Pros? Enclosed environment, freedom of move wherever, time is also a freedom, as well as dress, so many things that you don't have to worry about. It's wonderful. |
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So at least a couple of people on this forum have said they are/were home schooled, so I got curious about the topic. Anyone can respond, btw, doesn't have to be these particular people. |
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Pros? Enclosed environment, freedom of move wherever, time is also a freedom, as well as dress, so many things that you don't have to worry about. It's wonderful. |
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Last edited by no-Name; 03-03-2009 at 03:35 AM.
True, their education is better. But they lack the social skills of us, which is an important skill to have in the real world. My knowledge of calculus doesn't get used on a day to day basis, my ability to talk to people and charm pretty girls like Mes Tarrant comes in useful every day. |
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Yes, but homeschooling can teach you a lot of things about how to be a better person, because you're given a lot of time to be introspective and figure out who you are. Not that you don't get that in public school, but at least you won't be more easily driven by public sway and think silly thoughts like "sex is everything". *cough* |
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Who sez u charm me? |
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Last edited by Mes Tarrant; 03-03-2009 at 04:23 AM.
Home schooling does have a tendency to make people introverted, but it's only one small part of the equation. The parents who do the right thing by ensuring the child has plenty of interests where they can meet other kids will ensure that it doesn't have too much of a negative impact on their social skills. I've known some children of these sort of parents and most of them have excellent social skills. |
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You quit school at 17? What did you do afterward to continue your education? |
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I had a friend who was home schooled. His teacher came for a few hours every day, he had a shorter day than us public schools kids. But there is no track team, prom, keggars, senior trip, box socials... |
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Yeah, I was tired of turning up to school for 5 hours a day to be taught nothing but crap. The only reason for continuing would have been to go to university, which I certainly didn't want to do - partly for the same reason! So I just read books on whatever subjects I was interested in. I tried to get complete sets of book-courses when I could find them, preferably from before the 60s, since almost everything was better made back then. |
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I was homeschooled, and enjoyed every minute of it. My mother was my teacher, and admittedly she didn't do a very good job after about the seventh grade, but don't tell her I said so. I had a lot of freedom, was allowed to do my work whenever I wanted. Technically (in Georgia at least) I was supposed to work 4.5 hours a day, but I usually got my work done in 2-3, and then did the next days work. I skipped right over kindergarten, did two grades in one year more than once, and then fell behind a bit in eighth grade due to a lack of self-motivation, since by then I was mostly teaching myself from the curriculum. |
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I have taught home school, and I think it is okay as long as the kid is interacting with lots of other kids on a very regular basis. Otherwise, you end up with somebody who goes through life feeling and therefore acting like a space alien. Social skills cannot be learned in the way history and math can. They have to be developed over a very long period of time, preferably during the developmental years. |
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Oh, how I envy you home schooled people. I don't really know what homeschooling is like, but I really loathe the current school system that I'm in right now. With all the grades and GPA, how everyone thinks that this number means you're "smart" for some reason. My calculus teacher seems to get inflamed over everything and is a total let down. When asked a question she condescendingly answers it and seems to yell at us... But of course that's just one teacher. Why do schools crush all the joy in learning? |
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Last edited by TimeStopper; 03-03-2009 at 05:15 AM.
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
I am home schooled. |
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Last edited by hellohihello; 03-03-2009 at 05:49 AM.
if you can read this then you are about to be punched
<---- Here is a 'get well soon' cactus for you, hellohihello. I hope all works out for you soon. |
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A 'get well soon' cactus... rofl |
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I would LOVE to be able to homeschool my 4 kids. Mostly, I want to for religious reasons. I think about the story of Lot who moved into a district of Sodom and Gomorah. The people did not worship God as they should have and were very carnal. Lot moved there with a LOT of people, but only he and 2 daughters came out of it alive... and his daughters were so warped by local thinking that they thought it was okay to get their dad drunk and have sex with him so he'd have more kids. |
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Yeah large classes is a problem. But it's much worse in other countries. Like here, in Korea, all classes are about 40 kids each. There are 1200 kids in my school, and I am the ONLY foreign teacher, for ALL of them. And I hear schools in China can have something like 60 kids in a class, where they're all packed like sardines. |
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I can only comment about my country's public school system and, of course, it has flaws like anything else has. However, I think homeschooling isn't possible here, we don't even have a word for it lol. The main thing people have against our school system is that it's trying to teach the kids too many things. And the social aspect, it's VERY different. For example, there aren't such divisions to cool kids, outcasts, nerds etc. Even the most introverted people aren't shunned. |
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That's not necessarily so. In 3rd grade I had moved to a new town and was incapable of making friends and not for lack of trying. Things were good before I moved, but for some reason it seemed like everyone my age had better things to do. On top of that, I had a vindictive teacher who made my life hell. I'd say, somewhat along the lines of what Mes said, that I didn't truly develop the ability to be sociable until I was in college. I found ways to enjoy high school and I did have some great classes (We The People changed my life, thank you Mr. Johnson) and some great opportunities, but with the way things have progressed, I highly doubt the high school I went to will be the same one my (hypothetical) kids will attend. |
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