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I am not a home educator.
So I'll leave it to those of you who are to tell me how close to home this list hits or what else can be added to the list.
1 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by SAMWolf
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- You can't finish canning the pear preserves, because things with 6 or more legs (carefully labled by common and scientific name) are still occupying all the jars.
2 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by Nora
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It is a good start!

Here are some I found on the web (edited)you might be homeschooled if...:

You come to school in your PJ's.
Your biology lab consists of assisting in your sibling's birth.
Your stacks of books to check out is taller than the librarian.
Your PE comes from chasing little toddlers around.
Your school bus is a 9 passenger van.
You consider school work after lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
Your father has ever told the check-out lady at Wal-mart, "We're on a field trip."
Your teacher has ever written your report card on a napkin.
You have to move dirty laundry off your desk before your can start school.
The signatures on your diploma all end with the same last name.
Everyone else in the world is referred to as "Non-homies."
Your first real date is on your honeymoon.
The word 'homework' sounds like an foreign language.
Your yearbook is also your babybook.
A snow day means that you shovel the driveway after you finish your school work.
You enjoy the pastime of watching public school kids walk home from school.
You have to look at the clock to see if you can call your public school friends yet.
You have to decide what year you want to graduate.
The teacher can kiss the principal, and no one thinks it's unusual.
You get to school and the teacher asks you if you've done all your chores.

Russ :)

3 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by kinsman redeemer
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And this link is cute, too.

I found several such lists. Thanks for the fun!

Russ

4 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by kinsman redeemer
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To: SAMWolf
Everyone is a homeschooler who has children; only a few make it a full-time job.
5 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by Old Professer
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My daughter has been investigating home-schooling for her kids, I'm sending her this link.

She went and met her son's so-to-be kindergarten teacher and was alarmed by streaked-and-spiked red hair and 4 inch high-heels. She was terrified of the "whole language" approach to reading. Kid has her priorities right.

6 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by FrogMom
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To: SAMWolf
You Might be a Home Educator If...


7 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by ArGee
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To: SAMWolf
you look at road kill as a possible addition to your collection of bones (this was discussed by friends of ours children, who thought Mrs. Sere_Doc would love it) the parent declined stopping the car minivan and gathering the specimen (thank you God!).

- your kids may never know what to pay for an ounce of dope.(while living in your house)

- your kids will have a worth while education.

- your kids will be able to hold an intelligent conversation with both types of people (young & old).

- your kids will respect you in your aged condition & before.

11 posted on 12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST by SERE_DOC
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You might be a home educator if...

Your kid rips a historian's PhD to shreds in a 25-page paper, prepared in full MLA style, footnoted, with a 11-page bibliography attached, all without a single error in spelling, grammar, punctuation, or factual content--before his 14th birthday.

Your 17-year-old kid gets a 1550 SAT score, aces his GED exam, and gets rejected from 50 different universities for having published all 170 of his thesis rebuttals on his own website, www.who-gave-these-idiots-tenure.com.

17 posted on 09/05/2001 8:43:14 AM PDT by Poohbah
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To: SAMWolf
Thanks for the uplifting post, Sam. I just hope that the children homeschooled or those who have been educated in other schools but have emphatically supportive and questioning parents will become the leaders of the next generation.

Perhaps there is hope.

20 posted on 09/05/2001 9:29:55 AM PDT by EODGUY
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You Might be a Home Educator If...

if your first gradr can read and
make change for a dollar and
tell time with an analog clock

21 posted on 09/05/2001 9:51:35 AM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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You Might be a Home Educator If...

if your first grader can read and
make change for a dollar and
tell time with an analog clock

22 posted on 09/05/2001 9:51:48 AM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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- Someone asks you what grade your child is in and you can't give them an answer. (I love that one!)
25 posted on 09/05/2001 3:47:03 PM PDT by Marie
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