Posted on 07/07/2009 9:02:03 AM PDT by Niuhuru
I just thought of something brilliant. A lot of parents want to homeschool, but one of the biggest arguments is that most parents don't know how to teach, that a certain sort of curriculum is needed.
Basically, kids could go to school from home and while they take the courses, they aren't subjected to the misery of going to a school where they'll be bullied, harassed, and they can also have more free time to learn other stuff if they want to.
For example, say Mary Jane wakes up at eleven, signs on, and then does a certain amount of work and then emails it to her teacher. Her teacher, working from home grades the work and then posts it on a message board that shows her grade, comments about her errors, and then at the end of each year her grades are tallied.
If Mary Jane flunks history, she can take the course during the summer from home instead of driving to summer school. Also, if Mary Jane passes a test that enables her to take, say, eighth grade reading while in fifth grade, she can take that course and not have to worry about it when she reaches eighth grade and has one less section of her education to worry about.
All in all I think this would solve a ton of problems. Kids could take a karate class or dance for phys Ed and have the instructor sign a slip saying they completed the course and the grade would be based on attendance and the successful fulfillment of say, posture if in ballet and mastering certain moves if karate or ballroom dancing.
So get ready to welcome the nanny state right into your kids' bedrooms.
Only when it comes to the basic courses. Other than that the kids are free to pursue a lot of other things that the government won’t have control over.
If you have any brainier ideas, please share them. I’m only thinking of kids who are getting bullied day in and day out and some of them don’t have a chance because both parents work all the time.
So, you were thinking of something else while you were typing this post ?
I’d have sold my baby brother into slavery to participate in a program like that over the time I spent in public schools. I loathed them after attending Catholic schools and got out as quickly as I could.
Already exists - Texas Tech University offers an accredited High School curriculum complete with diploma.
I think this could be revolutionary. This could open the door to online charter schools.
Talk about school choice! Great idea.
Too bad our govt is being run by statists who want control of every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave.
Change will come soon enough. The GOP will pull Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty folks into the big tent, and HOPEFULLY the GOP will reform their own ways as well. Then it’s “good bye statism!”
~SC
*sigh* I was thinking that you would respond and we would become good friends and have a great love affair! :)
The substance (or lack thereof) of the course material is also a problem.
The “concern” about parents “not knowing how to teach” is an educrat canard.
Might work, if it weren’t for the Dept. of Education and the new Cyber Czar.
That in itself will teach her to be a lazy slug.
That is hardly a problem. The smart kids breeze through, then spend the rest of their time learning the substantial stuff.
The idiots spend 24/7 trying to learn the government curriculum. It would also weed out the kids who don’t want to learn.
Or earlier, I was just trying to use an example. She could get up at six or seven.
Something quite similar to what you are describing is already in use by elite gymnasts who do not attend regular high school.
Cool, all the more reason to do it.
Ignore the naysayers. Innovation scares them. Frankly, I think this is an idea whose time has come.
You are missing my point. The actual CONTENT of many current curricula is antithetical to thinking, free people. It teaches WHAT to think, not HOW.
To require kids to plow through this crap, and then hope to deprogram them using elective coursework is utopian, IMO. It doesn’t work.
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