Posted on 04/14/2019 7:36:08 PM PDT by Morgana
Why You Should Home School Your Kids
17 min video
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Although this video was put out by Traditional Catholics the message is still the same.
There are good & plenty of reasons to Home School these days.
I’m guessing that the main four reasons why more do not are:
A. Parents are not educated enough on the academics or have forgotten what they used to know.
B. Parents have to work to maintain their standard of living.
C. Parents are aware that they do not have the right temperment to teach anyone, let alone children, who require lots of repetition of lessons. Many parents are afraid to discipline and want to be the child’s ‘Pal’.
This need to be a’Pal or Cool Mom’ syndrome goes double if divorced.
D. Parent doesn’t want to be bothered, and looks forward to child leaving their presence for X number of hours each weekday.
Deprive teachers of sexual appetizers, ie your kids.
You right on all but mostly
D. Final answer
Adults don't turn away profitable material because of it's source ..... we're just trying to be profitable ..... teach me.
I have found in my own school district that the parents are themselves graduates of the school that taught them they are unqualified to teach.
So what do they do ?
Send their kids to the same place where they weren't educated.
Next best thing......agood, qualified Christian school
We homeschooled for 13 years. We sort of fell into it. Our daughter started in private school at five. By the third grade she was bringing home 2 hours of homework every night. Our whole family life was centered around getting her homework done. She was frazzled; we were frazzled. We went to the school and were told that many of the parents expected large amounts of homework so that their kids could get ahead (many of the students were oriental).
At about the same time our son had turned five. But he was small for his age and we decided to hold him out a year. My wife said that she would work with him during that year and we would start him in kindergarten then next year. At the end of that year, our son was reading, could do addition and was on his way to learning how to play the piano. He was basically ready for second grade. So, what to do? Start him in kindergarten? That would have been terrible.
So we decided to try homeschooling for just one year and see what happened. We pulled our daughter out and never looked back. We joined HSLDA, got into a homeschool group. BIC (Butt In Chair) time was 8:30 Mon. - Thurs. and Friday was field trip day. And they went on some fantastic field trips (a whole post in itself).
We made the commitment one year at a time. In August, my wife and her buds would go to a homeschooling convention and spend 3-4 days buying curriculum and doing lesson plans for the year.
We had them SAT tested every year and by the time they were about 11 or 12 their scores were coming back as “Post High School” in every subject.
Our kids were always swimmers and when they were 14 or 15 they wanted to play high school sports so we let them go to the local private high school for two years and play sports. They basically cruised academically because they were so far ahead.
I could go on about the homeschooling advantages of academics, socialization and leadership but enough is enough (for now).
Bottom line: Both our kids are very successful in their chosen fields and we are very proud of them. Plus, we got our first granddaughter out of the deal last Nov.
Good reasons to homeschool are good reasons to homeschool, regardless of religious affiliation.
This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
Considering the damage being done to young children on the mental, emotional, spiritual, and sometimes physical, level by the public school system, I honestly believe that the country would be better off closing all the public schools and letting parent figure out where to go from there.
There are those who will care and proactively do something, and those who don't, already don't and are already not doing anything.
OK moron I’m a contractor - wife is a social worker We both work full
Time
Our bills are like $9000 a month
you tell us how we stop working and then try to educate our kids
you’re an idiot
I got plenty of engineering knowledge and whatever to teach my kids
but you know what it’s free babysitting service
I used to joke around when they were younger I used to call and pay school a.k.a. preschool and now free school
Furthermore if you’re afraid of the real world a.k.a. what you kids are going to be into after you shelter them their entire lives then you’re preparing them for a world of disaster
Great response. You are a thoughtful person, and wise in ways that cannot be taught, but can be demonstrated.
Life is about choices. Like Dave Ramsey says, “you can have anything you want, but you can’t have everything you want.”
$9000/month in bills shows that the zip code, house, vehicles etc. take priority over being able to educate your children. No need to call others names because you’ve made certain choices.
I have five kids, never went without necessities, and never had half that monthly budget.
I don’t know what you are buying but wow! Maybe you have huge medical conditions bills or something.
Bravo to you. Homeschooling is the best way.
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bttt
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