Agile education and pragmatic schooling

Are there a lot of programmers who homeschool their kids?

I think of homeschooling as an agile approach to education. I didn't care for 
school and 
dropped out of college to work f/t as a programmer. I don't know if there's any 
other 
professional career where you find as many self-educated people as programming.

I wonder if programmers are more likely to homeschool their kids than 
non-programmers. 
I manage the web site for the Greater Portland Homeschoolers, and my wife and I 
have 
been involved with the local homeschooling community for eight years. Quite a 
few 
members are technical professionals. I don't know if that's because computer 
nerds are 
more likely to homeschool their kids, or if it's because in Portland a lot of 
the good-paying 
jobs are high-tech (which enables one parent to not have to hold a job).

Most of the homeschooling parents we know practice what is known as 
unschooling, 
which is a very unstructured approach that lets kids learn what they want at 
their own 
pace. As I write this my five-year-old son is sitting next to me playing 
Pokemon on his 
Game Boy and showing a lot of interest in learning to read a little better so 
he can 
understand the game.

Greg Jorgensen
25 years of programming, 9 years of homeschooling
PDXperts LLC - Portland, Oregon USA



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