Friday, 15 May 2020

You'd be crazy not to try home schooling young kids. Lessons from the lockdown.

Sam Sorbo's opening point in Jan Jekielek's interview is, "Don't feel inadequate".
If you made it through high school you can surely impart something to a third grader. Or if you think your own education was wasted, why would you send your youngster where you went?

The persuasive and beautiful author's words, transcribed from the American Thought Leaders video,  2:20 to 3:25
I immediately began launching a series of videos that I call the Accidental Homeschooler to encourage parents because a lot of parents feel completely inadequate. They’re just not up to the task. And that’s sad for me. I don’t think that that should be the case. And the more that I thought about it the more I realized that it is the case that we feel inadequate because that is the way we have been educated to feel. And in fact I would say that we haven’t so much been educated as we’ve been schooled. So you know a parent says to me, “Oh I can’t do it, I can’t home school because, you know, I just don’t even know how”. And I say to them, “You went through high school, right?” “Yeah, I’ve gone through high school”. “And yet you feel unqualified to teach a third grader? I mean you must then question your education. How effective is your education if you’re not able to impart the things that you learned? And then, if in fact you say, No my education was awful, why would you consign your child to the same system that arguably is worse today than when you went to school?
She realized that when she was helping her kid with homework at the end of the day when everybody was tired, she was doing homeschooling.

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