Posted on 09/11/2013 4:20:22 PM PDT by usalady
Home schooled children outpacing public school students
Do you know there are 10 and 12- year-old students already attending college classes in America? It is happening every day as parents flee the public schools and instead educate their children at home.
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Public schools are child abuse!
Kids should be learning Calculus by age 12.
Why? How many people would ever use it?
> Public schools are child abuse!
I am ever more inclined to agree with that sentiment.
To make the state of Washington look good they rolled the academic scores of home schooled kids into the total state score. If they hadn’t then WA scores would have put the state near the middle to lower standard.
Just saw a young lady the other day — she was 15. She could not SIGN HER NAME because they don’t teach cursive handwriting anymore.
Guess one day she will be unable to sign a contract to buy a home, a vehicle, or property ... or much of anything — sign her own checks, etc.
Guess they’ve probably planned it that way all along ...
Guess these kids will just make their “X.”
Pathetic.
Our 29 yo daughter was home schooled and attended (by scholarship) college at 16, traveled all of Asia by herself (on her nickel) at 17 & 18 and is currently leading a full filling and successful life as a responsible adult.
Public school is only slightly better than a felony offense committed by the government.
Learning calculus helps improve your thinking skills. Most people I encounter on a daily basis could use some help in that department.
I know my own daughter is well ahead of her peers. She was homeschooled on and off. She’s 26 now and doing extremely well for herself and is entirely independent.
Many neighbors and relatives used to mock me for homeschooling.
Thank God I stood firm.
Public schools, for the most part, train children to ignore their parents, and then they claim that parents can not possibly provide the “proper” socialization. Meanwhile, the kids who end up shooting their classmates are somehow “properly” socialized?
This has not been “news” for a number of years but the observation does need to be put in front of the citizenry often.
Our 29 yo daughter was home schooled and attended (by scholarship) college at 16, traveled all of Asia by herself (on her nickel) at 17 & 18 and is currently leading a full filling and successful life as a responsible adult.
Public school is only slightly better than a felony offense committed by the government.
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We homeschooled also. The public skool kids we knew (whose mothers mocked me regularly) , well, I’m just not sure. Not too many of them went to decent colleges, or even college at all. Lots are preggo early with lots of tattoos, as far as I know. That’s about it.
My own family mocked me initially. THEIR kids were popular.
Until the oldest daughter became an unwed mother at 17. We’ll try and avoid that ‘popular’. Thankssomuch.
1) Indoctrination into becoming a "victim", and living ONLY at the benevolance of Government forcing others to pay you way
2) Inner-city tribal parasites have no one in the home intelligent enough to teach
I said that 10 years ago and all the FReepers who were keeping their children in public day prisons threw bricks at me. It is more severe child abuse now than it was last year and will be more so next year. Parents who care about their children will keep them out of public school. No exceptions. Except, of course, in the Homosexual State, Massachusetts.
My homeschooled 13yr is doing Algebra II. He is advanced by 1 yr. in math. I can’t imagine him doing Calculus at this age.
My home schooled son is attending USMA at West Point. He is a senior, with honors now.
When applying, I asked the supe (3 star general) how West Point liked home schooled kids. His response...we love them 10 percent of the student body was home schooled. Probably higher now.
For full disclosure, my daughter did one year at a community college, and is now starting as an academic scholarship at Drexel University for biomedical engineering and has been invited to join the Penoni (spelling?) honors program.
My final son swims for the local high school team but is home schooled too.
We yanked our kids out of elementary school when the district adopted Mathland — no fractions, no long division, etc. We have never looked back, and my wife and daughter are currently writing a book about our experiences...
We live in one of the top school districts in the state of PA. Our school taxes are obscene.
My own family mocked me initially. THEIR kids were popular.
Until the oldest daughter became an unwed mother at 17. We’ll try and avoid that ‘popular’. Thankssomuch.
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LOl, yes, I do believe so.
I will admit — our daughter does EXTREMELY well ...she’s an analyst at a major, major, major US financial firm in NYC. She works in Manhattan. She went to a very decent college and did so well. She NEVER EVER suffered any problems with socialization .....in fact, she has a long term wonderful boyfriend and a nice group of solid close friendships from college — so that shoots THAT theory down.
And we were NOT Little House in the Prairie evangelical types ...we just wanted our kids to have a good, solid education where their abilities would be challenged .... of course, Faith was important to us, and we imparted our values as well .....but we really weren’t homeschooling insulated nut cases, like everyone paints you out to be.
It all started when I realize they were not going to teach the vowels ...AEIOU or phonics based reading. I knew nothing of homeschooling ...I just wanted the kid to be able to read!!
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