Home Schooling

[tattuchu]

I think there are good reasons for home schooling sometimes , but I think there are a lot more children home schooled for all the worst reasons. If you home school your child are there checks and tests set up to ensure you child is actually getting a proper balanced education ? for example if you chose to teach your child nothing but bible studies .......

My born-again step-sister home schooled her son. The kid is smart, and very mature for his age. He's also socially inept, and horribly brain washed by religious indoctrination. I guess the are positive and negative aspects, as with anything else. Myself, I hated school. I had an awful time of it, socially. But that wasn't the fault of the school. That was just me being absurdly shy and generally retarded. I would have loved home schooling, but I'm not sure if that would have been better or worse for me in the end.

[tattuchu]

My step-sister, by the way, couldn't even compose a simple short letter without multiple spelling and grammatical errors. I used to have fun correcting the letters she'd put in with her Christmas cards. I mentioned this to her one year, jokingly, light-heartedly. I stopped getting Christmas cards from her after that
Anyway, I was always puzzled how someone so stupid* could teach her child anything. But I was told that there were prepared lessons that were procured somehow, and it's not that she made lessons up herself or anything.


*She stupid in some ways, but smart in others. She's a registered nurse, for instance, and makes good money. Me, I have the highest IQ in the family, for all the fucking good it does me. I work a shit job making shit pay.

[Tero]

Christian Science

[Bella Fortuna]

Bleurgh.

[Drewish]

I'm all in favor of home schooling. The public education system sucks and the internet has become a great place to... wait... Bella... how much cheese?

[Bella Fortuna]

I'm all in favor of home schooling. The public education system sucks and the internet has become a great place to... wait... Bella... how much cheese?

How much ya got?

[Tero]

For 35 dollars you can have any Christian science book:
https://www.brightideaspress.com/store/ ... cPath=6_54

[Schneibster]

"Christian science book" is a contradiction in terms.

[Seth]

The number of parents capable of actually 'schooling' anybody is probably measured in the double digits. And even then, those parents have better things to do anyway, like teaching real classes. The entire concept of 'home schooling' is a delusional farce. Would you trust a brain surgeon who was 'home schooled' to cut open your head?

Red herring, strawman, and false dilemma fallacies all neatly wrapped up into one concise and utterly incorrect assertion.

Not everybody can or needs to be a brain surgeon. "Home schooling" is about primary education only, not advanced medical degrees, and the state sets the educational standards that parents must teach to and the students must meet, based on independent regular testing.

And the fact is that home-schooled students usually meet and often exceed the grade-level competence of public school students when tested on the same curricula.

Home schooling can be particularly effective for exceptional students (or even average ones) who are dragged down by the lumpen proletarian least-common-denominator public schools.

[Schneibster]

The biggest problem with home schooling is it produces more stupids.

[Saoirse]

As someone who works in the public education system, I can safely say there are many things about it that suck ass. However, if a kid gets a fantastic teacher, it can make all the difference no matter what the school system or curriculum.

Since I'm a special ed resource teacher and no longer a classroom teacher, I hope like crazy that some of the kids on my caseload get one of the 'good' teachers in Prek, kindergarten, or first grade. A few of them phone it in and really don't do much for the kids who need extra support and it drives me crazy. I have a kindergarten student who is partially deaf and does not speak English as her primary language. When I have tried to show her classroom teacher basic signs for letters, numbers, etc, she claims she's too old to learn anything new. I wish I could say, "In that case, you are ready for death." I'm learning sign language for a few things it as best I can via the internet.

Education is a partnership. Unfortunately, becoming partners with parents is getting harder and harder. I find most of the parents I encounter are either too overwhelmed/busy/disengaged/high to be bothered or they are so on top of me that they impede my ability to do my job. We've lost the balance in our educational system.

[Tero]

There is the problem. And in urban settings parents have little help to motivate kids.

[Bella Fortuna]

Ugh.

[Ronja]

Jebus, Bella

What book is that from?

[rachelbean]

It looks very familiar, so I would assume it comes from the same curriculum I had which is:

http://www.aceministries.com/homeschool/?content=main