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With all due respect, I'm sure you are a wonderful teacher, and it is obvious in your postings about it that you do take your job seriously, but this paragraph is not really fair.
Not all of us homeschooling parents are drunks, lazy, or uninterested in our children. Nor are we all uneducated. I am not sure about where you live, but where I live, parents must prove they have graduated highschool to homeschool until 8th grade, and college education to homeschool their highschool age children. I have both.
I chose to homeschool because my children were being bullied at school, being forced to throw their lunch out before they were finished eating so they wouldn't miss recess, and being kept at school when they were so sick they could barely stand.
No, parents shouldn't attack teachers, but nor should teachers attack parents. And neither group should be lumped all together as being the same ie Not all teachers are bad, and not all homeschooling parents are uninvolved, uneducated drunks.
Some of us have a real interest in knowing what our children are learning, and those of us who are want to be a part of that learning process, not the one who gets to hear at the end of the day, "Mom, I learned to read today!"
You, as a teacher, get to experience the excitement and the awe a child feels when they finally "get it" or they learn something new. I want to share that with my child. I was there when they learned to sit up, crawl, walk, talk, and potty trained. Why shouldn't I be the one to watch them learn to read, write, to count, and unlock all the secrets of science? Why shouldn't I, the parent, be the one to witness the wonder and awe in their eyes when they learn something new?
I, the parent, am their first teacher.
No where in anything I've written does it say that home schooling parents are drunks or lazy. I've also said that I home schooled my son for several years. That paragraph you centered on is one of many, and an example aimed at certain parents not all of them. It does not lump them all together in any way.
I firmly believe that all parents should be albe to experience exactly what you've described and if more were active in their children's classrooms they would get to experience this every day.
Yes, you the parent are their first teacher, that is wonderful to say isn't it? It's a shame that some can't or won't take the time to teach their children isn't it? Just think that if all parents were able to sit down with their children and help them with their homework, and see that it gets turned it, they would have those wonderful opportunities of seeing their children grow in knowledge.
But,,,, it's much easier to blame the teacher for not teaching their children the respect and management skills they need to do that work isn't it? The parent is the first teacher, SOME parents do a lousy job of it, just the same as some teachers.
