Homeschooling

[LadyOfMystery]

Homeschooling is different for everyone because the parent is the teacher. So how well your experience is, usually depends on how well adjusted your parent is with it. Mine were easy going and let me learn at my own pace.

 

[Luther073082]

No I wasn't homeschooled and I would be unlikely to do so unless the public schools in the area where bad and the private schools where too expensive or too wrapped up in heterodox theology.

Its pure and simple, I'm not a paranoid person and I'm not paranoid of public schools or afraid of them when they produce good results for children who want to succeed.

 

[Aino]

I trust my local school system enough to let my possible future go there without a doubt. In the end I think values and ways of behaving come from your home regardless of whether or not you're home schooled, so I'm not all that concerned about that; besides schools aren't allowed and tend not to be religiously biased so that's not a concern. I also think that professional teachers might be able to teach my kids in all those different subjects better then me anyways so I'd rather they went to an actual school for that. I'll just need to raise them to do their school work there well and to seek knowledge outside of it too... Ideally I'd like them to want to learn out of interest and not in the hunt for good grades, but I guess you cannot force that either... Rather I'd need to set an example and let my actions and attitudes speak.

Now obviously if the school they went to happened to obviously do them bad - if they didn't do anything about bullying for example of if other social complications seemed to get out of hand then I'd need to think about it again, but I'd sure consider other options such as private schooling first before home schooling. Of course there's going to be someone to say that I'm a terrible feminist for saying this but I do want to have a work outside of home most of my life just to keep my head straight. I do appreciate teaching your kids and it must indeed be hard work, but that's just not something I want to do as a first choice.

 

[thegospelisgoodnews]

thegospelisoffensive...take a long, hard look at the little flag above the post you quoted and then see below. I think maybe an edit is warranted (and an apology) on your part.

According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary:

Definition of SOCIALISE

British variant of

Well speaking in the dialect of the country your speaking to, is possibly not the done thing here, When I'm addressing people in Mexico I speak Spanish, When in Rome they say.......I just get a little irritated when the "socialized card" gets thrown in, as if home schooled kids are socially retarded. It is so far from the truth, that it makes me a bit testy, If you want an apology, I apologize for my sarcasm about the posters gramar. socialise your kids with whomever you wish, but if the bible has any meaning in your faith, It would be apparently clear not to let your kids hang out with just anyone. your job is to raise them in the faith. So many are not, which is why they depart from it when they are older

 

[illudium_phosdex]

I wasn't home school but I wanted to be. My parents just weren't too interested in my schooling period.

I do home school my two. We homeschool through our local public school. Because of this, my kids are eligible to take part in the PS extra-curricular activities and take up to two classes at the local public school. Right now my daughter takes orchestra there. My son will take orchestra there next year. And they both take art there. In addition to orchestra, both kids are in AWANA, swimming, youth group and scouting. They are pretty much going somewhere every day of the week except Saturday.

I don't plan to home school past 8th grade. I just don't feel that I have the education to be able to teach my children the higher level maths and sciences. I think I could probably manage the language arts and history but I'm not sure I see the point of keeping them home just for those classes. Plus, I'd kind of like for them to experience prom, home coming and other normal high school experiences. I figure if I haven't laid a good enough moral foundation by 9th grade, then it'll never happen.

 

[thegospelisgoodnews]

I'm British. That's how we spell it here.
Also, the public schools over here are generally ok. Everybody I know has survived British public education and come out relatively sane at the other end.

I'm sorry! I jsut mad a misteak, my bad!

 

[Blank123]

Were you homeschooled? Did you like it? Why/why not?

yes. I loved it. I wouldn't have changed anything. I've also attended mainstream schools, but much preferred the homeschooling route.

Would you homeschool your kids? Why/why not?

Absolutely. I want to actually be the one to raise my kids and I want to know firsthand what they're being taught.. I want my kids to not only learn how to socialize properly with people of all age groups, to learn how to be independent, think for themselves, enjoy learning for the sake of learning. I want them to have the freedom to follow their own passions and not just learn things that a system has arbitrarily decided they need to know. etc... not to knock mainstream schools, because there are excellent ones out there. But they seem to be rather rare, and my experience is that homeschooling works much better for these things than most mainstream schools.

but it really all depends on the parents and how well prepared they are to actually teach their children.

 

[Bryne]

I suppose we will be sort of homeschooling our daughter next year. She is going to enroll in online high school. So she will be doing school at home...but I won't be doing the schooling except to help out as needed.

 

[stormdancer0]

I homeschooled my adult son from 6th grade on. He graduated at 16, and went on to college. I also have an 11 year old and 6 yr old twins. We've homeschooled them all along, but next year we are sending them to public school.

My 11 year old is autistic. We've taught him social skills intensively, and most people can no longer tell he is autistic just by talking to him. He is behind academically, but he can now hold his own with minimal help in the "outside world."

In addition, we just found out a few months ago that the local junior high school has an entire wing of classrooms and classes that are directed towards kids with mild to moderate autism. He went just to look around, and he really liked it.

If I could, I would continue to home school. But my husband is disabled, and he needs a lot of care. I also have begun preaching every Sunday, and that takes up a lot of time in prep work.

My oldest was extremely social when he went to college. In fact, when he was 17, he had a 24 year old woman ask him to go clubbing with her. She thought he was at least 22 or 23. He laughed for days about it. He gets along equally with young kids, people his own age, and older adults. Socialization is only a fear for those who don't homeschool. I haven't met one yet that was "unsocialized."

But there are always exceptions.

 

[pinkstars86]

I really don't have enough knowledge regarding homeschooling to really make a comment about it. My arguement was going to be that I wouldn't think that kids are properly socialized when being homeschooled but this thread has proven to me otherwise. I don't really know anyone in real life that has been so it's difficult for me to really say anything.

I would not homeschool my children though. In my area we have great public schools and private as well. I went to a private (catholic) school until 8th grade and public for high school. The education was fairly similar but I do think the private schools do a great job in teaching children respect and motivation. The kids I went to private school with generally did pretty well with their grades and weren't ridiculously bothered by having to read a book or do homework. No, we didn't *like* it per se, but it seemed like once I went to public school there was a lot more groaning and blowing things off. Then again though, high school is more the age where you start doing that if they're going to. There seemed to be much less punishment for missed assignments or bad grades (does this fall more on the fault of the parents though?) in public school. There was a lot of "apparently I'm not allowed to walk at graduation" *shrug* "oh well Im done!" my senior year. I don't feel like that'd be so easily shrugged off in a private high school.

Nevertheless I loved both the private and public school experience. There's more pressure to act and look a certain way in public school which can be damaging though. Not really sure at this point what I would do with my hypothetical kids and their school but no, I would not homeschool.

 

[Obzocky]

My preference for home schooling isn't really a reflection on the quality of the schools, just the fact that there is quite a strong home schooling community in the UK that I feel offers the same quality of educational resources without the Monday-Friday element.

 

[thegospelisgoodnews]

I homeschooled my adult son from 6th grade on. He graduated at 16, and went on to college. I also have an 11 year old and 6 yr old twins. We've homeschooled them all along, but next year we are sending them to public school.

My 11 year old is autistic. We've taught him social skills intensively, and most people can no longer tell he is autistic just by talking to him. He is behind academically, but he can now hold his own with minimal help in the "outside world."

In addition, we just found out a few months ago that the local junior high school has an entire wing of classrooms and classes that are directed towards kids with mild to moderate autism. He went just to look around, and he really liked it.

If I could, I would continue to home school. But my husband is disabled, and he needs a lot of care. I also have begun preaching every Sunday, and that takes up a lot of time in prep work.

My oldest was extremely social when he went to college. In fact, when he was 17, he had a 24 year old woman ask him to go clubbing with her. She thought he was at least 22 or 23. He laughed for days about it. He gets along equally with young kids, people his own age, and older adults. Socialization is only a fear for those who don't homeschool. I haven't met one yet that was "unsocialized."

But there are always exceptions.

I'm sorry but am I the only one who found it strange that a high school has a WHOLE WING for kids with some sort of Autism, but the state is not declaring a epidemic are they?.....autism is now 1 in 166, thats an epidemic level if you ask me......just a bit of information many cases of autism are being completely reversed with treatments against heavy metal poisoning, its come to light that there are some folks who when they come in contact with things such as lead or mercury their bodies don't flush the toxins out like you or I, if we came in contact with such toxins, they would work there way out through our hair or nails, but a small group of folks are predisposed to the toxins settling in places that cause health issues. The good news is these heavy metal detox remedies are really doing wonders, anyone with autism should look into it.

 

[NoodlesNoodlesNoodles]

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[thegospelisgoodnews]

I trust my local school system enough to let my possible future go there without a doubt. In the end I think values and ways of behaving come from your home regardless of whether or not you're home schooled, so I'm not all that concerned about that; besides schools aren't allowed and tend not to be religiously biased so that's not a concern. I also think that professional teachers might be able to teach my kids in all those different subjects better then me anyways so I'd rather they went to an actual school for that. I'll just need to raise them to do their school work there well and to seek knowledge outside of it too... Ideally I'd like them to want to learn out of interest and not in the hunt for good grades, but I guess you cannot force that either... Rather I'd need to set an example and let my actions and attitudes speak.

Now obviously if the school they went to happened to obviously do them bad - if they didn't do anything about bullying for example of if other social complications seemed to get out of hand then I'd need to think about it again, but I'd sure consider other options such as private schooling first before home schooling. Of course there's going to be someone to say that I'm a terrible feminist for saying this but I do want to have a work outside of home most of my life just to keep my head straight. I do appreciate teaching your kids and it must indeed be hard work, but that's just not something I want to do as a first choice.

Hey I have never been to Finland, I hear its beautiful, can I ask you a question, here in America our schools are riddled with gangs and drugs, guns and violence, every night there's a new news story about this kid raping some student, or this kid shooting this student, or huge drug bust nets a whole bunch of students.........my question is Finland having these kinds of things going on at such a high level

 

[Aino]

Hey I have never been to Finland, I hear its beautiful, can I ask you a question, here in America our schools are riddled with gangs and drugs, guns and violence, every night there's a new news story about this kid raping some student, or this kid shooting this student, or huge drug bust nets a whole bunch of students.........my question is Finland having these kinds of things going on at such a high level

Calm down... Why the heck do you take offense every time someone comes from a different context? People can only speak from their own life anyways. I'm sorry that these things happen in your country - I believe there's tons and tons of good areas too - and I wish the worse ones would do something about it, so people could trust that their kids are safe at school. And well if you've watched the news you've heard about the two recent school shooting incidents in my country. Well yes, that's a lot statistically, but we're working on the issues that most likely were behind it. Yes, there's some other types of crap going on, but I think it's not an issue at least yet so I can still think positively.

 

[Luther073082]

Hey I have never been to Finland, I hear its beautiful, can I ask you a question, here in America our schools are riddled with gangs and drugs, guns and violence, every night there's a new news story about this kid raping some student, or this kid shooting this student, or huge drug bust nets a whole bunch of students.........my question is Finland having these kinds of things going on at such a high level

I should point out that it depends on what school you are talking about too. I went to public school all the way through high school (I attended a private university.) And I can tell you that my school never had any major problems with any of those.

Yes there are schools that do have those problems, but not all public schools have those problems. It depends heavily upon where you live.

 

[Nienna_Lady_of_Tears]

I'm sorry but am I the only one who found it strange that a high school has a WHOLE WING for kids with some sort of Autism, but the state is not declaring a epidemic are they?.....autism is now 1 in 166, thats an epidemic level if you ask me......just a bit of information many cases of autism are being completely reversed with treatments against heavy metal poisoning, its come to light that there are some folks who when they come in contact with things such as lead or mercury their bodies don't flush the toxins out like you or I, if we came in contact with such toxins, they would work there way out through our hair or nails, but a small group of folks are predisposed to the toxins settling in places that cause health issues. The good news is these heavy metal detox remedies are really doing wonders, anyone with autism should look into it.

I went through extensive heavy metal detoxification for several years and it did not help my autism. Same with my husband. It works for some, doesn't work for others.

At any rate I think autism is partially induced by your family environment, but I'm not going to derail the thread further.

 

[stormdancer0]

I'm sorry but am I the only one who found it strange that a high school has a WHOLE WING for kids with some sort of Autism, but the state is not declaring a epidemic are they?.....autism is now 1 in 166, thats an epidemic level if you ask me......just a bit of information many cases of autism are being completely reversed with treatments against heavy metal poisoning, its come to light that there are some folks who when they come in contact with things such as lead or mercury their bodies don't flush the toxins out like you or I, if we came in contact with such toxins, they would work there way out through our hair or nails, but a small group of folks are predisposed to the toxins settling in places that cause health issues. The good news is these heavy metal detox remedies are really doing wonders, anyone with autism should look into it.

Actually, this area has one of the most advanced, extensive treatment and therapy center/children's hospital in the US for the treatment of Autism, Cerebral Palsy, M.S., and other such problems. People move here from all over the world so that their kids can get top of the line treatment and therapy. As a result, we also have many schools that have specialized teaching and classrooms, from pre-K to High school and beyond.

 

[thegospelisgoodnews]

Calm down... Why the heck do you take offense every time someone comes from a different context? People can only speak from their own life anyways. I'm sorry that these things happen in your country - I believe there's tons and tons of good areas too - and I wish the worse ones would do something about it, so people could trust that their kids are safe at school. And well if you've watched the news you've heard about the two recent school shooting incidents in my country. Well yes, that's a lot statistically, but we're working on the issues that most likely were behind it. Yes, there's some other types of crap going on, but I think it's not an issue at least yet so I can still think positively.

Ahhh.....?????????????maybe you should reread my post again??????????...I simply asked if you had the same problems America has......I'm not sure how you could read anymore than that into it. Ahhh don't be sorry for anything thats happening in our country, trust me we have brought it on ourselves. was just asking if the blight had reached your neck of the woods.......and actually I'm very calm....lol thanks

 

[CaliforniaJosiah]

Were you homeschooled? Did you like it? Why/why not?

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Yes (slightly modified form of it)

Mixed. I liked the free time it gave me, the opportunities to pursue MY interests, the academic advantages. I missed the social stuff, I was with my mom too much, I don't think I learned to work together as well as I could have (my ACTIVE involvement in baseball, swimming, theatre and more all helped - but being in a classroom TOO would have been still better)

Would you homeschool your kids? Why/why not?

No. WAY too time consuming.




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