Posted on 01/28/2006 7:49:24 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Deschooling is the process where many of the bad socialization experiences are "cleansed" from a child who is making the transition from public/private schools into a homeschooling program.
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Did you ever wonder why young kids are so eager to learn stuff, and public-schooled teenagers have to be bribed / threatened / cajoled?
Uh, because they've reached puberty and are essentially hormones in over-priced sneakers?
Indeed. My son is mildly autistic, and we would never consider putting him into the generic school system. He's quite smart, and would soon become bored and disinterested with the pace.
I would encourage you to read, read, and read some more about the process. It's not as hard as you might suspect at first, and your child will be the better for it if you spend more time with him.
That's Montessori in a nutshell. "Follow the child." Although, to be fair, the Montessori philosophy is to factor in the kids' interest, pace of learning, etc. into the lesson plan, not to operate without one.
I think you're confusing cause with effect.
And who can say that the public schools are failing?
They are succeeding beyond the dreams of the progressive Leadership.
We are all still working on jumping up and on eating pillows.
Just imagine.....learning w/o ritalin pushers, homosexual pushers, Marxism pushers, "diversity" pushers, "sensitivity" pushers, destruction of boys' aspirations. No wonder there is so little time devoted to core subjects such as grammar, math, history, science. The education system in USA has descended into and has become racketeering.
http://www.homeschoolutah.org/pages/pastandpresent.htm
Many U.S. Presidents were home schooled,
among them:
George Washington, 1st President, 16th
taught by his mother, father, and brother
John Quincy Adams, 2nd President
accompanied his father to France at 11
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, mother of John Quincy
was taught by her clergyman father and in visits to her cultured grandparents
who had an extensive library
James Madison, 4th
taught by his grandmother until age 12
Zachary Taylor, 12th
taught at home by a tutor
Millard Fillmore, 13th
attended school for short periods; studied the Bible and a hymn
book at home (those were the basic texts of that time)
James Buchanan, 15th
learned arithmetic and bookkeeping in his father’s store
Abraham Lincoln, 16th
taught by his stepmother
Andrew Johnson, 17th
apprenticed to a tailor, learned to read at 18
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
taught by private tutor, at 19 was sent on the Grand Tour where
he learned a few languages
Woodrow Wilson, 28th
taught at home by his father in a home full of books, in the company of cultivated minds,
until he entered college; didn’t learn to read until age 11
"What need was there to read when I could spend hours
listening to others read aloud?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
taught at home by a governess
Other Founding Fathers
Benjamin Franklin
six months of schooling at age 8; worked in father’s candle shop
at 10, father taught him to love good books, at 16 his first
essay was published
Alexander Hamilton, statesman, politician
taught by his mother and a clergyman, worked in a general store
from 12 – 16, then entered college
Patrick Henry, Revolutionary leader
informally taught reading, arithmetic, Latin, Greek ancient history
by his father
"Give me Liberty or give me Death."
George Mason, Revolutionary statesman
taught by his mother, occasionally tutored, studied law from an uncle who had
a library of 15000 volumes
Other Famous Non-Schoolers
Ansel Adams, photographer
". . . had difficulty adjusting to traditional schools. His father decided to teach him at home, and the next
years were extremely fruitful. Learning experiences were always tapped into the young boy's intrinsic
interests and ranged from playing the piano to visiting an exposition.
Years later, after he had become internationally known for his creative photography, Adams paid tribute to
the courage of a father who was willing to take risks, to listen to that "different drummer" unique to each
child. In his autobiography, Adams wrote:
'I am certain he established the positive direction of my life that otherwise, given my native hyperactivity,
could have been confused and catastrophic. I trace who I am and the direction of my development to
those years of growing up in our house on the dunes, propelled especially by an internal spark tenderly
kept alive and glowing by my father.'"
- Reader's Digest
Louisa May Alcott, author Little Women
educated by her father
Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights leader
home schooled by her father
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
no interest in formal studies; taught by his talented mother
William Jennings Bryan, orator, statesman
until age 10, taught my his mother who stood him on a small
table to recite his lessons
Pearl Buck, author, Nobel & Pulitzer prizes
taught by her mother until she started formal school at 17
William F. Buckley, political columnists
taught at home by parents and tutors, father taught him politics
at the dinner table
Andrew Carnegie, steel manufacturer
Refused to go to school at age five so his parents kept him home. An uncle read
to him out loud. After three years he went to school, but quit a 13, later to
become one of the world’s richest men.
Charles Dickens, author, A Christmas Carol
couldn’t afford school; "passions for reading were awakened by his mother" who
also taught him English and later, Latin
Thomas Edison, inventor of light bulb, phonograph
When the teacher called him "addled," Edison’s mother told him that her son had "more sense in his little
finger than you have in your entire body." She took him out of school and taught him herself, making learning
fun for him. She bought him books of experiments; then he went off on his own. Later, he hired a staff of
educated scientists to work on the electric bulb, finally firing them all and figuring it out himself.
Robert Frost, poet, Pulitzer prize winner
disliked school so much he became physically ill; what schoolwork
he did was done at home until he passed the entrance exams
and entered high school.
General Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War
taught by his mother until 13, then tutored; entered West Point with highest entrance
exams ever reported
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
"Some years we went to school. Other years we stayed at home and Grandma taught us."
"On some days she gave me a set of plants to analyze; on others, she gave me a description and sent
me out to the woods and meadows to collect examples, say, of the 'mint family.' , , , She taught me
to read for the sense of what I read and to enjoy learning."
"Grandma . . . . seldom took more than an hour a day and left me . . . much time on my hands while
other children were in school.
One of Margaret's oldest friends told her in later years, "In my house I was a child. In your house
I was a person."
- Larry M. Arnoldsen, "On Human Learning," UHEA Newsletter, April 1991
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, Little House on the Prairie
Brigham Young, Mormon colonizer, founder of 200 towns and villages
11 days of formal education
I think you're confusing cause with effect.
So, home schooled kids don't reach puberty?
In my years of teaching and time with my own 2 kids, I've encountered about 20 or so homeschooled children (either in school, church or sport teams) About 1/2 seemed to be receiving excellent educations. The remainder ranged from grade level to big Springer fans.
The reports I've heard from FR are those of parents who are very involved with their kids and providing top-notch educations either at home, at a private or public school. Wish there were more of them out there. All kids would be better off with involved parents.
Cue the chorus of they are still better off than the public school kids........
I'm a big suporter of home schooling... but this deschooling drivel is a riducous excuse to goof off if you ask me, and sounds like some liberal way of home schooling.
Kids today aren't pressured, what a joke, try being a kid in Africa and then tell me about pressure.
Of course they do. But the ones I know aren't like the morons you describe.
We homeschooled 5th through 12th grade and our son is now away at college. We were not unschoolers but we weren't school-a-homer people either. I chose my own curriculum and most of my time was spent directing my son's choice of books and discussing their content with him.
I can understand the need to de-tox from school, I think we did that the foirst year, all we formally studied was English, Nath, History and Science. History was mostly biographies and science was lots of hand's on activities. We did lots of field trips!
Kalee
PS. Our son applied to 4 colleges/universities and was accepted by all of them. He received scholarship offers from 2.
If they're teens, then by definition they're morons.
Yeah, maybe homeschooling is not right for your kids.
"You only see and understand the extend of the difference between home school and group school when you experience it. The thing that would block most parents from homeschooling, though, is that you have to actually give your life over to it. It can not be one of many chores - like doing homework. It becomes a lifestyle."
Well said! I advise people who are new to homeschooling and I always point out the time and energy it will take. You will not be a successful homeschooler unless you are willing to make a serious committment to it.
If I had kids, then it would be boarding school. Someplace far, far away.
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