AreaCode707
Lifer
- Sep 21, 2001
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That's what my parents did. But California is about to make it a lot harder for parents to choose to homeschool, probably with the aim of making it illegal in the coming years.
Home schooling should be illegal. Home educated people are like the ones in that town in Footloose before Kevin Bacon taught them how to dance.
Why, because you don't agree with it. If it were up to you, you would shove your narrow minded views down everbody else throat. What is you reasoning and please provide scientific proof! :frown:
well theses are the PC retards that don't blame the terrorists for flying planes into the WTC, to them The WTC was in the terrorists way.
What kind of future does a kid who graduated from Mom's living room have in the real world? Public school, ghastly as it is in this country, at least will acclimate kids to the way life works. Competition, working in groups, social interaction, and a reasonable shot at higher education.
That is no proof.
And what chance does a kid have in a real college if he/she goes to a public school that has such low standards(too many students per class, constant fear of harm, sub-standard education)??????
Education wise home schooled kids would seem to have an advantage. Social skills would be at a disadvantage......
Big freak'in whoop to be at a social disadvantage...look at where you are posting. Most of the people here are socially inept and spend wayyyyy too much time on their computers.
AreaCode707
Lifer
- Sep 21, 2001
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Whoa now, watch who you're quoting, I definitely didn't say that.
And jaeger66, take your uneducated opinions and shove it, please. I'm homeschooled, graduating from college at the age of 19 with a double major in English and Communications and a 3.8 GPA. I'm hardly the exception to the rule. Homeschoolers by and large tend to excell over their peers academically. Socially, I'm well adjusted (no thanks to school, during which I developed a social phobia that took me a long time to overcome). Homeschoolers, admittedly, may have a little more trouble relating to their peers than your average public schooled kid - but that's because they often relate on a higher level and find the conversation, status jockeying, and age-segregated system to not fulfill their social abilities. You know what? REAL LIFE isn't age segregated. Nor does it usually take the shape of public school socialization.
The majority of homeschoolers I know surpass regular students in their success and in their ability to cope with the real world. Statistics back me up. Who's at the head of spelling bees in the US? Who wins math competitions? Debates? Do your research first (or maybe that's something that homeschoolers learn to do and public school students don't) and then come back and talk.
It's called free enterprize system. Just like rednecks have a right to not buy Dixie Chicks CD's because they don't like what they say, CA schools have a right not to buy books because of what they say.
This thing cuts both ways.
This thing cuts both ways.
Originally posted by: Hatari Chic
Whoa now, watch who you're quoting, I definitely didn't say that.
And jaeger66, take your uneducated opinions and shove it, please. I'm homeschooled, graduating from college at the age of 19 with a double major in English and Communications and a 3.8 GPA. I'm hardly the exception to the rule. Homeschoolers by and large tend to excell over their peers academically. Socially, I'm well adjusted (no thanks to school, during which I developed a social phobia that took me a long time to overcome). Homeschoolers, admittedly, may have a little more trouble relating to their peers than your average public schooled kid - but that's because they often relate on a higher level and find the conversation, status jockeying, and age-segregated system to not fulfill their social abilities. You know what? REAL LIFE isn't age segregated. Nor does it usually take the shape of public school socialization.
The majority of homeschoolers I know surpass regular students in their success and in their ability to cope with the real world. Statistics back me up. Who's at the head of spelling bees in the US? Who wins math competitions? Debates? Do your research first (or maybe that's something that homeschoolers learn to do and public school students don't) and then come back and talk.
Yep, I edited my quote.
And this is my point, almost everyone that I have met that has been home schooled has been ahead of their respective age group.
You guys were assuming that the books were that great to begin with, which really they aren't. By the time the authors finish digesting and compacting the information, it usually becomes completely useless. Sure text substituting pc words really won't improve books, but how good were they to begin with?
That's OK, sweety. You know as well as I do that there is no hard data on this. The one major study that was done was funded by the Home School Legal Defense Fund, and is so full of disclaimers that I wonder why they even bothered. I live in one of the hotspots of homeschooling and what I've seen isn't pretty. Oh sure, these guys can factor an equation but something is missing. Ability to deal with adversity it seems...there is definitely something to be said for being tempered by hard reality. The people I'm thinking of have absolutely no ability to suck it up when things go to hell, or deal with psychological pressure. All of that might be OK in some cases, but the issue that nobody has seemed to address is how these kids perform AFTER they get out of the house.
Kadarin
Lifer
- Nov 23, 2001
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Some possible disadvantages with home schooling:
Lack of peer-level group social interation.
Lack of oversight.
Lack of standardized curriculum.
Advantages:
Student can learn at own pace.
Student may have opportunity to learn material that is not in standard curriculum.
I don't know enough about the subject to draw meaningful conclusions about whether it's acceptable or not. My fear is that religious fundies and others who object to tolerance and secularism will raise kids who are themselves fruitloops.
Lack of peer-level group social interation.
Lack of oversight.
Lack of standardized curriculum.
Advantages:
Student can learn at own pace.
Student may have opportunity to learn material that is not in standard curriculum.
I don't know enough about the subject to draw meaningful conclusions about whether it's acceptable or not. My fear is that religious fundies and others who object to tolerance and secularism will raise kids who are themselves fruitloops.
Here's snippets of the Texas way of "political correctness".
"Texas has a rising number of mixed-race families, for instance, but does not allow pictures of mixed race couples in books."
"Recently, the college history text ?Out of Many,? which is widely used in colleges, was withdrawn from consideration as a high school book because conservative groups and Board of Education members objected to two paragraphs that say prostitution was widespread in cattle towns in the late 19th century. The objection was raised on the grounds that there is some doubt as to whether the paragraphs are wholly true, but the protesters also disliked the portrayal of Texas."
Oh and heres Mississipi.
"The impetus for the study was a freshman social science seminar at Tougaloo College, Miss., Loewen's first teaching assignment. Loewen questioned students at the start of the course to see what they knew. Answering a basic question about Reconstruction, sixteen of his seventeen students viewed it as ?the period after the Civil War when blacks controlled the government, screwed up, and the whites took over.?"
Nice.
Your redneck blind eye is ammusing. Texas has its on board that reviews textbooks doing the same exact thing.
"Texas has a rising number of mixed-race families, for instance, but does not allow pictures of mixed race couples in books."
"Recently, the college history text ?Out of Many,? which is widely used in colleges, was withdrawn from consideration as a high school book because conservative groups and Board of Education members objected to two paragraphs that say prostitution was widespread in cattle towns in the late 19th century. The objection was raised on the grounds that there is some doubt as to whether the paragraphs are wholly true, but the protesters also disliked the portrayal of Texas."
Oh and heres Mississipi.
"The impetus for the study was a freshman social science seminar at Tougaloo College, Miss., Loewen's first teaching assignment. Loewen questioned students at the start of the course to see what they knew. Answering a basic question about Reconstruction, sixteen of his seventeen students viewed it as ?the period after the Civil War when blacks controlled the government, screwed up, and the whites took over.?"
Nice.
Your redneck blind eye is ammusing. Texas has its on board that reviews textbooks doing the same exact thing.
Ah yessss!! A knew quote to for me to spew forth, good one Scoob!!!
Exactly. In South Jersey here there is LARGE home schooling population here. And the home schooled kids usually run RINGS around the public schoolers....jaeger, shut up - youre wrong period....
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