Article: Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take A Lot Less Time Than You Think
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Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take A Lot Less Time Than You Think
The time you will need to teach your children the essentials ? reading, writing, and arithmetic ? is much less than you think. Let me quote author and former public-school teacher John Gatto from his wonderful book, Dumbing Us Down:
?Were the colonists geniuses? [i.e., why did our colonial forefathers have literacy rates close to 90 percent?]. No, the truth is that reading, writing, and arithmetic only take about 100 hours [italics added] to transmit as long as the audience is eager and willing to learn.... Millions of people teach themselves these things. It really isn?t very hard...?
To be conservative, let?s assume that because you?re not an experienced teacher it takes you three hundred hours to teach your child these skills with the help of learn-to-read ...
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