Professionals

Titled: Home Schools Run By Well-Meaning Amateurs
Subtitled: Schools With Good Teachers Are Best-Suited to Shape Young Minds
By Dave Arnold (Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, is head custodian at Brownstown Elementary School in Southern Illinois.)
Quote from Mr Arnold’s article: There’s nothing like having the right person with the right experience, skills and tools to accomplish a specific task. Certain jobs are best left to the pros, such as, formal education. … So, why would some parents assume they know enough about every academic subject to home-school their children? You would think that they might leave this — the shaping of their children’s minds, careers, and futures — to trained professionals…”

Everyone has their own opinion - he to his and me to mine. Here’s my thoughts after reading his article. Why would a janitor assume he knows enough about homeschooling by glancing at a few websites, with an obviously closed mind, write about trained professionals shaping my child’s mind, career & future? Parents shape their child’s mind, career & future - not teachers. Teachers instruct children. Some teachers might have an impact on children which might lead them to certain areas whether knowingly or unknowingly. (Obviously I’m not speaking of higher education.) Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictonary defines teacher as “one that teaches; especially : one whose occupation is to instruct.” It also defines custodian as “one that guards and protects or maintains; especially : one entrusted with guarding and keeping property or records or with custody or guardianship of prisoners or inmates.” So maybe there is a connection: Institutionalized schooling and inmates (also known as public school children).

I Googled head custodian and the first link says : “Head Custodian. Duties. 1. Dust, sweep, mop, and buff floors as necessary. 2. Using appropriate protection against contact with body fluids, clean vomit and …” (which comes from a website’s Job Description of Head Custodian cape.k12.mo.us

I AM the right person to choose my child’s form of education. I choose to homeschool my child. I am also not a head custodian but I can also dust, sweep, mop and clean vomit too.

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