Back to school

A programme called wife swap was on the other day, it was about two families, one that had children in school and one that homeschooled children. When they swapped the mothers, the homeschooled children were sent to school by the mother of the schooled children. Three things arose from this experience. The homeschooled children became very bored at school, they didn’t want to work all day in a classroom and finally they weren’t used to having to work to a strict timeframe, as they could normally spend all day working on something if they wished. I think this is very important as in the real world there are time restraints as well as office environments.

The positive lesson that became apparent from this experiment was that the homeschooled children were a very close family and loved being together and spending time together, they had two loving role models.

This then makes me question the role models for our children and who they should be, teachers or parents or both?