Replies

We taught our kids to walk, talk, feed and dress themselves, how to drive a car, mow a lawn, change oil in cars, etc. When they were in school we taught them reading, writing, math, English, how to do research papers, science fair experiements, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, history, geography, civics. My husband is a chem. engineer and he taught them a lot of physics, chemistry, calculus, algebra, geometry, etc.

They went to public school, but every evening we spent about three hours with the kids at the kitchen table "enriching" their education. They went to school for the interaction with other kids. They learned most of their academics at home.

Right on buffyt!

Dr. Mary Lynn Collins, a professor at the Fischler Graduate School of Education at Nova Southeastern University, worries that home-schooled kids don't get all of the experiences they need.

''These kids miss out on an important human-socialization factor that is not there whether you are learning alone or with your siblings,'' she said. ``Home-school is teaching a child to be by one's self in a world where we need leaders.''

All the experiences they need? School is for education, not socialization. Children can get socialization by going outside in the evenings and weekends, playing games, going to the mall with friends, playing sports, going to birthday parties, etc, etc.

In government schools, they'll learn how to be politically correct, how not to offend anyone, be exposed to Britney Spears lookalike whore teenagers, drugs and smoking, incompetent people as teachers and administrators and the fear that the SCHOOL might say that their kid is ADD/ADHD and needs ritalin.

Government schools are nothing more than indoctrination centers.

They went to school for the interaction with other kids. They learned most of their academics at home.

That is quite an indictment of public education when those who are not 'professional educators' do most of the teaching which others are being paid to do.