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Home school
(Continued from page 3)
“I’ve certainly seen where it
(home schooling) has worked and
worked beautifully, but I’ve also
seen a lot (of cases) where I’d really
question the motives (of the paren
ts),” McFarland said.
She said that generalizing the
home education movement as good
or bad can’t be done because the ed
ucational and social needs of each
child are unique.
“Each and every child is different,
each and every school is different,
each and every case is different,” she
said.
Those who know home schoolers
and have seen the positive and neg
ative aspects say the parents’ role is
central for a productive home
schooling experience.
Dee Yates, a graduate student in
educational psychology, has run a
private school and come into contact
with many home schoolers.
Her experience is that children of
parents who home teach often so
cialize together in a way that fulfills
the children’s socialization needs.
What is also important, Yates said, is
the parents’ role.
“The people I know who’ve done
it have not been trained in educa
tion, but they’ve been able to handle
the first few years,” she said.
“I have a problem with people not
knowing what they’re doing and kids
not getting a good education. But if
you know what you’re doing and you
can give them a good education and
they’re still getting socialization, I
don’t have a problem with that.”
Studies show that, of the parents
who home school, at least one parent
has a college education, and many
parents say that specific instructional
training is not necessary for a pro
ductive teaching experience.
“There’s tons of material out
there for anyone,” Crouse said. “If
you can read you can learn anything
— if you have a desire to learn —and
I have a desire to learn the best
method to teach my children. I do a
lot of research.”
Crouse said her children follow a
workbook curriculum format that is
used in many Christian schools. Her
children do about three hours of the
standard academic fare, such as
reading, writing and mathematics,
each day.
The McDow family teaches their
children using a curriculum from an
Illinois-based school that teaches
about 20,000 students via satellite
communications.
Indeed, what skeptics have found
is that home schoolers consistently
do well in independent studies mea
suring aptitude and basic curric
ulum requirements. Studies by the
Departments of Education in
Alaska, Tennessee and Washington
show that home schoolers score just
as well as, if not better than, their
comparable academic group.
Dee Yates agrees that criticism of
home-schooled students is un
founded.
“I think that more than an (educa
tional) program, it’s the teaching
ability and the IQ level of the kids
(that determines success),” she said.
“Those are factors that haven’t been
taken into account when people start
throwing out accusations.”
The case of the Colfax family in
California is a home-schooling suc
cess example. The oldest child, who
was home schooled on the family’s
homestead, was accepted into Har
vard and graduated with high hon
ors. The Colfaxes argue that ap
proach, rather than IQ, determines
success, and they continue to home
school their two youngest children,
who are adopted.
Home schoolers who receive their
General Equivalency Diploma and
hope to attend institutions of higher
learning around the country meet
with different acceptance standards.
Texas A&M will admit only high
school graduates and therefore does
not usually consider home-schooled
applicants.
ELach and every child is
different, each and every
school is different, each
and every case is
different.”
— Katherine McFarland,
A&M doctoral student
Dr. Bill Lay, director of student
admission, said that although home-
schooled students usually aren’t ad
mitted to the University, any appli
cation is subject to appeal.
“We have not admitted anybody
directly who I know of that has come
out of the high school home teach
ing program,” Lay said. “In the past
year I may have talked to four stu
dents (about home schooling) at
most. It’s not a great number cer
tainly, (but) a few more people are
doing it.”
Many home schoolers and federal
and state education administrators
are now looking for a compromise
between what roles they should play
in providing a good education for
children.
Many parents argue it is their
right under the Fifth Amendment to
educate their children at home for
religious reasons.
“The question is ‘Should govern
ment interfere with schooling?’ ”
McFarland said.
Whelan said the status of compul
sory attendance in public schools al
ways is changing.
“I hate to say that we’re (TEA) not
100 percent successful (in providing
a good public education),” Whelan
said. “A lot of times the educational
needs of a child are probably going
to be better met in the home school
than they are in the organized envi
ronment.”
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