Homeschooling rocks!

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: orakle
Why is home schooling still legal? You should have to get some kind of licence to screw your kids up like that.

I have been saying for years that you should be required by law to have a license to breed yet alone teach those kids anything.

 

[antyler]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: antyler
I was homeschooled. I'm not so screwed up, of course that's me saying that, but I can spell. I think.

It has its good sides you know. I graduated at 17 and had my A.S by 19 and now I'm married at 20.

Fixed that a bit 😉 in all fairness though it's your grammar that was off...I rarely capitalize. Also I post in stream of consciousness style so my punctuation and the like are in that form.

I don't know how being married is a plus to home schooling though....looks like you just met the first girl as a free man you could and hitched up to public schooled people.

oh gosh here we go. i. I noticed the miss spellings and the non capitalized IIIIII's but i was too lazy to fix them. Simply because i allowed a few grammar mistakes in my post doesnt mean, excuse me doesn't meant that homeschooling is a farse. I was not joking. i was homeschooled all the way through high school and then I went on to college and got my associates degree. or is it Associates. hm. ..

 

[acole1]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: orakle
Why is home schooling still legal? You should have to get some kind of licence to screw your kids up like that.

I have been saying for years that you should be required by law to have a license to breed yet alone teach those kids anything.

Generalizations FTW!!!

It is far more likely that the public education system has done more to harm kids than home schoolers ever have. The standards are so lax you can get through school and not learn a damn thing! Look at the mother for an example. If the public school system is so great, why is the mother so uneducated? 😕

It is sad how some parents feebly attempt to educate their children, though are hardly educated themselves, but in no way is it a justifiable reason to demand it be licensed, or outlawed.

It?s clear that even licensed educators are often times poorly educated. I overheard a conversation with one girl who had just graduated with a teaching degree, and she could hardly keep the Revolutionary and Civil Wars straight, let alone the presidents! Also, I have had at least one professor who couldn't spell worth sh*t! Students constantly had to correct his spelling on the board and in papers.

Home schoolers are not just rogue parents trying to brainwash and dumb down their kids; and in many states home schooling is highly regulated. Perhaps some more education on the matter would do you some good.

 

[Fardringle]

I love homeschooling. My 7-year-old daughter is enrolled in an accredited home schooling program through the public school district (the school provides the curriculum and the materials such as text books and supplies) and my wife and I teach her and our 4-year-old using the supplied curriculum. We are allowed to teach any way, in any order, and at any speed that we want to as long as the required subject material is covered.

The oldest has a hard time understanding math concepts so she needs a lot of extra time and attention to grasp the concepts, and she simply would not ever get that help in a public school math class. At the same time, she is an extremely advanced reader (she reads at a Fifth Grade level) and she would be incredibly bored in public language classes simply because she would be forced to participate in the same Second Grade activities of other students her age.

 

[zach0624]

I think that the most important thing for a child too have is the will to learn. I tested well out of high school in reading and math in the sixth grade. While the normal math and reading curriculum in public school didn't challenge me much I went to my teachers and asked for more and advanced work. I also would go and look up the subjects we were learning about in my social studies/history and science classes because I had a will to learn. This made the subjects I was studying enjoyable and was how I stayed interested in school. For example when righting an extra credit paper for my geocivonomics class on Islam I spent almost 8 hours researching a 2 page paper and spent another two hours editing it to make it the best I could(I could have written a 5 page paper in about the same time but my teacher put a cap on the number of pages). My point is that most learning takes on your own and I believe that teachers are there to give students a push in the right direction but students need to motivate themselves to learn.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Baloo

Anyway, one does not need to be a qualified teacher to home school their children.

And that's a scary thought.

I've seen some teachers who did far worse than my parents. <shudder>

Exactly. Just because someone got an Education degree in college (also known as a degree in Alcoholism where I went to school 🙂 ), doesn't mean that they're going to be a GOOD teacher.

For example, I'll bet that half of all ATOT members are better qualified to teach Computer Science I than most Education majors are. Experience counts for something.

For this kid, though, I'm really hoping that her father is doing most of the teaching!