Posted on 09/14/2007 5:40:01 AM PDT by cinives
ping
beat me to it ;-)
We are planning to homeschool. Had our first dispute about it last night. I was watching Barbarians II, which is an awesome History Channel series, and said it would be great to burn to a CD for homeschooling. Lots of battles and blood; my wife did not approve. She said middle school level, not elementary. I thought 5th grade would be right for the boys anyway.
1. Homeschoolers usually dodge many of the quack teaching methods popular in “teacher education”.
2. Homeschoolers usually dodge incompetent/uncaring teachers or as Bobby Fisher put it “teachers are jerks”.
3. Homeschoolers usually dodge many of the excesses of political correctness.
4. Homeschoolers usually dodge the secularism of public schools and can speak freely of the Bible, God, and Christian philosophy.
Women just don't understand a man's need for gore. Or a boy's.
It's not her fault, it's just the way their wired, apparently.
In the interests of family harmony, you might try another great series in the meantime - Ken Burns’ DVDs on the Civil War. It is absolutely awe inspiring, and has less of the gore. Stay away from “Glory”, however, until the kids are a lot older.
You are absolutely correct, but she probably had a word limit ...
The other advantage it missed was that if you find a certain curriculum is unsuitable, you can switch whenever you want. The “curriculum director” is just a heartbeat away :)
Yeah, a good one, huh ?
Definitely, the Ken Burn’s DVD’s. Check out Barbarians II. They teach about the dark ages very well, in my opinion, through four hour long shows on the Vandals, the Saxons, the Franks (and I haven’t seen the 4th so I don’t know what tribe it is). It is bloody though, lot’s of court intrigue, betrayal, war, and the like . . . with professors talking in between the dramatic scenes.
Home school bump.
I’ve never seen The Barbarians - I will check it out because it’s one area of European history that I’ve never studied in any depth. Is there a Barbarians I ?
“Institutionalizing” children is a good way of putting it. There is no reason a first grader should be “chained” to their desk for hours and hours a day, when the entire day’s lessons could be done much more quickly with an adult paying more attention to them 1 on 1. Less pressure, more time to play.
Oh come now - how else can we cause ADD/ADHD/Bipoar if we don’t deny young children the ability to run around in the sunshine and play ? The pharmapsych industry would collapse.
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http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=76105
It looks like Barbarians I goes through the Vikings, Goths, Mongols, and Huns.
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) told the Wall Street Journal that this fall she plans to home educate the couple’s two youngest children “with the help of a tutor.”
I guess they don’t want their kids to associate with the “back woods redneck” types in their new neighborhood.
If you read only one Moore book, read "Better Late than Early." And goodness, you can get Raymond and Dorothy Moore's The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook for a dollar. Friends. You owe yourselves to look into this.
Heh. I read that he hasn't done a d@@# thing for the town there.
“...The Burns family, of Alaska, set out on a 36-foot sailboat this summer to travel the world for three years...”
Now this is an advantage of homeschooling over private schools. For the tuition/expenses ($5K or more per student) paid for a private school the whole family can take a nice field trip. In our case it was not so adventurous as the Burns family but we did do some educational touring and backpacking.
Thanks Mrs. Don-o. We will look at them. I was a complete bookworm when I got the hang of reading between 1st and 2nd grade, though, so I’m not going to buy it though if he says that is too early!
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