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To: wintertime

There is some truth in here.

Children need supervision and discipline. Many public schools don’t over good structure, discipline...don’t challenge the children.

The worst case of poor home schooling was with a very very bright kid who had parents who must have believed in ‘un-Schooling’...the idea that the child should be permitted to set his/her own pace, be allowed to pick and choose what to study, when to study, how much depth to get into a topic, etc. As a result, if the child was interested - the child did well. BUT - if the child wasn’t interested...the child did CRAPPY. When the child became a young adult - he really wasn’t competent to work in a standard work environment, because he wasn’t used to ‘structure’...and he had a mediocre to poor record of classes at a junior college..... He basically needed a “RESET” - and a chance to start over with REAL structure...but who would give that to him....and how would he get it?


86 posted on 01/23/2017 11:53:23 PM PST by Vineyard
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To: Vineyard
It is very likely that this unschooled chid would have faired far worse in government school. Think of the prison protection gang (oops! “Clique”) that would have taken him in and made them their friend. Instead of junior college it would have been to a real hard core prison.

At least this young adult did go to junior college. At some point people are responsible for their own life path. Hopefully, he will take a good look around him and push the reset button we all own.

88 posted on 01/24/2017 5:48:05 AM PST by wintertime (tStop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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