Home Schooling is the wave of the future; this is how America will survive or fail.
To understand how important homeschooling your child is to you, just look at the way children are taught today. For the purposes of this article, I will choose one and only one item. Trust me, there are dozens of articles like this. The element I will discuss is how cheap her son’s labor is and how this causes her son to view her labor, and therefore himself, as unimportant.
Your child is assigned a task. Maybe it’s to write a report, maybe it’s a math page. Halfway through the task the bell rings and the child begins to play.
Yes, made to go play. The intention here is not to complete the job, but to command the child and make him amenable to social control and behavior modification.
If you were at work, had important work to do, would your boss make you go play? And, what is more important, would you let yourself be done to go play? Negative. You’d put your nose to the grindstone and put in the work for one simple reason: it’s important.
But day after day his son is interrupted, forced to be ‘flip’, and this tells him that work isn’t important.
And, most interestingly, the teacher says that it is important.
So what is the solution? Well, here is an interesting alternative. You put work before your child and say, ‘You can take a lunch break if you want, but you can’t play until you’re done.
Now, how many of us, if the boss said, “You can work until five, but if the work is done early, you can finish the day off,” would work to the bone?
Each one of us. Work suddenly becomes more important and our lives literally depend on it.
When I did this at my school, the result was instant. Kids ignored breaks, told other kids to shut up, and became maniacs about work.
Yes, sometimes I had to check the work, at least at first, to make sure it wasn’t sloppy. But doing this sometimes throughout the day avoids any nasty confrontation with a big check at the end.
Yeah, sometimes they didn’t do their school work and I took pity on them and let them go. But if you plan the exercise (with your input is helpful), then you can usually come up with a goal that will give them an extra hour of play and give you an extra hour of work.
Most importantly, through this type of homeschooling approach, your child will develop a sense of self-worth and a valuable work ethic.