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Homeschooling/Mentorship: Cinematic Casing

posted 9 years ago by ab-gangulee-00
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"Educating Rita" (1983) does a fine job in presenting social attitudes towards education and institutions and self-awareness in our age of populism-catalyzed dialogue about homeschooling, school uniforms, traffic compromises, etc.

In particular, this movie offers good inspiration for ideas surrounding close mentorship and of course homeschooling (and adult education).

Homeschooling has a negative stereotype attached to it, since many feel that it is associated with the right of parents (or home-visiting teachers) to teach personalized religious doctrines more freely.

The separation of Church and State made the teaching of religion in schools a worldly matter rather than a cultural tradition.

One can argue that if an African-American parent has enough resources to perform homeschooling for their children, then that parent may believe that it would be a safer choice than sending their kids to inner-city schools that are plagued with juvenile delinquency, crime environments, and under-resourced teacher supervision.

Why do we market Hollywood (USA) movies such as "American Psycho" (2000)? Do we want Americans to feel more or less anxious about culture frailties?

I attended the prestigious Ivy League school Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) after attending a fine public high school in New Jersey (Eastern High School). I was also considering Yale University, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell. Currently, I am interested in pursuing an MBA at Seton Hall University, UPenn, or Florida State.

While I have no personal experience with homeschooling, I do have experience with personalized education and close mentorship, and in my opinion, homeschooling should be discussed in reference to web-based resources. Do parents feel they have ample access to educational and informational links such as Wikipedia to perform satisfactory homeschooling?

"Educating Rita" (1983) offers brainy and sensitive images about the the experience of learning and the sentimentalism associated with humanist philosophy.

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Homeschooling (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling

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[–] louiseculmer 9 years ago

Homeschooling is not as common in England as in the USA, but I eventually took both my younger sons out of school because of issues with bullying etc. Fortunately We were able to afford some private tuition for them, as I have no teachingbskills whatsoever. They both attended an informal group for homeschooled teenagers,with professional tutors. My youngest son still goes there. When i took no.2 son out of school, I was visited by the home education officer, and he was very friendly and helpful, not at all what I had expected. He was the one who suggested the place my sons went to. there seems to be more acceptance of it here than I had expected.

[–] Virginiana 8 years ago

Dear OP:

This film has nothing to do with homeschooling whatsoever. It depicts an adult completing an undergraduate degree in literary criticism through Britain's Open University, very much a public form of education. Did you even watch the movie?

You have every right to practice homeschooling, but in my view it's an excellent way to produce narrow-minded individuals who lack the experience to function as part of a large and diverse community with people from many different backgrounds and beliefs.

Most home-schooled students are only exposed to other children of their own racial, religious and socioeconomic background, while their counterparts in the classroom learn about different cultural and religious traditions from their peers. This isn't part of the curriculum, but it's a vital part of their education nonetheless.

With only Mom or Dad as their instructor they don't learn how to meet the expectations of many different teachers (excellent training for the future requirements of employers), don't learn to function as part of a group (again, a key job skill) and are not given the same opportunities as those in the classroom to explore electives in areas that their parents may not be familiar with. The same holds true for extracurriculars -- home-schooled kids miss out on things like the school play, the marching band or the robotics club.

I know you won't like this reply, but if you're going to use a movie message board to post a completely irrelevant treatise in favor of homeschooling you have to expect to get push back.