at is that children survive fine in chaotic homeschooling environments because they are basically smart.
I also remember that I learned mostly on my own working in the workbooks. I remember a lot of homemade flash cards with math and vocabulary on them. We older children helped the younger children do their reading and math. Life is just one big succession of interruptions. Nevertheless, the routine was pretty much always being disrupted, as many on you who are homeschooling now see happen all the time. We also traveled a great deal, (twice lived in Mexico building schools for the poor and another time in Fowler building a Catholic Church), so it helped that we were homeschooled. Since there were 17 of us children to start with, and my dad was working, my mother had to organize all the studying, (and most of the time it was very disorganized). From there I studied 2 years at Cabrillo College and graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa Ontario Canada. I then went to Catholic high school for 3 years and finished at the public high school. In order to not get in trouble in those days with the school district, since we were not in school, my mother would advertise as a private school and have other children come and study with us. Once she married my dad, she stayed at home and homeschooled us through grammar school, way before it was allowed or popular. Grade and that they would catch up very quickly when they are older.Ī few of the 17 Children, 2 more were adopted after I moved out. She also did not believe children were to start studying till they were in 1st. She strongly believed that each child learns differently and at a different pace. She also was trained in the Montessori school paradigm. My mother had her teachers credentials from Illinois, but only taught philosophy for a short time at Toronto University before she married my dad.