Last week, I looked at entry about homeschooling over on Wikibooks. It was not anything terribly new, with the same stereotypes propogated without anything to really back them up. I was thinking about posting on it, but Alasandra already did a very nice job of that.
Ironically, so did Kelley McBride of the Green Bay Press Gazette in her article, Students fight myths about homeschooling. It is even about us right wing fundamentalists who dared pull our kids at least in part for religious reasons and the opportunity to teach our children our “narrow” views. But somehow, we don’t come across that way at all. Nice job, Kelley. And nice conclusion:
“Education really is being able to handle the situations in the world and knowing how to properly respond, and just being able to live a good life,” Lawyer said. “Homeschooling focuses on education as…teaching them how to live life.”
A positive article on homeschooling is always appreciated now and again, especially when it is not trying to divide the homeschooling community by confirming some stereotypes but pointing out that not all homeschoolers are “like that.” Of course we are not all “like that,” but most people would be surprised how not-like-that even most conservative Christian homeschoolers are.
Hey, the comment by the public school teacher is even supportive of homeschooling.
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I am amazed how diverse the homeschooling community is, Dana. It delights me. I feared and held off for so long because of all the stereotypes I had heard about and envisioned after for so long having had no stereotypes in my head at all…the diversity I have come across in these blogs and messageboards and the books I have reads is just so inspiring and encouraging, and I was able to have a wonderful conversation about it this weekend with my father when that dreaded “S” topic came up LOL
It is hard. Ask me to discuss what life was like in the USSR and you will likely get something that is a mix of stereotypes and reality. Because I wasn’t there and only know what I’ve been taught. Most people do not know that much about homeschooling. I just wish they realized they didn’t know and left it at that.
What really bothers me, however, is when there is some sort of biased article and I read responses from the homeschooling community such as, “Yes, but that is religious homeschoolers. We are not all like that.” or “Those are unschoolers…”
There are people “like that” for most stereotypes. But they are the extreme and not the norm. There are people “like that” in the public schools. But it isn’t the norm.
Dana,
Wow! Great article! Thanks for posting the link - living in Colorado I don’t generally follow the news in Wisconsin. It’s nice to find more journalists taking a positive view of homeschooling, isn’t it?