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Can I homeschool my kids even if I am a foreigner and my English is not perfect?
I have a 4 and a 3 yr old , I was wondering if I can homeschool my kids. I speak Romanian and French and my English is ok but not perfect , I do not know a lot about education here in the US, but I heard the schools&teachers here don't have high standards of education , not to mention the moral values in the schools today . I heard the students don't have any respect for the teacher,are noisy in the classroom , they don't learn too much , which made me think about homeschool , but I am not to confident I can do it, especially that I am not a teacher. I consider myself educated, I went to nursing college in Europe , and know a lot about History,Geography,Chemistry,Biology etc
but I still don't know how to teach my kids and what they should learn . Also I have limited resources to buy curriculums when the public school is free. What do you think about public schools are they that bad?
Well, I'm not fond of the public school system. Your kids will not be socially isolated if you homeschool, you know that. You won't let that happen.
You can certainly homeschool your kids if your English isn't perfect. About half the kids that go to my local public high school don't speak English fluently, and your English seems fine to me.
American schools are bad, it's that simple. At my local high school -and the elementary school I went to- kids are always loud, there are fights in the hallways, kids are getting high and pregnant in school. The educational standard is low, because the whole system across the nation is mismanaged, choked, and never intended to do what we think it's supposed to do today.
You don't have to be a teacher to homeschool your kids. Many teachers don't know much about their subjects, they just teach from a book.
The idea of 'should know' is actually arbitrarily decided by someone in an office who doesn't know your kids. Think about it. What gives that person, who's never going to meet you, the authority to decide what facts are valid for your kids? Trust yourself.
Homeschooling is actually cheaper than public schooling, assuming you're a normal person and not the beau monde families that get on the news, who have better facilities than schools do. My family spends about $2000 a year homeschooling me and my twin sister.
You can either buy a curriculum or make one of your own. It will be very cheap now, actually, since your children are young. You can go to any bookstore and buy some workbooks in at least English and math. Then you can go to the library and take out other books on other subjects, or get them from a used bookstore, or from other families. Homeschooling is very cheap and much easier than people think it is.
You've taught your kids to speak, write, walk, and be human beings so far, why must you turn that responsibility over to someone whose only qualification is 'college' that's mostly crowd control? My cousin is a teacher in New Jersey, and she said that her teacher training -which she went through about two years ago- was 99% learning how to deal with fights among, keep a large group under control, and how to be authoritative. All things exclusive to the school system.
You can do it. At least try it. If you aren't satisfied, you can put them in school, but I think you should give it a shot.
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