The Why of Homeschool - new sitcom to treat homeschooling as negative

http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1167&month=53&title=The+Why+of+Homeschool&id=53 ^

[Indrid Cold]

I'm still waiting for the sitcom where public-schooled 18-year-olds can't read. But maybe that should be on the Discovery channel...

[AAABEST]

director Andy Ackerman (Seinfeld, Frasier) produced by Turner Television.

That explains everything for me, no need to watch even one second.

[anniegetyourgun]

Dunno....I've heard Peter Jennings stumble a few times over teleprompter reading. Granted, he did at least graduate from high school....but I think it was in Canada.

[annyokie]

You know us dumb Yanks. Eating everything with a fork gripped in our right hand, you know, while watching telly. ;)

[MattAMiller]

Seems the "professionals" are being exposed for their incompetence everyday.

I don't think professionals could ever hope to do better than a parent with some clue as to what they're doing. A classroom with one teacher with 30 some kids trying to follow some pre-prescribed program on a rigorous schedual just isn't as good as a free flowing program conducted by parents with several children. I don't care how good a public or private school is, I have to think homeschooling is better. Our way of doing things just isn't effective for most kids.

[anniegetyourgun]

There you go again...injecting logic and a reasoned thought process into this discussion....

[farmfriend]

Didn't read this but it mentioned home school so thought I would call you over.

[Tax-chick]

My husband got me the Unabridged for Christmas a few years ago, but the OED is too expensive, even on CD! In my dreams ... and then my kids would win the national spelling bee!

This stuff is such unutterable (blankety blankety blank) pardon my vocabulary lapse, usually I do better.

If this show is "based on reality," are they going to show the part where the kids demand to return to homeschooling after a year in the social cesspool of public school?

[annyokie]

You already took my first choice, girlfriend!

[Tax-chick]

What you said! We never considered sending our kids to any school, public or private. Homeschooling isn't an unfortunate reaction to public school failure ... it is it's own reward, every single day.

[anniegetyourgun]

Then I suppose you have already notice Freeper Annieoakley too?

[redfish53]

The parents are losers...did you ever see The Spelling Bee Girl? Talk about socially retarded...

[Libertina]

I just got back from subbing a Hight School science class. I don't even want to talk about it. Get your kids OUT of public schools NOW. Run, don't walk.

[annyokie]

No I didn't, but we must all be smart gals, and goodlooking too! ;)

[7 x 77]

Question:

Let's say your a traditional Catholic in the Chicago area, shouldn't you be able to find a Catholic school that shares your values and wouldn't that option be preferable to home schooling?

[Carry_Okie]

Oh, for my very own copy of the OED!!!!

23rd edition.

[Tax-chick]

No. Even a good Catholic school is still an institution that takes children away from their parents and siblings all day, substitutes a non-parent primary authority figure, age-segregates children and promotes peer-dependency, is unable to treat each child as an individual and educate him to the top of his individual potential, forces boys to act like girls to succeed, conditions the children to unthinking obedience and regimentation AND costs more than homeschooling, AND requires you to drag your children out in the snow, babies and all, unless you've got a swell unemployed spouse like mine, AND hosts fundraisers in addition to your tuition ...

And can you tell I've been homeschooling for 8 years and read a bunch of John Taylor Gatto?

But seriously, I might consider sending my freak-genius second son to someplace like St. Gregory's Academy (the FSSP boarding school) some day, but on the other hand, I think he's just as likely to achieve his full potential with judicious homeschooling and some early courses at Tulsa Community College.

We don't homeschool because we don't like "the available schools," we homeschool because we DON'T LIKE SCHOOLS!

Deo Vindice,

Xy

[annyokie]

My boys went to Catholic school in Pittsburgh (no experience with Chi) and it was a bad deal. We moved to a more affluent neighborhood and they went to public school with no adverse affects.

They are in public school here in OK and are all A's, Science Fair blue ribbons, et cetera. I can't gripe.

We do have lively discussions at the supper table about (no lie) the dynamics of flight and algebra.

[Eala]

LOL. The fork now goes in whichever hand is more convenient or appropriate at the time, only once a week is dinner before the telly, and in my (long ago) choice of damnyankee wife I was more than happily respectful of the in-laws who came with the package.

But when it comes to the really critical, crucial, issues of life such as choice of dictionaries I always, if possible, refer first to my (inherited) Webster's New Collegiate (1951). At least until the day I come by my own copy of the OED.

[annyokie]

I had a damnyankee husband who ate like a troll, despite all my southern charm urging that, honey, you can cut your meat with the knife not hold it down and rip it to pieces, so I can relate!

I refer to my (inherited) double-volume Webster's for critical spelling matters.