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To: DoodleBob

Absolutely.

And to all this I would add that pride may get in the way, for how dare THOSE people do what I don’t do!


3 posted on 04/27/2023 7:34:26 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne
I'll throw my two cents in as a gray headed code jockey, particularly since the article is from "STEM Education Guide", yet their #8 reason against homeschooling is "Lack Of Critical Thinking Skills".

My public school isn't what encouraged me to start learning to program my small home computer when I was 14. Quite the opposite. Even with a lot less woke mess back when I was in school, there was still this push to conform to the system of focusing on classwork and assignments that were pretty much useless. By spending time doing those worthless assignments, I had less time to devote to studying the two main things that forever improved my life: 1) reading the Bible and getting to know God more, and 2) reading books and magazines on how to program my Commodore 64 (I just showed my age). I'm not saying my public school education had zero value. I'm just saying in the two main life changing things I was learning at the time (my new faith in Christ, and the skills I'd one day make a career out of), my high school public education was probably more of a distraction than home schooling would have been.

5 posted on 04/27/2023 7:51:03 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rurudyne

really. alot of folks on this forum are exactly like that, if they don’t do it, neither should anybody else.
Everybody minding their own beeswax is a good thing.


7 posted on 04/27/2023 7:58:15 AM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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