Oh, you don't think I have some know how? World experience? capable of successfully raising two youngings? You would be incorrect my man. I put the bread on the table as well.
20 years of heaven or hell, depending on your perspective.
I'm not saying you don't know how to do things, but the way I understood these
No, 8 year olds deserve to be left alone, except for what their parents decide of course.
Of course. You are the one that forced the kid to attend.
Of course I can, but I think of a responsible people. I will never be down with your 'village' approach.
Education is a great thing, if it is educating. I firmly believe that some of you are trying to make up for your own short comings through our children. I do not like that because they know how to get on and they will, just fine without all your meddling.
It is my opinion, I happen to be correct btw. You will die before they do.
and previous posts you do not think the education system is necessary and tax dollars should be spent elsewhere or not collected at all. So if you'll just bear with me for a bit on this thought of school is an unnecessary spend of tax dollars and I'll compare the amount of time a parent would have to teach a child everything they need to know compared to a school.
So a whole week contains 168 hours
The world standard for sleeping time is 8 hours/night, so that means 56 of those hours are gone.
I'll be generous and say the average person works 40 hours per week, even though many work well over that.
So 96 hours are already gone out of 168 leaving the average person with 72 hours to teach their child
But wait, everyone needs to get out of bed and ready for work, I'll assume 1 hr morning routine, 5 more hours gone.
No one can live without eating, so we'll say 30 minute breakfast and 1.5 hours for dinner all prep time included.
so 15 hours just went out the window, now there's 58 hours teaching time.
Can't forget the commute, can we? Google quotes this at 25.4 minutes, but we have to go both ways, 4.25 hrs/week
Have to shop for food too, probably about an hour a week.
Now we have just 53.75 hours in our week
Oh right, we're so conservative that we don't pay tax for school, off to Sunday church we go.
So, 52.75 hours in a week leftover in this bare minimum of a life to teach our kids every single thing they need to know.
The average school week for grades 1 to 4 in America is quoted as 33 hours by the NCES for 2007/08 year. This doesn't account for time spent on homework outside of classes. The statistics were taken on 4 core subjects and in order were English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science.
So our average American parent is down to 19.75 hours per week to teach their child everything else they need to know, but wait there's more. In 2007 the average number of children in an American family was (rounded off) 3. So we've taught one child their 33 hours and can get in approximately 60% of the second child's education before parent has run completely out of time in their week.
I can hear you now, what about the second parent, indeed what about the second parent? A quick Google search reveals that 60.2% of American families have both parents working. By using the higher percentage of families for this we find that yes, an average American family can indeed homeschool their children in their spare time from work with a grand total of 6.5 hours to spare in their lives each week. This all assumes everything is perfect in their lives, no one has any health issues, and everything happens exactly as it is supposed to.
What a boring life.
