Another question from Mars. LOL

As many of you can remember , I am not from the U.S.
OK, I follow many U-tube channels about gardening and homesteading ..etc. and come across the word (homeschooling). I want to be sure I understand what it means.

So, parents sit with kids and explain the subject and help kids solve math problems for example. I get this part. But what does it mean for the rest of the educational process ?? Do kids go to school or not ? And how do they have exams ?

Thanks

Homeschooling procedures and rules vary from state to state. The premise is that the parents do the teaching. Sometimes by direct "lecture", sometimes by access to programs and modules prepared professionally for this purpose. In some situations there are "associations" of homeschoolers which get the children together for social experiences. My understanding is that typically the students are expected to pass certain tests designated by the school board to get an "equivalency" diploma. However, they do not attend the schools physically and don't take classes provided by the school district. The premise (which is arguable) is that "Parents Know Best" about what their children should learn and be exposed to.

An example of "home schooling" is presented by the Iowa State Department of Education at:
https://educateiowa.gov/pk-12/options-ed...-home-schooling

That is one example - requirements and expectations vary from state to state so your local Dept. of Ed. is your best resource locally.

The issue can quickly get political so be sure you are researching actual information for your location and not just a nice site of information with a 'slant' on issues.

Private or home education materials are also available for parents to use in developing an approved curriculum.

I don't have kids so I won't comment on the validity of home-schooling except to say that I sure couldn't do it! Obviously it takes a good amount of time, difficult if both parents work. But mostly I don't have the broad base of knowledge needed to give kids a full education, especially since I'm 52 and all my IT/computer skills are a bit dated. It won't help a kid for me to try to remember enough BASIC, Fortran or COBOL to teach them. And it's been WAAAAAY to long since my last math class to be of much use trying to teach it to someone else.

Thanks everyone

I agree Phaedrus. It is not easy.

Due to Covid situation, our educational system converted to online. I had to help my daughter homeschooling her 1st grade son. I focused on the teaching material while she navigated through the technical part (MS Teams, I think, and Blackboard programs).

She moved back to her apartment now and the kid is back to real school, but it was not easy last few months.

I think I could handle 1st grade math without too much trouble.

The 1 grade math might have collected a little dust on my side. OTOH a coworker complained that "there are no wrong answers" carried over to math in school too. That might be a bit hard to handle .

Problem is that math is not the only factor to worry about. Teacher is on the other end ( through Microsoft Teams or equivalent and shifting back and forth to another program called Blackboard, if I can remember.

And sometimes it becomes funny, as the kid writes something , and teacher somehow doubts that we cheated, LOL, so he asks to put camera on and show the kid actually writing.

This is why I only deal with the math and stuff, but my daughter deals with platform navigation. When she was in hospital for a week, I couldn't help the kid.

You haven't seen common core.

Daughter's work for 2 x 3 = 6 was marked wrong for example because it was suppose to be 3 sets x 2 = 6 according to the common core method.

And I might have that backwards as I can't recall which was wrong and right between 2x3=6 and 3x3=6.