Posted on 10/15/2003 12:59:58 PM PDT by hsmomx3
Several other home schooled children I have encountered over the years had difficulty interacting with the other students in their Sunday School class.
Knowing that a child is homeschooled creates a built-in bias in some people, maybe even you. People put those children on a much higher plane of expectations. These children you've described could be any kid, but you know they're homeschooled so you are subconsciously less tolerant of their problems.
I have never encountered a home schooled child that seem didn't seem to isolate themselves from other children.
Sorry, I don't believe ALL the homeschooled children you've met are like this. What kind of children were the homeschooled ones avoiding? ALL of them, or the obnoxious ones? If it's the latter, I frankly don't blame them.
I admit they were very intelligent but were also very arrogant about their intelligence.
This is a condemnation of arrogant parenting, NOT homeschooling. How often have you met children who were arrogant about their trendy clothing, their privileges, the 'stuff' their parents could afford, or the car their daddy bought for them when they turned 16? Would you condemn the government schools for that behavior, or would you just chalk it up to immaturity and/or their parents?
It's just like the people who come down on Christians who f*ck up in life MORE than the non-Christians.....there's a higher level of expectations about how they should behave so it's criticized more harshly when that expectation is not met.
Huh?? They have no power. They have a love for the things that have intrested them, and that in turn has spurred them to try and succede in what intrested them. They have earned a high degree of respect, in one of their cases world wide the other through out the US, in totally different areas of intrest, but they have no power nor do they seek it, as a matter of fact both are known for helping others try and get as far as they have. One even spends time teaching others his secrets.
They were given the choice to go to school during high school or home school. They chose their own course. Home schooling gave them the opportunity to branch out and explore different options and to excell.
Somebody who is used to the behavior of public or private schooled children would deffinitly see them as different. They behaved and spoke like adults while their counterparts were worried about their social cliques.
Beat you in an argument did they? :) This of course is never found in good publicly schooled children. They are stupid and know their place.
Are these home schooled children be able to cope when they enter the real world?
Doing just fine, thank you for asking.
"Carriers" are military weapons that are used to project the power of one's military across the globe...
Perhaps the child is mildly retarded. Perhaps the parents felt it was better for her to school at home than be ridiculed and have her self esteem destroyed by obnoxious public school brats. Perhaps she was pulled out of public school specifically because she was so far behind. We have to trust parents and give them the authority to make the decisions with their children. If we don't, then we are all just slaves of the state, and the only solution is to take them away before any damage can be done (some here on FR will even argure that's what public schools are doing).
"Several other home schooled children I have encountered over the years had difficulty interacting with the other students in their Sunday School class. I have never encountered a home schooled child that seem didn't seem to isolate themselves from other children."
Homeschooled children are not exposed daily to the rowdy, undisciplined, pent-up public school kids. I wouldn't blame them for avoiding public school kids. They are often treated more as adults than are public school kids, and are not segregated by age like public schools. Herding together some 30 odd kids all of the same age for a critical 12 years of youth is a horrible way to raise children. They need to be exposed to adults, older and younger children. Yes, there are these in public schools, but interaction is extremely limited, and not at all encouraged.
" I admit they were very intelligent but were also very arrogant about their intelligence. Are these home schooled children be able to cope when they enter the real world?"
Better that than letting them become little government brainwashed public sheep. Public schools are teaching children about adult subject matter such as drugs, sex, sodomy, violence, socialism, racism, global environmental gloom and doom at ages before they are even old enough to maturely comprehend or appropriately apply the knowledge. Many are so confused, they often don't know right from wrong. We see regulary in the news horror stories of public school kids gone berserk.
Even if what you say is so, is a little "arrogance" so awful? Seems to me there are much bigger concerns with public school kids, than a little arrogance in some homeschooler. Also, I don't think arrogance is a rarity in public school kids either. If they are intelligent as you say, they will grow out of it, they'll cope just fine.
A minimum of 9 months is usually recommended.
I love it!!
For whatever reason.
"Your honour, only God knows why, out of the blue, this girl decided her life was worth ending. We will simply never know."
This must be a joke.
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