Homeschool Teachers

If you’re new to homeschooling and feel overwhelmed by all the possible curriculum choices and lack confidence in what your child should be doing, you may consider using a computer based curriculum.

As a homeschool teacher you get to choose not only WHAT your kids will learn but also HOW they will learn. There are many options to choose from and I recommend you take your time in researching each program’s potential as well as possible problems.

Your first step should be determining whether or not your child is able to sit in front of a computer for a few hours per day and their preferred mode of learning will be the key factor. If your child learns best through kinesthetic methods, a computer based curriculum is not for you! A visual or auditory learner may find this useful if they are not “needy” in the social or relational area.

Alpha Omega produces a complete CD-ROM curriculum called “Switched on Schoolhouse.” This series is Christian and provides K-12 homeschool curriculum including electives for high school.

There are many online homeschool programs that offer classes with “live” teachers and provide grades and transcripts but you may find this outside of your budget. Most homeschool families live off one income and find it impossible to enroll multiple children in these programs. However, if you can afford it and you can still provide oversight to and require accountability from your students, this may answer the problem of a parent not being able to stay home, such as a single parent.

Homeschool teachers always have options. Computer based homeschool curriculum is just one of many possible options. Don’t forget that each child is unique. Even if this type of program works for one of your students, it it not for everyone. A good teacher recognizes each student’s learning style and provides the best possible means to educate to that particular student’s abilities.

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What does the word school mean to you? 

Public schools are a product of socialist governments that the United States did not even participate in until the  mid-1800s.  At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the government felt an educated public was required for a prosperous future.  Note that the business leaders of this time were seeking to “mass produce” their way to success and prosperity.

In order to make the country strong, the governmnet decided that children were “state property” instead of the property of their parents.  Now the government’s priorities rule and parents have their children taken from the home for over six hours per day so children can be taught the government’s policies.

The child has become the state’s property to fill with “knowledge” that will make the child conform to the state’s agenda.  What type of knowledge do you suppose your government wants YOUR children to know?  Probably not the same as you would. 

For instance, do you want your children to know how and why our country was founded?  If so, then you’ll have to avoid all public school text books because they have rewritten history to provide only one perspective, “the government’s,” even though it could be 90% inaccurate!

Can your child be an active and productive citizen while being caged up for 6 to 8 hours per day with strangers who care no more for your child than an animal at the zoo?  Can you see the playground bully beating your child while no adult interferes because Darwin introduced “survial of the fittest?”

And if the government’s desire to have a strong and prosperous country is truly their motive, would they not teach children how to be entrepreneuers rather than employees?  Public school’s highest goals these days is to prepare a child for more school, “college”.  And this so-called higher education, (college) is supposed to prepare more employees.  When you look at the government’s interference with private business, (think mandatory health care) do you want your child to be an employee of a state entity that would require them to practice many things your basic conscience, faith and morals are opposed to.

If you’re ready to educate your children at home where you are more concerned with the entire makeup of a child, not just his capacity for unrelated knowledge, then don’t imitate the public schools.  Consider each child a whole person with personality, strengths, talents, preferences and characteristics that are completely unique.  Respect them as individual persons, not little robots that need to be trained to jump when the government says so.  Teach them to seek out truth and to think critically.  Don’t spoon feed them information and don’t set up knowledge as an idol.

Don’t go “Back-to-School” at home.  Have a relationship with your children and teach them the skills necessary for a truly worth while life.  Don’t settle for less - -  to become a “cog” in the government’s wheel of mass produced, dumbed-down clones to do the politician’s bidding.  They were created for something far bigger and greater.  Trust your gut and remember that you are raising human beings, not robots.

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