If I knew how to Photoshop I'd make it "Closed for the Season"
Posted on 03/15/2020 1:06:19 PM PDT by Libloather
With the COVID-19 virus closing schools in China, South Korea, Italy, and the United States, parents are having to make a sudden and unexpected change in their children’s education. Most often, it means shifting education into the home.
This learning at home looks different in different places. In Hong Kong, the government ordered 800,000 students to take what the Wall Street Journal calls “a crash course in digital learning.”
In New York City, parents are already seeking out homeschooling resources that fit their children and their families in preparation for any school closings.
The freedom of parents to choose the kind of education that’s best for each child is something we’ve been advocating for more than 35 years.
Whether a child is facing bullying, a challenging medical condition, or a unique family situation (such as frequent military reassignments), learning at home can provide an immediate and customized solution. And homeschooling doesn’t have to be a stop-gap measure. In fact, millions of students have discovered how home education empowers them to thrive.
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Teaching Kids at Home Due to Coronavirus? Homeschooling Moms Share Their Tips
We found the silver lining in this.
Why? Look the friggin numbers by age.
In K-12 school age kids Cov-19 illnesses are next to non-existent.
I get homeschooling. Do it for the right reasons, not by making Cov-19 an excuse, lending irrational credibility to a largely non-existent cause. Even with regular flu, deaths by school age lids are lowest by age group, and way lower with Cov-19.
A Quick, Teacher-Created Guide To Temporarily Homeschooling Your Kids
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/quick-teacher-created-guide-temporarily-091025650.html
We home schooled 30 years ago before it was cool.
Back then it was mostly religious folks who didn’t want the secular crap indoctrination.
In our case it was just that we wanted our kid to get a quality education & learn to think for herself - critically and independently. Neither of which comes from going to public school, then or now. Success on both counts!
To those with young children, don’t be apprehensive, teaching a child to read phonetically is really easy. Kids who learn that way are generally voracious readers.
Probably the number one reason for homeschooling.
Your kid is a dork and can't hack it and cries a lot.
Whatever it takes to get parents to understand school is the petri dish for socialism
From what I read, Ohio could be shut down for the rest of the year. Colleges may be following as well.
Any homeschooled kid I’ve run across was amazingly smart and very well grounded. They all seemed to have a plan for their future. Impressive.
If I knew how to Photoshop I'd make it "Closed for the Season"
“From what I read, Ohio could be shut down for the rest of the year.”
“Could be” - so claimed the idiot governor of Ohio who, WITHOUT FOUNDATION, claimed there would be over 100,000 Cov-19 cases in Ohio,
Yep, that’s the one.
No. Even a good thing based on a lie is not a good thing. The lie remains perpetuated after all is over due ONLY because of shifts people made due to the lie.
While this may force some to look at this option, in the long run, they may end up converting them to those that do it for the right reasons.
Now this is not a bad thing.
Wrong!!!
The dork kids (your words not mine) are being bullied because they are not in lockstep with the indoctrination and dumbing down of the system. The other kids don’t like it when other students are actually learning while making them realize that they are inferior in their study habits.
https://babylonbee.com/news/parents-worried-theyll-have-to-raise-their-own-children-as-government-schools-shut-down
It takes a devastating event to give parents the freedom to have a choice in how their kids are taught.
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