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| W&L professor's memoir offers insight into short-term <b>homeschooling</b> Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:10 AM PDT LEXINGTON — For Laura Brodie, the defining moment came when she realized her ten-year-old daughter Julia had hidden in a closet for an hour just to avoid doing 10 minutes of homework. "The thought of that warped equation broke my heart," said Brodie. It confirmed what she had been thinking for the past year-that her daughter was miserable and needed a break from elementary school. As a professor of English at Washington and Lee University, Brodie understood the benefits of sabbaticals and decided that Julia should be homeschooled for one year. Brodie's new book "Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year," published this month by HarperCollins, tells the story of her year teaching Julia and how it affected them both. Mary Pipher, author of "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls" called Brodie's story "funny, heart cracking, and ultimately profoundly educational. I recommend this book to all parents and educators who have ever thought, 'I wish things could be different.'" Brodie cites the Standards of Learning (SOLs) as a factor in her decision to homeschool Julia. "Teachers at Julia's school say over 80 percent of their curriculum is test driven, with a lot of memorization of facts provided by the state of Virginia. I'm not against all standardized testing-it makes sense for English and math in the elementary grades. But what they've done by adding SOLs to the teaching of history and science in Virginia is sad," she said. "We're producing a generation of children who are good at multiple choice but aren't really learning critical thinking." Brodie saw homeschooling as an opportunity to explore her daughter's interests in history and science, as well as covering the fifth grade essentials. So she immersed herself in a crash course on homeschooling. She found that in spite of the stereotypes about the nearly two million homeschoolers in the United States-that they are mostly Christian conservatives or the far left-there is a new trend of public school parents opting for short-term homeschooling. "It can help with a child who is being bullied or dislikes school. I think parents need to be in control of their children's education as much as they want to be. There are options, whether that means a private school or a year of homeschooling," she said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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