Posted on 05/14/2010 12:23:51 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
#1) Remove your child from public school
Home school
Ha! That’s exactly what I was going to write! :-)
We’re homeschooling our three kids, FWIW.
Encourage them to read for the sake of reading. Recommend books to them. The trouble with schools is that so much of the lesson plan is indoctrination and “mental floss” of some form or another.
Homeschool. Keep them out of the typical public sports like soccer. Teach them yourself. Take them and do things.
You two beat me to it...remove your children from the clutches of public school and home school them. Or, a well chosen private school might be an option.
Flee government schools.
Just WHY is homeschooling “impractical for millions of families”?
If it’s a priority, you’ll make it happen.
You can tell what you value by what you prioritize.
Free time?
Wife’s career?
Second income to support your lifestyle?
Cable TV?
Adult toys?
Expensive vacations?
or, homeschooling your kids.
“#1) Remove your child from public school”
If this is practical, then do so; however, this is not always possible and when it isn’t, do as I (and the lady in this story) do: talk with your kids, show them the truth and be sure that your kids questions their teachers!
I was called to the school more than ten times (that’s how I knew I was doing a good job) to discuss my daughter’s refusal to accept the teacher’s point of view on things. During the last meeting, I asked the Principal if he wanted mind-numbed followers or students that wish to learn and really find the truth. He didn’t answer and I haven’t been called back to the school.
My daughter has a 104 in that class! She knows their answers, but always asks for clarifications and additional details. Other kids have started asking more questions in class too - she said the class has much more “conversation” about the history book and less “reading” of it!
You could buy good books for the kids and make them write you book reports or hold “saturday” classes for an hour or two to ingrain a love of freedom and real facts about history and things.
I want to see cooperative homeschools.
Why can’t I be paid to homeschool other peoples kids too? Just a few should be OK.
I believe this is an insidious way of muddying things up...”
That is exactly the reason. They do not want children to learn easily.
Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive but impossible to enslave.....................
Homeschooling is good and I have personally been associated with some of the best products. One of my scouts was a twelve grade homeschoooler and National Merit Scholar.
To say an average mother is capable of doing a better job of educating than the schools system is a stretch. Many can but for many the kids will not be better off.
My view is that a proper course is to parallel teach. Follow the classes closely and implement and strengthen as required. Develop library skills,surfing skills, testing skills, political awareness skills ans interest and fun skills. All of the above strengthen and counter weakness.
The kid will be an adult and in the real world. To be kicked out into the world after a sheltered and unprepared for life will be a real shock. I’ve had first hand bad experience with scouts like that too. The realization dawns that part of life was missed. It can be a real problem with a teen.
“Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive but impossible to enslave.....................”
which is bad business for democrats.
There are no laws opposing private tutors, are there?
I don’t see how your proposal falls outside of that definition.
And yes, there are plenty of homeschool co-ops around.
We have “math nights”, etc, amongst the folks that homeschool.
Frustration is the proper response. There's a reason why multiplication tables are MEMORIZED: it's because, like addition and subtraction of single-digit numbers, they're one of the raw building blocks of higher math.
Eeesh.
Feeding my children is a priority in my home.
Homeschooling is very commendable, but I find that homeschoolers tend to make the rest of us feel like bad parents.
Other kids are drawn to my sons...if I teach them properly (after I explained taxes to my six-year-old, his response was, “But that’s STEALING, Mom!”) perhaps they can actually help lead other children to the truth. Like I did in public school.
Do you have to be vigilant? Of course. Is it something that can be done properly, even if both parents have to work just to meet the house payment? Absolutely.
Is it legal for you to find someone who already is homeschooling & pair up with them? If you have to work- can you pay another mother or dad to homeschool your kid? Is that legal?
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