Posted on 05/18/2008 3:05:27 PM PDT by wintertime
DOWNEY, Calif. - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.
But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.
"I'm studying statistics," says the alternately precocious and shy Cavalin, his textbook lying open on the living room desk of his parents' apartment in this quiet suburb east of Los Angeles.
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We used the Saxon Math books through Algebra II. They retook algebra II at the community college and one college level pre-calculus course. They were then ready for calculus I.
What prep work was done in math and who did it?
I taught them all of their math up to and including algebra II. We used Saxon Math. It is very self explanatory, and I learned right along with them. I would read the lesson aloud. We worked the problems together. We read one lesson, and worked every problem, every day ( including summers), five days a week (except for family vacations and very major holidays). It took about 7 months to complete one elementary grade of math.
I'm again assuming that a basis of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and trigonometry would be needed before calculus.
As previously stated, I taught them through algebra II. They retook algebra II in college, then a college level pre-calc course, and then finally calculus.
I hope he doesn’t turn into a educated terrorist....I said hope!
“When I took it as a “refresher” course in community college, I found it easy and can’t for the life of me figure out why it was so difficult in HS.”
My sophomore Algebra teacher (a “Mrs.Rasaka”) Hated me because she didn’t like my best friend. She even told my Mom that.
That summer I took Algebra in Summer School and got an A+.
Just aa bad teacher. Even my Mom realized that.
Publik Skool, of coarse.
“When I took it as a “refresher” course in community college, I found it easy and can’t for the life of me figure out why it was so difficult in HS.”
My sophomore Algebra teacher (a “Mrs.Rasaka”) Hated me because she didn’t like my best friend. She even told my Mom that.
That summer I took Algebra in Summer School and got an A+.
Just aa bad teacher. Even my Mom realized that.
Publik Skool, of coarse.
The prison-like, factory-like, Prussian model of schooling should be abandoned. With today's technology and excellent on-line curriculum students should be able to work at their own pace, and achieve **full** and complete **mastery** of a topic before moving on. This absurd farming schedule of summer vacation is archaic! With today's technology a student should be able to work on any school project 24/7 if they want.
If universal K-12 education were completely privatized teachers could organized themselves as do other professionals. They would have partnerships and associates. Schools would likely be smaller, year-round, include day care, and have a specialty in one of the arts or a sport. There would be small dame schools, mini-schools, homeschool tutoring, and one room school houses.
Government is running a price-fixed, union dominated, monopoly that is completely and utterly organized for the convenience of the employees,...NOT...the student and parent. Thankfully, some lucky children can escape the government clutches through homeschooling.
Oh I have considered it. A whole new frontier in education that is being addressed by many more trade and private schools.
But, along with education, another aspect of homeschooling is to give a child enough time to form a sound moral and emotional foundation to face the temptations of the world, resist, and be successful.
Hm?...Like the illiterate and innumerate 6th grade thugs who pushed my sister-in-law down the school steps. Or?...Like the gang bangers who broke the leg of my friends son as he was leaving his gifted and talent class? Or...Like the the lovelies who beat up that poor unfortunate girl that was shown on YouTube? Or...The 600 that had a race riot in their school in LA?
Somehow...I don't think the kid in that article will be doing that. As one of his professors said, “ “He's actually a pleasure to have in class. He's a well-adjusted, nice little boy.”
Gee! How much safer and more effective our government schools would be if they were populated with “ well-adjusted, nice little boys and girls”? Maybe more learning would take place if the good children didn't feel terrorized.
Exactly!
Bruce Shortt reports that more than 90% of homeschoolers remain faithful and **active** in their religion. Unfortunately, 70 to 90% of Christian children who graduate from government schools leave their faith. Worse, even those who do call themselves “Christian” hold beliefs that are more in line with the “Religion of Oprah” than would qualify them as Christians.
He can still receive education in other things. By the time he is 18, he will be able to do anything he wants. That is the ultimate in a future.
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At our local high school, one wag reckoned that most of what they teach there is “condoms and football”.
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I operated a clinic and had many government schooled and homeschooled children in the practice. Socially the difference was striking! What really got my goat was the institutionalized child's 20 degree off-centered and very bored stare, accompanied by monosyablic grunts.
In contrast the homeschooled children were curious about the office and its operation, asked questions about their treatment, offered suggestions, had responsible opinions about the direction they wanted their treatment to take, shared jokes, and told us about their hobbies and other interests. Wow! They were like talking adult midgets.
The homeschoolers were **normal**. It was the institutionalized child who was abnormally and artificially developmentally delayed.
When I was in high school, my algebra teacher gave me 4 D’s because she liked me..:)
My algebra teacher had 34 DD,s. Hubba Hubba!
Same with me with Calculus. It never clicked with me in HS, and I don't know why. I had an excellent teacher, but calc and I didn't get along. Took it again in my first semester at a community college and sailed right through.
Congratulations, wintertime. Your kids were really lucky. And you’re right about the social maturity of homeschoolers demonstrating just how socially debilitating the governmental schools are. I hope in my lifetime (yes, likely in vain!) to see the majority of them shut down.
the court that made that decision, also on their own accord decided to revisit the decision, which effectively set it aside until a new decision is handed down.
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