Homeschooling parents have much less time than you think

Homeschooling parents have much less time than you think The time needed to teach children the basics? Reading, writing and arithmetic? is much less than you think. To quote the author, and public ex-teacher John Gatto from his wonderful book, Dumbing Us:? It was the colonists geniuses? [That is to say, because our ancestors were colonial literacy rates close to 90 percent?]. No, the truth is that reading, writing and arithmetic only about 100 hours [italics added], while the public is ready and willing to lea. . . . Millions of people teach them these things. It is not? T very difficult. . . Too conservative, not to speak? It assumes that you are there? King is not a teacher are one hundred three hours Teach your child these skills through leaing-to-Read Phonics work and computer software. Three hundred hours, divided by the average of six hours a day of school, the school is less than fifty days, which is about ten weeks or three months.Let emphasize this point? could be you, a mentor or to pay up to three months to teach your child to read, write and arithmetic simple. Also here are even more conservative than most children can lea these skills in a year, if you (or a tutor) concentrated your instruction on this basis. Public schools take eight to twelve years of children? Life, but are millions of graduates who have just read your diploma or multiply 12 x15 without calculator.David Micki Colfax and his wife were teachers in public breeders who have taught their four children at home in the 1970 and 1980, and three of its children went to Harvard. They co-author of a book called Homeschooling for Excellence, which he describes his experience of home-school. In their book, but I respect the time a child in public schools waste time, on average, home-school parents should teach their children the basics. Here? S, what he wrote:? The data are clear and irrefutable. Children who are in public schools generally spends about 1100 hours a year, but only twenty percent of them? 220? Certainly, as educators? Task. Almost 900 hours, or eighty percent are wasted, largely on organizational matters. In contrast, the homeschooled child spends only two hours a day, seven days a week, throughout the base year alone, the records for three times the number of hours? Task? in a given year than their public school counterpart. Moreover, unlike the public school boy whose day is largely determined by the non-task activities, the homeschooled child has enough time each day to participate in other activities? Sports, art, history, etc. ..? Then, according to the authors, if home-trained child study for two hours a day, all year long, are three times more clock basic academic education, such as reading, writing, arithmetic and training of public school, not only does not is your child the basics at home takes much less time than you thought, but the teaching of these skills is now even easier, because the parents do not all the leaing resources available to them that we? ve already noted. Even as bookstores Baes and Noble and Borders have whole sections full of books on teaching children to read, write, and basic mathematics, as well as the books that the interests of young people and the challenge readers.Once your children to lea read correctly, the whole world of leaing to be open. You can find that every problem, and read the material more difficult, even in books or on computer. For a small fee, children can all Encyclopedia Britannica online. You can count on almost all major libraries in the world via the Inteet, including the Library of Congress. If your kids love to read and lea, the Inteet offers unlimited resources.Once currently read your children, you can save it to your local library or bookstore, supervise their studies, and see where their interests are . Your task is to make your children in so many different topics and possible resources. They have the art at local YMCA, library, arts and crafts, or save. Running on different types of music. See if they have a lesson in music at the piano, guitar or drums. Give them classic novels by great authors read.Most home-school parents spend about three to four hours a day Homeschooling their children. The crucial point is to remember that there are many options and a wealth of educational material available to help you home school your children and give them the basics quickly. If you take advantage of this material, home school may be relatively simple, and much less time than think.Joel Turtel is an education policy analyst and author of? Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie to betray our parents and children. "Contact: Website: E-mail: lbooksusa@aol.com, Phone: 718-447-7348.Article copyright? 2005 by Joel Turtel NOTE: You can search for this article on another website only if you have a hyperlink to Joel Turtel? S E-mail and website,