Any Home Schoolers on the board?
09-18-2007, 01:33 PM
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Any Home Schoolers on the board?
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Entertaining the thought of home schooling (homeschooling?) our kids. For the foreseeable future I'm going to be gone for up to 10 days at a stretch, then home for longish stretches and the wife and I think that we all might have more fun as a family if we aren't stuck to the traditional school schedule. We'd get 'em involved in activities like art and music classes and sports, and there is a home school co-op nearby for trickier things like chemistry labs.
Anybody have any experience with this? I'm interested in hearing the good and bad as well as pitfalls to avoid that you may know of.
Thanks
Entertaining the thought of home schooling (homeschooling?) our kids. For the foreseeable future I'm going to be gone for up to 10 days at a stretch, then home for longish stretches and the wife and I think that we all might have more fun as a family if we aren't stuck to the traditional school schedule. We'd get 'em involved in activities like art and music classes and sports, and there is a home school co-op nearby for trickier things like chemistry labs.
Anybody have any experience with this? I'm interested in hearing the good and bad as well as pitfalls to avoid that you may know of.
Thanks
09-18-2007, 02:35 PM
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I was home schooled from the 3rd grade on and was not robbed of any social skills. I played sports and had friends, this is a common misconception brought on by those who home school their kids for mostly religious reasons. Home schooling allows your kids to learn things that they are actually interested in and not the things that some educator deems important. I was able to go to public college and graduate without much trouble. If you are going to home school your kids be sure you keep them involved with sports and social activities and they will have a better education then they ever could in our broken school system. Good luck.
09-18-2007, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Beaker
Hiya
Entertaining the thought of home schooling (homeschooling?) our kids. For the foreseeable future I'm going to be gone for up to 10 days at a stretch, then home for longish stretches and the wife and I think that we all might have more fun as a family if we aren't stuck to the traditional school schedule. We'd get 'em involved in activities like art and music classes and sports, and there is a home school co-op nearby for trickier things like chemistry labs.
Anybody have any experience with this? I'm interested in hearing the good and bad as well as pitfalls to avoid that you may know of.
Thanks
Entertaining the thought of home schooling (homeschooling?) our kids. For the foreseeable future I'm going to be gone for up to 10 days at a stretch, then home for longish stretches and the wife and I think that we all might have more fun as a family if we aren't stuck to the traditional school schedule. We'd get 'em involved in activities like art and music classes and sports, and there is a home school co-op nearby for trickier things like chemistry labs.
Anybody have any experience with this? I'm interested in hearing the good and bad as well as pitfalls to avoid that you may know of.
Thanks
That was the only year he spent at the school.
He was essentially a pariah, lacking the social skills necessary to thrive in an out-of-home environment. Everybody ostracized the poor kid, and although he might have been just as academically sharp as the next person, he didn't thrive.
09-18-2007, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by lear 31 pilot
I was home schooled from the 3rd grade on and was not robbed of any social skills. I played sports and had friends, this is a common misconception brought on by those who home school their kids for mostly religious reasons. Home schooling allows your kids to learn things that they are actually interested in and not the things that some educator deems important. I was able to go to public college and graduate without much trouble. If you are going to home school your kids be sure you keep them involved with sports and social activities and they will have a better education then they ever could in our broken school system. Good luck.
09-18-2007, 04:33 PM
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I used to homeschool my kids - it was great. We loved it. Our schedules were easy and my kids had a ton of opportunities. About the social skills....my kids were very involved in extra curriculars so that was never a problem for us, but be aware if you do keep your kids home all the time etc, that it can become a problem. When I put my kids in public school they both tested well above their peers, and they hadn't been sitting in school 6 hours a day when they were taught by me - it was more like 3, max.
If you have any more specific questions, pm me - I homeschooled for 3.5 years and there is just too much info to type!
If you have any more specific questions, pm me - I homeschooled for 3.5 years and there is just too much info to type!
09-19-2007, 04:01 AM
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Home schooling is an insult to the public education system we have in the USA. Home schooling should be outlawed.
Why would you home school when we live in a country with the best public schools the world has to offer?
-LAFF
Why would you home school when we live in a country with the best public schools the world has to offer?
-LAFF
09-19-2007, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by LAfrequentflyer
Home schooling is an insult to the public education system we have in the USA. Home schooling should be outlawed.
Why would you home school when we live in a country with the best public schools the world has to offer?
-LAFF
Why would you home school when we live in a country with the best public schools the world has to offer?
-LAFF
That pretty much sums it up for the most part. Where I live, the public schools are rated top in the nation, so I can't really relate to some of the things in this video, but if you have the time, watch the whole clip. It's really interesting.
09-19-2007, 02:03 PM
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LAFF, is my sarcasm meter broken? Because I felt you laid it on pretty thick. Why would you mock the greatest education system in the world? Name one other first world nation's public schools that give children firsthand experience on how to dodge bullets and how to go through life while putting forth as little effort as possible?
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