Where I grew up, math and science were mandatory until grade 10 and English until grade 12. I took biology and chemistry into grade 11.
Even still, math required understanding of logarithmic equations in grade 10 and relatively sophisticated understandings of King Lear in grade 12.
I’m wondering how uneducated parents actually go about achieving this. Like how someone with less than a high school education can explain algebra and allegory without extensive supplementary reading?
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It will vary depending on the family and probably by country too.
If you want a more official qualification, you can enrol in homeschooling courses. You pick the subject and your grade level, and these provide you with all of the supplementary materials needed to complete the course. You’re given assignments, which you complete and submit to a tutor for assessment.
Maths/alegbra is pretty easy to learn at home, because it’s all written down and you can learn at your own pace. You can also do subjects like languages, through listening to recordings and sending recordings of your voice back. You get corrections and feedback on your pronunciation from the tutor.
Technology has made this process easier, because you can learn online. It used to be done through the post.
Badly, in general these types of parents are overconfident in their own abilities and underestimate the skills of teachers in schools.
Where I live, I don’t believe there is a true “home school” as in parents teaching and grading. They simply are online students, they take the state’s virtual courses, which regular students can take as well (our state requires 1 semester of a virtual course for graduation). Our county/district also offers eSchool, which is online as well but does have a real teacher attached to it, which has a larger % of enrollment (usually it’s due to medical/personal reasons that the child is not in school, and not because the parent disagrees with the education system, but some of those people do exist).
idea of homeschooling is so bizzare for anyone from Warsaw Pact country, even disabled children have to go to the building and receive education outside of the house
How do they education their children when they don’t have a basic education themselves?
Poorly.
There’s a whole industry around it in America. Very weird science books that dance around evolution.
But America has low standards for a graduate to be proficient in math. Basic arithmetic and some algebra.
Of course home schooled kids tend to be smarter than public school kids. Public schools must educate all kids, including the dumbest.
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