Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homeschoolers

[JSt0rm]

What I'm saying is that if you are ACTIVELY involved in your child's education then public schools won't be so bad for them. Home schooling would be preffered, but those kids in public school who aren't learning or whose parents don't care are beyond hope and home schooling them will not help them. It isn't some magic bullet.

I agree. But I refuse to bar people from teaching there kids at home because some retards breed and make more retards and try to homeschool them.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Your kidding right. Home school is more than books its learning other things also depending on whos schooling the child and home resources. In my case my shop has a Mill lathe punch press woodworking tools just about everthing. Mig stick and tig welders. Press and more hand tools than you can shake a stick at . All the electronic tools to setup visual aid machines and much more. I have taken care of grandchild for almost 3 years now . He is advanced big time compared to others children his age. As far as being social he excels at that also . Most adults are taken by surprize by the way he conducts himself and the learning he has lovingly recieved. No I can teach him more than any school can possiably hope to . I understand that not all have the time or knowledge to prepare a child for manhood or woman hood than we have . So I don't generlize as to home schooling being good for all . But In this case . Home schooling will be much more of an advantage than a disadvantage.

 

[JSt0rm]

Your kidding right. Home school is more than books its learning other things also depending on whos schooling the child and home resources. In my case my shop has a Mill lathe punch press woodworking tools just about everthing. Mig stick and tig welders. Press and more hand tools than you can shake a stick at . All the electronic tools to setup visual aid machines and much more. I have taken care of grandchild for almost 3 years now . He is advanced big time compared to others children his age. As far as being social he excels at that also . Most adults are taken by surprize by the way he conducts himself and the learning he has lovingly recieved. No I can teach him more than any school can possiably hope to . I understand that not all have the time or knowledge to prepare a child for manhood or woman hood than we have . So I don't generlize as to home schooling being good for all . But In this case . Home schooling will be much more of an advantage than a disadvantage.

So you taught him to be a welder? D:

 

[alchemize]

An Associate's Degree from a Community College.. Now that's really something!

Yah, and a bachelor's by 19. I know that's an advanced concept for you, maybe you should ask one of your teachers.

 

[alchemize]

IMHO, Homeschooling your kids should carry the same penalties as child abuse.

Public / Private matters not, just not home.

Small minority of asshats growing.

We've homeschooled our kids, oldest is going on 10. Not sure how far we will take them, as high school gets complicated. Although our local community college has a program that gives them an Associates Degree when they graduate High School Try that in a public school...

One thing we will be teaching them some day is statistics. One key concept from statistics is correlation !+= causation.

Too bad a (small minority of) bigoted asshats in this thread seem to think their anecdotal, selective life experiences are representative of an entire population. What's funny is they are universally open minded lefties, who trumpet tolerance, science, and reason, until it doesn't favor their argument. They also don't mind ignoring that homeschooling is constitutional parental right.

How do they come to such ignorance, I wonder?

BTW, I have a masters, my wife has 2.

 

[JSt0rm]

Small minority of asshats growing.



BTW, I have a masters, my wife has 2.

the people I know who home school are very liberal. Liberal doesn't mean stupid.

 

[extra]

Funny how people diss on home schooling. Yeah, those poor, poor, kids alright. (I wasn't ever homeschooled, by the way)...

Reality check though: All the home schooled kids I knew when I was in college were way, way, WAY ahead of almost everyone else. There was a kid in my calc class at university of alaska who was like...17. One of like 3 or 4 of us in that class that got A's. Other friend I had that was home schooled (all this families kids were home schooled)..and they might be considered by some here to be right wing christians in some sort of a way (not fundies though, but really traditionalist). Yeah, he's a math major in college. Socially their whole family was fine and went out and did all kinds of stuff. Guy could play piano and some other instruments...built computers, super intelligent--and perfectly fine socially. Unless I guess you consider being a dick to everyone being socially normal. These people were all really polite, etc.

I think people secretly resent home schooled kids because they are usually way better educated and aren't as fucked up as people who go to public school.

And to people who think kids shouldn't be home schooled past grade school because no parent could possibly provide the knowledge of the specialist teachers.... Uhh.... When did you go to school? You're joking, right? Either that is sarcasm, you are idiots, or you live in some vastly different reality than most Americans.

Intelligent parents would have no problems home schooling their kiddos up to the point where they'd be ready for college classes. . .