Posted on 09/06/2006 7:18:54 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
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Home School....works everytime it's tried
Home school is growing our next generation of leaders. We have grown two of 'em.
When I get sad and worried, I look to my boys, and I know there is reason for hope!
Future leaders , probably.
Sure, the educated ones will get somewhere.
This Mom and others like her are doing more for the USA than the National Association of Teachers.
I wish I had had her courage - and my boys
probably do too, now.
Home school your kids because kids from gov't schools will need a job someday.
I think that future Americans will be separated into two discrete groups: those who were home educated....and those work for them.
: )
My daughter was home schooled until age 17. At 17, she entered Stanford. Graduated Magna. Now vice president of Microsoft Asia, at 185,000 salary. Age 25.
There is a lot of help on this board in figuring how to do what your heart tells you to do
agree.
Awesome story. I have the highest respect for both homeschooling parents and homeschooling students.
It's a matter of the parents deciding, what is important in their lives. I have come in contact with a lot of Home Schooled Children, and they seem to be normal, happy, and excited about life. Viva Las Home School
I lied just a tad as Julia will be 26 next month : )
I guess these boys who work with their dad in his workshop will actually know how to measure something...a dying art in the government school system.
The dirty little secret is that homeschooled children score at the top on all forms of testing. Most public school teachers despise home schoolers.......wonder why?
Well . . .
Here in my state we hear that some unscrupulous public school officials encourage parents of problem children to teach them at home. It makes it so much easier for the school district, you see. The problem is that the pupils who hit other kids, threaten teachers with death, steal and cheat, are often the products of parents who couldn't care less whether the kid learns anything or not.
A few years ago, one of our state legislators sponsored legislation that would have made it really hard to home school. His reason: "Some (a very small minority) of home schoolers are not getting a decent education." Talk about a self-fulfilling strategy.
Thankfully, many of our public school officials seem supportive of home schooling (and the bill was defeated, for now).
Having a great job is wonderful. I don't mean to be crass, but I'm hoping that she doesn't forfeit marriage and children for a high-profile career. Nobody puts their employer's name on their tombstone....
Research (the National Marriage Project out of Rutgers -- http://marriage.rutgers.edu/ ) shows that those who marry between 23 and 27 have the highest level of marital satisfaction....
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