Meet Five Homeschoolers

LFET ^ | Isabel Lyman

[Sir Gawain]

Kyle Williams, the same person that moderate freepers tried to run off of this site after he signed up to defend his article that got posted here. I think they were intimidated.

[Fred Mertz]

"I was dying to get published in print or on a popular web site. I emailed my stuff to (editor) Joseph Farah with no expectations of being a columnist. But we talked for several days, and then I talked with the commentary editor. The rest is history," explains Kyle of how he became the site's youngest writer.

Wasn't this kiddo a FReeper? Until you know what happened....I think he was rightfully critical of Bush.

[Sir Gawain]

Kwilliams is his screen name.

[Fred Mertz]

Okay. Thanks.

[moyden]

Educrat thugs despise homeschooling.

[Carry_Okie]

Wid, ...is seventeen. Last school year, for instance, Wid spent his mornings studying biology, grammar, Algebra II, and American literature.

About the same curriculum my daughter uses, except that instead of American Lit she just got done with Herodotus and is now working on selected readings in Thucidides.

She just turned ten.

[Izzy Dunne]

Hey Moyden - you got a name for the fourth one from the left - front row?
He's got a bit too much chin showing - may be an attitude problem.

[Kwilliams]

Thanks for the ping...I didn't realize she wrote this article.

[moyden]

Being an educrat, this one is dreaming of the day when he is loading those evil homeschooling moms onto railroad cars.

[Fred Mertz]

Homeschooler ping.

[Movemout]

Bravo!

[SLB]

BTTT

[valkyrieanne]

This sounds nice, but probably wouldn't work for us. We don't have a big family; we live in an area where there are very few homeschoolers, and aren't interested in joining a fundamentalist church or homeschool group. The "secular" homeschool group near us has very few children over 6th grade (they send their kids to school as they get older.) Our kids are somewhat reclusive & not into sports.

Please don't throw bricks, but the "socialization" issue *is* a big deal for us - I'm not saying it is for everyone - but if our kids homeschooled for high school they most likely would have few or no friends.

[TxBec]

BTTT

p.s. "You go, Kyle!"

[CWRWinger]

Homeschooling also allowed me to practice my religion unimpeded by school rules and ignorant faculty members," she says.

I like that quote.

[ConservativeDude]

Did you design the classical Greek component of your young daughter's curriculum?

[Carry_Okie]

Did you design the classical Greek component of your young daughter's curriculum?

Yes.

It was built on a selection of library books about the development of Mesopotamia, India, Biblical readings on the Middle East, more library books on Egypt, extensive discussions about the Phoenicians (repeat after me, cedar trees, cedar trees, cedar trees) leading to the Iliad and Odyssey, thence to Herodotus. All along the way were discussions of geography, economics resources (cedar trees, topsoil, rivers, quarries, mines, etc.), and technology, and how they related to success in business and war. Also discussed at length was the "fat dumb and happy" principle: how that leads to the demise and conquest of a society.

The kids LOVED they Odyssey and Herodotus, but Thucidides is proving to be a little much. Smaller bites. I don't think I'm going to dwell on the philosophy of antiquity at this time, preferring to stay with architecture, economy, political events, and technology. We'll come back to philosophy when they are more mature and the historical context is more complete.

[ConservativeDude]

AMAZING!

I think that is wonderful.

Would you care to share a book list or anything you have in printed form? If not, I certainly understand. But one can ask, right?

[Carry_Okie]

I don't have one, sorry.

It's been catch as catch can. I might be able to go back through the kids' notes some time. We'll see about that when we dig out of the paper pile...