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Worried About Learning Gaps?
Gaps are an opportunity
The homeschool Facebook groups are all abuzz with temporary homeschool moms who want to know what curriculum to buy in order to reintegrate seamlessly with the public school system when it finally opens again.
They are homeschooling with good reason; the schools are failing to provide a good education. They know that because they have seen what their kids have learned through the shut-down so far.
And they aren’t happy. The education seems subpar. They don’t want their kids falling behind. So they are pulling them out and homeschooling them for the year.
Yet they can’t shut-off the fear that they will mess it up, do it wrong, or forget some crucial subject.
Did you catch the contradiction of this worry?
They pull their kids out of public school because the educational quality being provided is so low, while simultaneously worrying about whether this choice will make their kids fall ‘behind’ within this low quality system.
Their kids might miss something. What if they are behind next year? What if they struggle with going back?
Can you see the disconnect here?
Look I get it. We all worry about our kids education. As parents, whether or not we homeschool…
