Posted on 04/06/2013 4:15:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
it all depends on how a child is "bent." different children have different learning styles... some are hands on, some are visual, some audio... some mixed... i like to teach my kids in layers... touching all of the senses... especially in the early to middle school years...
one of the advantages to homeschooling is you can custom your child's education to your child's bent... like having a custom-built home as opposed to public housing...
How about THIS advantage: our boys never fought....Ever.
They all got full ride scholarships also.
Colleges want them because they are more driven.
reminds me of a funny quote:
“My wife and I were also concerned that our children would miss out on the socialization available in the public schools...so once a week we take our kids into the bathroom, cuss at them, push them around, steal their lunch money, and offer them drugs, and that seems to take care of it.”
If you are familiar with the St Louis City public schools you know that they have not been accredited since 2007. They ran through 5 different superintendents in 5 years without any improvement until the state finally took over. They still use massive school busing to achieve racial balance, and even their charter schools do poorly.
Most St Louis county schools are better, but I’m sure not as good as home schooling.
I’m a product of St Louis city schools and it pains me that even back in the ‘80s, I wouldn’t put my own children in them.
Yours isn’t an unusual story.
When you think about the massive waste of human potential, it breaks your heart.
First, I’ve taught and coached in Missouri public schools for over 25 years. My 3 kids have excelled in our local public schools and are fine Christian young people (the real kind not cultural). If we had to send our kids to school in the STL area instead of the heart of the Ozarks; I’d homeschool.
All that being said I must quibble with #5. While the rules vary from state to state, Missouri doesn’t allow homeschool kids to play on public school teams. I believe the state assoc (MSHSAA) requires 80% enrolled attendance.
Will those homeskrooled children find out just how fast a Zamboni with turbo will go???
Mine went to a two room K-8 school. They learned so much listening up a couple grades, plus listening down a grade was great review. My youngest graduates this school next month.
Only if we’re still allowed fossil fuels.
So, if the average homeschooled child spent half an hour each day, for 180 days, studying a particular subject, that student would well exceed the amount of time spent on that subject in any public or private school in the country. So if a child were covering 6 subjects, all the work that would ostensibly take a full day in any school, could be done in three hours. That leaves plenty of time for a child to read about stuff he or she just happens to enjoy, or for music or dance lessons, or volunteer work in the community.
BEST reason to homeschool—
Just listened to Holly Swanson. She’s a supposed expert on Education For Sustainability—The “green” movement in our schools. She says it’s nothing BUT brainwashing and indoctrination. (The “Green” agenda promotes communism. The “Green” agenda IS Humanism.)
She wrote “Training For Treason”(and “Set Up and Sold Out”), a look at Common Core and C-Scope in education going on now in our schools and is trying to sound the alert.
She mentioned that John F’ing Kerry founded “Second Nature” in 1993-a policy of indoctrination in our schools towards communism, with Anthony Cortese’s help.
http://www.secondnature.org/mission/history
I have a lot of research to do on this woman, but she seems to be trying to awaken people to what this “greening” of our schools really amounts to, and being in Georgia, I’m concerned because it seems that our Governor thinks this is a wonderful thing to implement, and I don’t think he knows what the hell is going on—like MOST politicians.
I homeschool my oldest. 7th grade.
My other is 4. He INSISTS that he does work like his brother.
He will even stand in the same chair as his brother is sitting as watch his lessons on the computer over his shoulder. He loved the “pee tag or rhythm” math lesson.
and his preschool lesson taught him the definition of hypothesis a week before his older brother had the definition in Science. The definitions were exactly the same. It was hilarious. The older said it was an easy one to remember because he heard his little brother repeat it for a week. So, moral of the story...the learning goes both ways, lol.
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Sounds wonderful! Our good fortune was a wonderful and affordable private school just down the street; but there was also plenty of homeschooling in our house and the surrounding city resources as well. That's the part every parent can do, even if the kids go to public school. They can still make parenting a teaching mission instead of lounging with frozen dinners and media.
Not all of the responses were glowing. Some thought she was a bit of an arrogant bitch.
What amazes me is that people send there children to the publik skools and then they come home with hours of homework. I hear parents at my office complain about this all the time. The hours they spend on homework they could homeschool.
One of my goals in life is to encourage as many homeschooling families as possible, because it is a big challenge at times. I tell struggling parents to hang in there, it is worth it and one day they will be glad they made the sacrifices. I always tell new homeschool families to get into a good homeschool coop or umbrella group, attend regional curriculum fairs and do not try to go it alone. There are abundant educational resources and people that want to help them and see them succeed.
I also recommend spending the small amount each year and joining HSLDA for the legal protection it provides against over zealous bureaucrats. After all when you homeschool you have joined the radicals and revolutionaries and the statists don’t like that. Also HSLDA is trying to help single parents to be able to homeschool and they are working to help families with special needs children. It’s a great organization.
By the way even if you don’t homeschool and you just want to breath in the air of liberty to restore some hope to your soul; go to a large regional or state wide curriculum fair. You’ll see an abundance of parents with children in tow preparing for their education. It just reeks of freedom, free market capitalism and hope for the American family! It’s absolutely wonderful to think it is driving some liberal somewhere mad.
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We only started homeschooling when our younger two were in middle school. I just hadn’t been ready, before, but at that point we were just tired of schools, even though the schools our kids had been going to were OK. They enjoyed the freedom of homeschooling, and so did we.
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