Homeschooling Meeting

Jamaica has seen an increase in the number of persons who are homeschooling their children. I guess the Ministry of Education has been taking note of such trend and has decided to converse with us. On May 22nd the first Home-school meeting was held at the Ministry of Education. Luckily for me I am homeschooling at a time when information is right at my finger tips.

I must say that it went well and I was able to meet- for the first time almost twenty other persons who have taken on the task of educating their own child/children. In a third world country such as mine, HS is considered as something that the more affluent people do. Of course when the former Prime Minister Andrew Holness decided to homeschool his children ( obviously not by himself) this mindset was further perpetuated.

The persons I met were not very wealthy people, I am certainly not in the top 10 wealthy families in Jamaica, but we all had something in common. As parents, we all believe that learning does not have to take place in an overcrowded classroom in a system that limits or shall I say, under-utilize the cognitive abilities of our children. 

Children should have the freedom to learn, not told what to learn and at what age to learn it. I can see where the ministry did make an effort to accommodate us. We even got charts- age appropriate - for our children. This in itself was a laughable matter. " So are you telling me that I am unable to get a time tables chart, just because he is 5  years old and according to the ministry they should be adding with their fingers at that age." I eventually got the charts, that  were appropriate for the level he is at and not the age he is at. Sigh!


Have a High Flyer day!!!