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RE: Why I’m quitting teaching part 11/11: Five ways in which mainstream education doesn't 'fit' society
I've seriously considered homeschooling, and even with fairly flexible schedules I am not sure my wife and I could pull it off. For now I rationalize things by thinking that school is where my kids learn to be in a room with others for several hours (although not exactly inspiring, clearly a life skill in our society), and I "homeschool" by teaching them to garden, camp, hike, fish, canoe, make home/bike/car repairs, build things, organize the house, etc, etc. :). An essential element of this approach is that we spend very, very little time looking at screens of any kind.
I think this approach is a good one. Kids should learn all those skills and we teach what we can when we can. So long as we put as much effort into that as we can then we are doing rhe best we can for our children.