Posted on 10/15/2015 4:48:41 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
I dont know much about home schooling, but they seem to do great. Good Luck.
Why is he being picked on so much?
Kids AND adults can be brutal.
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International or Connections academy - have not used but lots of good courses
Ditto depending on state tuition may be free
Homeschool is great. You pick the social opportunities and peers and there are many
Life is too short for a kid to have to deal with being bullied. It is cruel and senseless
Speak out at the next board meeting of the school district, and be sure to name names.
Don’t get too wound up about this. Trust me, if you have the intention and motivation to teach your child at home, you’ll do fine.
My wife is a victim of the Florida public school system, yet she’s home schooled our four kids since 2002. They’re all much more accomplished in the academic area than she’s ever been.
There are tons of lesson plans and scholastic home schooling packages out there. Almost any of them are a better base than what you’ll find in the public schools. Just get started and do not fear. Americans did this for generations with very few tools to hand.
You’ll do fine.
I was homeschooled through Christian Liberty Academy:
http://www.homeschools.org/
I am homeschooling a child now and like Classical Academic Press:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
They have several videos on you tube that discuss homeschooling as well as instructional videos.
Save my site name and feel free to contact me with specific questions. Do not be scared of this. If you do not know the stuff you can learn it. Going through it a second time you will relearn it and its meaning will change as you teach. This is good for a student to see an adult struggle to learn. Have your student teach you. Have them write everything; a paragraph on your visit to McDonald’s; write out in sentence form step by step how to do long division, quadratic equations, anything. It will improve the connections the mind makes between vocabulary and numbers and will improve their word problems abilities and their analytical skills. ire tutors from your local college in subjects you need help in. Enroll in the remedial classes at the JC or take college course while still in grade school/high school. We have a number of tutoring services in our area that will avail themselves to homeschoolers.
You have a strange moniker. If you can educate yourself you can pass it on.
The essential ingredient if you don't have money and could otherwise send them to a decent school: time
They are more accomplished than her, I can believe. Certainly my students are. I like the analogy of how a machine can be used to make a machine more exacting than itself. The same is true of teachers. Moreover, I tell everyone I instruct that I want them to do better than me. Come back and show me whether I did a good job and how I could have done better.
Stole my thunder! These folks will help you through any legal questions or intimidation like they came down from heaven. Humble, knowledgeable, nondenomination.
As for schooling plans, if Catholic or ok with such carricula, google seton homeschooling. They have an accredited program that has teachers to grade everything and they give advice and encouragement by phone or online. It is a planned program of all subjects so a great place even for the eclectic to start if they wish to change things nect year. You are not late to switch! Go on their site and read issues of their monthly newsletter, especially the questions from parents....great advice and insight for homeschooling even if you go elsewhere.
Call them and ask questions and they will help.
Smart move, info about Public “schools” (Indoctrination from the Architect John Dewey...
The Dewey Deception...
To do justice to the mischief Dewey caused, we would need a writer like Robert Ludlum. He could write a thriller called “The Dewey Deception.” Make no mistake, this was a secret conspiracy. Dewey and a tiny group of pals (supported by Rockefeller’s guilty millions) engaged in a furtive plot to transform the United States into a secular and Socialist country. To make this happen, they determined that the young must be made less literate, less informed, than the parents. One generation into the future, these dumbed-down Americans would surrender their dreams of freedom. Recall how casually, in his Creed, John Dewey dismissed math, history, science, literature, geography—in order to make room for cooking, sewing, and manual training! Now, here’s what must be confronted directly: would the average American have voted for this? Of course not. So Dewey had to preside over a slow-motion coup carried out, for all practical purposes, in the dark of night. And thus began 100 years of deceit, disingenuousness, and dishonesty. The Dewey Deception is an apt name.
Unfortunately, many of today’s educators are Dewey’s clones, working the shadowy con that Dewey concocted so long ago. If you want to improve education in this country, you first have to shoo away these lost souls. Their distinguishing trait is that they no longer talk of What to teach but entirely about Why and How. The problem is that these soi-disant educators can do a perfect, bang-up, super-sensational job by their own lights, concocting an infinitude of programs, methodologies, theories, studies, research, insights, slogans and conceptual breakthroughs, but children can still end up no more knowledgeable than bricks. Indeed, that often seems to be the goal. The way we save our schools is to bury Dewey’s ghost. It has caused enough mischief.
http://www.improve-education.org/id42.html
Also read Sister Miriam Joseph’s “The Trivium.”
Do not let this book scare you. It will show you how education has declined over the past 50, 60 years or more. I reread it periodically. It is a good guideline. Also, Arthur Herman’s “The Cave and the Light” will make a good basic philosophy textbook and is conservative in its approach. He argues that Plato and Aristotle established two basic schools of thought and how everything has been a clash between these two ideologies ever since. I have read that 4 times and will read again. My 11 year old isn’t quite ready for it.
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Since you don’t show your state, we can’t say whether state compliance is zero or a real pain. As others mentioned, start by looking at HSLDA. They have the texts and explanation of statute requirements, state by state, as well as sample forms where called for.
You can also Google (Your State) Homeschool Associations and see what you get. Most states have at least one state-wide umbrella organization which may be able to give you information about groups in your area. Also ask at your public library.
With an 8th grader, my advice would be to choose a solid math and English curriculum - online, on CD, on paper, whatever you think would work for him - and then fill in other subjects as the two of you prefer (or as required by your state).
I definitely don’t think you should advise a new homeschooling mom to educate her children from peopleofwalmart.com You trying to scare her to death about how her kids will turn out????
(Check yo link, lol)
Public School is child abuse! Good for you. I’ve no help beyond that, but maximizing your input to your child’s education can only be an asset over the alternative.
I homeschooled years ago, but my oldest daughter is homeschooling three now, ages 11, 9, and 7. She has been through several different options, but now uses Classical Conversations. It’s awesome. Keeps her on track and they still see other children once a week - but they are children who have parents who care. Even the youngest one loves it and is gaining confidence in speaking in front of the other children.
That's a very good way of putting it. Thanks.
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