Great comparison of public schooling (in general) vs home schooling methods by Ginny Seyfert, a home schooling mother and columnist: "We now have over thirty years of research and experience proving that home education is the best method for virtually every child. This success is most likely due to how we differentiate our home school from the public models. Public schools teach children to read using a whole word method; we use phonics. They use constructivist math forcing children to develop their own problem-solving strategies; we teach them how to solve the problems by direct instruction. Public school children read fiction chosen to reinforce particular values such as ethnic diversity or feminism; we choose books that are proven classics of juvenile literature. They allow creative spelling and grammar and believe that correcting compositions stifles imagination; we insist on learning and using rules of rhetoric. The list goes on and on."
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:00:33 +0000
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