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| The quiz at the SCT Summer School |
The only people involved in a child’s education who have an overview of the whole process, from babyhood to adulthood, and who truly know the child, and his or her needs and ambitions, are parents.
They are their children’s primary educators, in a sense that encompasses the moral relationship between parent and child, and the practical and biological relationship.
To a teacher, your child is one among many pupils, as they try to get the class through the syllabus with as many children as possible keeping up, and not too many getting bored. They know little about what else their pupils are learning, or have learnt up to now.
It is simply impossible for teachers to pay that much attention to any one child. No teacher, however conscientious, can take the ultimate responsibility for a child’s education. That burden can never be lifted from parents. It follows that parents must know what is going on in their children’s school, and intervene when necessary.
I can't speak highly enough about homeschooling. I was a mother on my own, working as a RN, and homeschooled my two sons with generous evening watchfulness from my parents three nights a week. Many years later, those sons each have successful businesses and wives who were willing to homeschool. One has some children in a traditional Catholic school. The homeschooled belong to a city band and just performed in a large televised parade. One has been offered a position with the junior symphony. They all study Tae Kwon Do or sports, and have very active social lives, and the older boys are all altar servers. Homeschool can be done even with limited time and money. It just takes a bit of determination and consistent effort, but I found it very rewarding, as do my sons' wives and families. Thank you for this post.
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