Posted on 01/11/2011 8:12:05 AM PST by markomalley
I would, of course, need a grant to make a complete study, but my initial projections put the number of well-educated children in the US at ... approximately two million.
So we have at least 2 million children getting a good education compared to those in the public schools.....
In Atlanta today kids from all the school systems—private as well as public—are taking yet another snow day. My home-schooled daughter, meanwhile, is sitting at her computer studying algebra and writing an essay. Thanks to technology, wife and I also do most of our work from home, so why shouldn’t she?
ping
The Prussian model employed brainwashing techniques to transform 94% of their children into docile factory hands and cannon fodder. 4.5% of the "talented and gifted" kids received better education, to serve as the higher-functioning servitors of the state, the doctors, lawyers, teachers, and pastors. 1.5% of the kids, typically the children of the existing ruling class, got traditional, tutorial educations.
Well, our team has 4% of the school-age population. Their team, 1.5%. Our team also tends to like children more, and to have more of them. Do the math -- and the future looks bright!
That’s the ONE thing that my children don’t like about homeschool. No snow days. I did give them one snow day when we got our first big snow so that they could go sledding all morning.
Of course, on a cold snowy day, my oldest daughter does love cuddling on my lap to get help with her math work. Earlier, she was teaching her 4 year old sister how to crochet. I love homeschool!
These kids will be the core of our future leaders.
I have two that are, and I guarantee they’re getting a better education than they would have. Homeschool is not for everyone, but it’s yet another alternative to the indoctrination and propaganda at the Federal-government-run schools.
At least two million future leaders and producers. It’s a start.
Good news, homeschool ping
“indoctrination and propaganda”
Not only that but the crappy teaching methods that take 8-9 hours then they have to do homework besides. My kids don’t get snow days but hey they only do 5 hours on a long day. They are so far ahead of public school it’s funny.
I want a bumper sticker that say’s: my home school student could teach your honor student.
Public school is a joke and a waste of money.
These are our children, they don’t belong to the state. We are given the job by God, to raise them to be responsible truthful adults. As loving parents, why should we ship them off for 8 or 10 hours a day to be influenced by strangers and then be saddled with the task of correcting the ideas of Evolution, Homosexuality and Environmentalism that they were exposed to all day. This is akin to throwing them in the ceptic tank in the morning, pulling them out in the afternoon, washing them off and then throwing them back in the next morning.
We pulled our son from government schools in California after he finished 2nd grade and we have never looked back. He is now in 7th grade. We use Abeka Academy corriculum. Excellent accredited Teachers are on DVD in a classroom setting, teaching every subject from Bible to Science. It costs a little over $1 thousand a school year and worth every penny.( I wish we could get vouchers for property tax payed to government schools). A.C.E. is also a good christian corriculum and is less expensive. But Abeka better suits our needs.
The income level of parents was not an appreciable factor in how home-schooled students performed, with children from poorer households (incomes under $35,000) scoring in the 85th percentile, and those from wealthier homes (income over $70,000) scoring in the 89th percentile.
But a little statistical analysis that a homeschooler would appreciate. The fact that homeschooled kids from poor homes do as well as from richer ones may be due not to the fact that homeschooling overcomes poverty (though it surely does to a degree), but to the fact that choosing homeschooling reduces family income because one parent likely does not have a second job.
Basically, the choice may cause the “poverty” as much as the choice overcomes its effects.
But I salute all the homeschooling kids and families out there. You’re more heroic than any ordinary government employee.
It costs a little over $1 thousand a school year and worth every penny.( I wish we could get vouchers for property tax payed to government schools).
I said the same thing the other day but then some very smart FRiends reminded me that if they gave any kind of tax bennies, it will open the government to put their nose into the program more than they are already. The 1,000 bucks paid with no tax breaks or vouchers is worth having the government stay out of homeschooling.
I think our curriculum cost around $700 a year. We spend about 5 month’s picking it out thought.
I agree about debrainwashing them. I had to spend hours just showing my kids the truth after they would come home from public school. I am still cleaning the B.S. they were taught out 3 years later.
Thanks for the reminder. You are absolutely correct.
That's what makes me wonder about the tax status of churches. I know that churches are constitutionally exempt but if they were not would there be more sermons preached about the utter moral depravity of almost everything the government does?
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