Parents, do you realize that your kids come to this site with their homework questions instead of you?

Question

Look at pages 2, 3 and 4, instead of just page one. You'll see. Why aren't they asking YOU instead? Think about it.

I completely left out the main part of my question! I should have said: "
Home-schooling Parents", not just parents in general. This is the home-school page, not the homework page. So I think the kids are coming to this home-school page instead of the (correct) page, which is homework page, because they are being home-schooled.

Answer 1

I am guessing since this is posted in the "Home Schooling" section it is aimed at parents of home schooled students.

In home schooling situations, many times, especially in high school courses, parents are not knowledgeable enough in the subject area to teach it. Reading the text book is great, but home school students miss out on having an expert (professional teacher) present to answer questions about any questions they have.

I am a high school chemistry teacher. I have parents tell me all the time that they can't help their child with my homework, etc. because they either did not have chemistry ever or they had it "way back in high school." Imagine a child's understanding of chemistry if a parent such as this are their "teachers." This is true for many high school subject.

Perhaps, most parents are ok with the knowledge necessary to home school an elementary student, but when it comes to high school (and even middle school/junior high), the knowledge base is not made available to home schooled children.

Sorry for the tirade, the simple answer to your question may be that the child has asked a parent, and the parent just does not know.

Answer 2

In contrast to the previous response, I don't think this question has anything to do with homeschooling and that when selecting the category, a goof was made and homeschooling, which appears above homework, was selected instead. Which is what I suspect happens with all of the homework help questions that show up in here. People who are not paying attention to what they are clicking on.

Try again to post it in the correct category.

Answer 3

Many parents are at work when kids are doing homework. Many parents don't care. I don't do homework for kids. I would bet it is not the home schooled kids who come here for help. They usually have a parent to help them. It's just school kids who are lazy and want someone to do the work for them.
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Answer 4

PSS: I think your assumption that only homeschool kids are coming on here to ask homework questions is a faulty one, based on my reasons below. There is a huge difference in a public school atmosphere and a homeschool atmosphere. But I will grant you that I'm sure some of them could be homeschool kids.
Actually, my homeschooled kids do not come on here to get questions to their homework, because:
1: they do their own homework
2. they make sure they understand their assignments before "class" ends
3. If they run across something they don't understand, they know they can come to me for help
4. they would never trust people they've never met with their work (LOL)

One last thing, I am a homeschool parent, and I make it a habit to try hard to keep from trying to explain how things work in the public school setting (unless I am drawing from my experience as a student, parent of a student, or school volunteer), so I must point out that the public school teacher that was trying to explain how homeschooling works is off base. I completely agree with the statement about parents struggling to understand what their kids are doing in the public schools. If I had to pick up a 9th grade public school biology book and try to teach my daughter with it, it would be next to impossible. But the reason is not my lack of understanding of the subject matter. The reason is home education books are written with the purpose of enabling parents to teach their children at home. They are not written like public school text books. Many times they are simply self explanatory, and many times they come with extensive teacher manuals that are many times much bigger than the student text. For example, my daughters grammar book this year is about one fourth the size as my teacher edition. Her Biology book has her student text, a quiz booklet, a test booklet, a quiz guide and answer key, a test guide and answer key, a lab manual, a lab manual guide and an extensive teacher's guide with answers to reviews, lesson plans, enrichment activities, background information, research ideas, science project ideas.....get the idea? Much different than sitting down at the table with a traditional public school text book. And surely you can see how my child does not need to come to the internet for answers to her questions. If the answer is not contained in all that supplemental material, well, frankly, then the answer will not be found here, either. :)
To assume that homeschool parents use the same books in the same way that public school teachers do is a complete failure to understand what is going on.
A lot of misunderstanding would simply vanish if people would take the time to RESEARCH something before condemning it or making sweeping generalizations based on one or two people they've happened across in their lifetimes.
Ok, I'm going to jump off my soap box now, I have lesson plans to enter in the computer this morning! :)
PS I really do have a soap box, I make soap. but I've never actually stood on it! :)

Answer 5

i agree. ive noticed some very advanced answers to some very easy problems. it is the first month of school. its like some astrophysist is doing distance equals rate times time problems just to get 2 points.

America dumber by the question.

Answer 6

Why shouldn't they.

The parents are coming here to answer their kids homework anyway

Answer 7

precisely! So drained of their lazy little butts. They take it sluggish to ask persons to do their homework instead of taking the time to google stuff for themselves. Our new evil plan is to grant all of them incorrect solutions. (missplet)

Answer 8

Wow, I thought this was a rhetorical question, but look at how much discussion it generated!

Answer 9

I'm being homeschooled and I always ask my Mum - NOT- Yahoo7 Answers because I trust her lots, lots more than you.

Answer 10

maybe some homeschooled kids are coming here asking questions to see how dumb some people are, maybe they want to see if what they have learned you know. to see if they are smarter than you. (maybe they are)