How many homeschooling parents have a college education?

Answer 1

Perhaps it depends what circle you are looking it. I have known several parents who chose to homeschool their children and the parents were skilled professionals with college educations and most had advanced degrees.

They developed a healthy curriculum to educate their children; The kids excelled in their studies and still enjoyed exposure to other peers through extracurricular activities despite not being schooled under 'routine' circumstances.

Answer 2

I have been homeschooling my two children for 6 years now. I have a Master's degree in Elementary Education and have taken coursework in Special Education. My dh is a lawyer so he has a doctorate degree and went to law school.

The homeschoolers I have personally met all have college degrees, and 99% of the homeschoolers I meet online (I am on some Yahoo lists for homeschooling) seem highly educated and appear to be college educated, or at least are good writers and are articulate. They spend hours, weeks, months, years sometimes researching good curriculums, good books, & good advice to try to improve their teaching. They seem motivated to make a success out of their children. I am pretty sure the children that are graduating from these homeschools will probably be doing well whether their parents have an AA or BA or graduate degree. For example, I have a Master's degree, but I don't know everything about education or history or remember it from school 20 or so years ago, but I enjoy learning and/or relearning it with my children, and I know where I can find information and I try to make learning fun and enjoyable for my children.

Answer 3

I don't know, but just b/c someone has a degree doesn't mean they are capable of educating kids. I think what is required from parents more is the determination and ambition to get out there and get the best education for their kids, they can.

Some parents, they get lazy. With homeschooling you can't be lazy.

Ideally you want parents who are willing to hunt down circuliums (apologize for the spelling error), hunt down teachers and college students who would be willing to help educate your kids through difficult subjects.

Find out what your kids will need to get a diploma or score well on the ACT/SAT. And set it up from there. Use workbooks and real life experiences, field trips, and challenges to give kids the best possible education they can get.

That is what I like about homeschooling... it's about you taking charge of teaching them all they need to know. It's tough, but you don't need a degree to show love, communication, general education, and strength. Real life lessons that will help them along the way.

A degree can't teach you that ****!

Answer 4

I do, and nearly everyone in my group does have at least a bachelors. But one of the best homeschooling mothers I know doesn't, and she's good at it because she is able to look at her kids and say "I don't know the answer to that, lets find out together" instead of being a know-it-all and driving her kids away, or creating disdain for her.
My MIL didn't have a college education, but she was driven to learn, and knew almost everything that you would know coming out of college. It meant more to her than some brat who's parents paid for college anyway.
Why does a college education make you smarter? I live in a college town and know too many dumkopfs coming out of school...it certainly doesn't cure stupid. Ignorance maybe, but not stupid
I'm not against college, but I certainly don't use it as a mark to judge people's intelligence.

Answer 5

I do. As do most of the homeschooling parents I know. Some are former nurses, former engineers, quite a decent percentage of former teachers, plus other degrees.

Now, statistically, I'm not sure. I do know that some studies done did not show a difference in achievement (on average) between students whose parents had a college education and those who didn't.

Answer 6

I have a BS and a MS degree, as does my husband. The majority of the homeschool parents in our group have college degrees. We have several former public school teachers.

Answer 7

In 95% percent of the home schooling families I know, both parents have college degrees.

I have a Master's degree and my husband has a BA.

Answer 8

Both of mine did. And so did my friends parents, so that makes,.. 7 married couples. (lol, and that's a prefect number.)

Answer 9

{Raising hand} Me, me, me! I have a Masters and my husband has a BS and more certificates than I can count off the top of my head.

Answer 10

That's a great question...hardly any parents have a college education, and that's why most kids who do homeschooling are hella stupid.but some kids are lucky.