Like hatred of your faith, Global Warming, Anti-American ideas, Socialism and communism are good, and a bundle of other bad things that are poured into your child's head for 8+ hours a day... and YOU LET THEM
After you start home schooling, you can also turn off the TV, throw out the video games, and teach them how to read a book and do things instead of the lowest common denominator education they would get at the local Socialism center.
Please don't tell me your local school is better, or you or your spouse or whatever works as teacher and they aren't like that. Also please don't tell me your brother or sister or Mom are teachers and they are different, they are one person, surrounded by tens of thousands that are the exact opposite.
The amazing thing is many people here go and do things to advance the Conservative Freedom loving Republic with their full effort, and then let their children go off to the other side to learn the opposite of everything they believe every day.
hear, hear... i love the homeschool lifestyle...
Excellent post!
One big advantage of homeschooling is that it allows your children to develop unique skills and character traits that help them stand apart in a crowd. In government-run schools where standardized testing has become more common over the years, it’s much harder for a kid who is out at the far end of the bell curve to make the case that he’s any different than his peers.
Pssst, 4 year degrees suck anyway.
My classmates, the ones that are doing the best are the ones with 2 year degrees and a SKILL.
Homeschooling fits well into that.
I homeschool my kids. It is lots of fun.
No,top colleges want people wth interests and passions. Homeschoolng can facillitate it but is no guarantee.
Bookmarked.
Ping for later, there are so many universities that are going after good home schooled kids, its not funny.
Of interest to homeschoolers.
So why, then, after a parent has home-schooled and shielded their kids from the liberal public indoctrination centers, would they then surrender them to the university liberal indoctrination factories? Even in conservative parts of the country, most have been taken over.
Hilldale college and a scattering of other colleges and universities would not undo the hard work of the parents. But other than that I’m not sure how to solve the dilemma.
I know that a sheepskin is the “ticket” to play. But sheesh.
The university liberal factories seem now to be trolling for the last sparks of brightness as evidenced by the article ....apparently, sadly, in order to either control them or snuff them out.
There must be a better way that freedom loving people can find to educate our young people.
Just food for thought...
Uh oh! Some government school defender is bound to “feel” personally hurt and offended by the “implied” insult to their very existence and going running whining to the moderator demanding that the thread be pulled.
Can’t hurt sensitive “feelings around here’, you see. /s
I was afraid to homeschool my youngest son when he was not flourishing in the p.s. herd. It’s the best thing that happened for him and our family. But, I had to adjust my work, and pretty much dedicate my life to it as the major priority.
It is a family lifestyle and it’s peaceful, sane and good. He ripped through his studies once he reconnected to his own body and mind. He lost himself in the herd. He found himself in homeschool.
You are right about the gadgets. Not much time to waste on video games and other nonsense. I can single handedly fill up twenty five lives with things we need to do and people we need to see. He was easy.
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Not in Texas with it’s Top 10% rule. Top ranking high schoolers get an automatic admission.
Not to rain on your parade, but this article is about getting into college. You think the aforementioned topics are taught any differently in colleges?
This really isn’t quite true. First, it’s Asian kids who are discriminated against most harshly in college application have the toughest competition—against other Asian kids.
Second, SATs and baseline grades from top schools do matter, and rather than degrees from only the top 10 colleges having significant value, there are about 30 colleges for which that is the case. Again, major matters, and for the hard sciences and engineering the traditional environment still holds.
But, home schooling does give kids about a dozen of the best years of their lives back. It tends to foster more independent minded and acting kids who are more interesting, with more interests that they have had the time and freedom to pursue at a high level. It makes them more likely to have mastered a pre-college, if not a college, curriculum before adulthood, which is a big advantage.
These can become advantages for college admissions, and colleges would be crazy not to want them.
My daughter wants to be an elementary school teacher. At age 18, she would make a fine teacher, or student teacher, right now. But she needs a BA or MA to teach. Hence the need to take courses explaining that rats don't like to be electrocuted.
She was accepted at the local state college. Tuition: $7000. Academic scholarship: $1000. She'll be commuting from home and working weekends to pay the remainder.
Would I prefer a Catholic college? Yes. Can we afford it? No. And with Great Depression II coming, there's no way she's going to leave college with debt.
Meanwhile, with 12 years of homeschooling, she's prepared to do battle with the professors, if necessary. I told her to take an F if she has to.