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What do you think of homeschooling?
Artiste:
Sometime, there is no choice but to homeschool ?
delalluvia:
What siouxi and sunshadow said.
I think it should be an alternative, but there should be strict controls in place. The parent who is to teach needs to be certified to teach. Why would a parent take a child out of schools, so as to give their child a better alternative, but then not want to be the best sort of teacher for them? The parent should file with their local school the yearly lesson plans and the child should be expected to take the national tests along with the other children to make sure the parent is keeping up with what their child should be learning and perhaps the child should join the children of their own age group at the local school for playground time, especially when they're young so as to be socialized. There are many reasons children are homeschooled.
Yes, children pick up bad habits from their peers, but they also pick up coping skills that can't be learned anywhere else. The world is not Disneyland and a child learns how to deal with strangers in their age group, make friends, learn who they are no other way than to interact with them.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 12, 2008, 10:08:34 pm ---What siouxi and sunshadow said.
I think it should be an alternative, but there should be strict controls in place. The parent who is to teach needs to be certified to teach. Why would a parent take a child out of schools, so as to give their child a better alternative, but then not want to be the best sort of teacher for them? The parent should file with their local school the yearly lesson plans and the child should be expected to take the national tests along with the other children to make sure the parent is keeping up with what their child should be learning and perhaps the child should join the children of their own age group at the local school for playground time, especially when they're young so as to be socialized. There are many reasons children are homeschooled.
Yes, children pick up bad habits from their peers, but they also pick up coping skills that can't be learned anywhere else. The world is not Disneyland and a child learns how to deal with strangers in their age group, make friends, learn who they are no other way than to interact with them.
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What she said.
I'll admit, however, that I come at it with a biased point of view. My home life as a child was hell. My Mom drank herself into oblivion and was in the bag by about 2:00 p.m. every day by the time I was six. School was a sanctuary. It was the only place where adults paid any attention to me. I also got bullied, made fun of because I wore my brothers' hand-me-downs, and ostracized. But the adult attention I craved far outweighed the rest.
If you're a fully-functional adult who is also accredited in teaching and truly feels you can do it better than your child's school for whatever reason, I say power to you. But if you're *only* doing it in an attempt to shelter your child from something beyond your control, while I feel for you, I think you're not doing your child any favors in the long run.
Artiste:
With drug pushers beating up on students who refuse to take dope, no wonder parents think of home schooling ! Right ?
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Artiste on November 14, 2008, 12:06:24 am ---With drug pushers beating up on students who refuse to take dope, no wonder parents think of home schooling ! Right ?
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I'm sure that is part of the reason why some parents decide to home school. Schools are MUCH more dangerous these days than they were when I was going to them. The idea of a student packing a gun into school and shooting students and teachers was unthinkable in my day. It never crossed my mind. Never! I doubt others considered it either.
No, back when I was in school if we wished to seek revenge on the teacher we'd plant something in her desk drawer, like a frog. OR, I remember one teacher I had, Miss Swisher. She was in her 80s, or at least she looked like she was in her 80s. She was a very frail little old woman. She taught high school English (sorry Shasta for what I'm about to say) and she wasn't too popular with the students. She was very strict! And she spoke impeccable English, something I admire now, but back then most of us found it annoying. Also her handwriting was so shaky we could barely read it. So..... (What I'm about to tell you I DID NOT DO! But I knew about it when it happened) somebody took some pot seeds and stuck them down in the dirt of the potted plants she had up on the windowsill. And they started growing! Every day she'd walk over there and water her marijuana plants. She had absolutely no idea what they were. I feel really bad now that I didn't say anything to her about it, but it was as funny as hell back then in 1978.
That's how we got revenge on teachers. And although it was very bad and very wrong, none of us considered actually killing our teacher, or our fellow students.
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