Posted on 11/13/2004 4:04:54 PM PST by Marinefamilyx3
Did you post a pic of your daughter on the Family Table?
My 3:
http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?&collid=73966923506&page=1&sort_order=0
and my other 2:
http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?&collid=88765995506&page=1&sort_order=0
You are very blessed to have a good school district. It gives me hope that there may be good things yet to come to the Public Education System. After many of us homeschoolers pull out of public school we may lose sight of the changes that are happening. For that, I am happy to hear what's going on on the other side of the fence.
When you do your calculations on cost of living, please note that we left Hawaii to afford to take these paths in life. So cost of living has little to do with the choice. You make the choice, then you accomodate.
I'd also like you to note that although we live in KY, we pay Hamilton County, OH almost $3,000.00 a year for my husband to work in Cincinnati (and we never get a dime back). That may slip by you, too.
You wanna set your kids up for success right off the bat? Teach them to read while they're still very young.
My wife read to our son even as an infant. He was three when he said he wanted to be able to read his own stories. So, my wife taught him. It was amazingly easy.
Go to Amazon, and get a book titled Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. I know, it sounds gimmicky, but it works. It takes less than a half-hour a day. The book tells you exactly how to do it.
We never made it through all 100 lessons. About half way through, he just started reading whatever he wanted. Proficiency came with practice.
Of course, you can paint yourself into a corner. When we visited our local elementary school to get ready for first grade, we learned that the class would be spending a great deal of time learning the alphabet. At the time, he was reading a biography of Jefferson.
I had a vision of myself having to go to the principal's office every single day to bail him out. We ended up choosing homeschool, but we've never regretted teaching him to read when he first mentioned it.
The one down side I complain about is their exposure to certain behaviors of other kids whose parents are more lenient than myself.
Well, we in NC may be ranked low as a collective bunch but I assure you that there are outstanding schools here. My kids happen to attend two of them.
I'm not a home schooler, but I disagree with you. (other than commending the homeschoolers)
I live in a small rural area, a county that is in the top 5 for lowest percapita income in the state. One of my close friends homeschools. Her oldest recently became old enough to get her drivers license - after she started college.
OTOH - she understands me perfectly and why I don't home school. Homeschooling has nothing to do with affluence and everything to do with the parents' decisions on what is best for their own children.
We moved from a fairly affluent area to a not so affluent area, because the schools are better here. I knew far more people that homeschooled there, than I know here........the total opposite of your premise.
Homeschool numbers are growing in leaps and bounds and that is great - as long as it is done properly. I'm not a candidate for a homeschooler - I saw my shortcomings and did what I felt best for my child, found a good school district and moved to it.
Now, if we could only get school districts to open their eyes as to why people are keeping their children out via homeschool, private school, or movement - we just may be able to solve the problem.
I respectfully disagree and I'm a homeschooler.
I made a deliberate choice when my child was born that I would stay home. We don't take lavish vacations, we eat at home most every meal, we drive older cars and live in a modest older home. We make every effort we can to stretch a dollar. We are solidly middle class and always have been. We struggle to make ends meet some months, but what's important in our lives is VERY clear. Our family and our child's education comes FIRST!!
My son will be 20 this week, but when I home schooled him in the 5th grade, he had an hour of Bible study everyday. I took the ABeka lessons..Verry, verry good system.
Preschoolers having homework is insane. As a parent I would be complaining to the preschool director.
I'm an 8th grade teacher in an IL district. Our school policy states that middle schoolers should have about 2 hours of homework per school day. With that formula, the student is given one 50 minute study hall and a second 30 minute study hall. That's 80 minutes of in school time to work on homework. My kids should be taking home about 40 minutes of work.
What I usually do, rather than assign them "busy" work to fill in the district policy time, is accumulate the time and have them do something that shows they learned the material rather than showing me they can stay busy.
I won't homeschool my kids. Hubby and I have five college degrees between us. I don't want to school them. I want them to go away in the daylight hours so I can grow thier food and preserve it, clean their rooms and plant flowers, surf the net, knit, sew, talk to my mom.
Call me selfish, I don't care. Our suppertable conversations all begin with "and what did you do at school today?"
Homeschool PING
It is also sad because those that leave the system feel they are powerless over their own school system - yet the left has never been in more of a decline in this country.
Meanwhile how are we to educate all those immigrants? Impossible? Public School education educated a whole generation of Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, etc.
You educate thru school choice.
Yes, I did post a pic at the Family table - the blond with the Bush/Cheney sign is mine.
Your pictures are wonderful!!!!!! I love all "5" of them!!!
As to homeschool vs. public school I admit I get a bit testy with some homeschoolers who claim that ALL public schools are bad and so are parents that send their kids to them. I know there are a lot of bad public schools - it's one of the reasons we decided to move out of Dover when she was only 3.
But there are good public schools and that's one of the reasons we now live in rural Virginia...........the socialist bend Delaware has taken helped that decision, but that is for another thread :)
huh?
Bingo!!!!!!!!
At 6, our daughter can read most things, but still likes to be read to - her favorite thing to do is she read a page to me (or daddy) an I read the next page to her.
At 3 my husband built her a computer all her own - because she had figured out how to delete things from his desktop!!
Homeschool takes on many faces - even with children in public school.
The reason parents homeschool is it is a choice. If you want the schools to get better, open them up, give parents a choice. I guarantee you, the way the schools are set up right now, those immigrants may be better off on their own, than in the system.
Give them school choice. Make the school systems competitive. Make the school systems improve to receive their funding.
and they will learn English at home how? We as a nation need to get our PS system to where it was 2 generations ago.
Does someone need a hug
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