Site member ItWasLovelyReadingYou, who was educated at home, on how children’s books offer a false picture about what home schooling is like and why YA fiction needs to start taking notice
I was home educated by my parents until I turned 16 and started college last September. Yet, contrary to popular belief, I had friends, I travelled places and on top of that I had the freedom to do what I wanted; maybe even more freedom than I have now. My love for reading in particular was nourished at home, and I am seeing a love for reading flourish before my eyes with my little sister, who probably already owns more books than me aged five. So many of my friends and acquaintances despise reading or just view at is something you have to do to pass an English exam. My reading habits matured and became more diverse much quicker than those of my school peers because I had the freedom to explore, and as a result I developed a much more diverse vocabulary; by the time I was 10 and a half I had read Jane Eyre and my favourite book was Little Women. Not only had my friends not even heard of these books, which I thought was incredible in itself, they were still reading the likes of books I had stopped reading around three years prior.
Related: Are primary schools teaching un-creative writing?
Continue reading...
0 comments:
Post a Comment