Homeschooling?
 

Anyone here homeschool their kids? How's it going so far? Better than public school?

i dunno about that. but i think interacting with fellow kids means a lot to your kid. anyway, it works for kid celebrities, i think.

All the kids in my neighborhood that were home schooled were missing some serious social skills.

Okay, I'll put that in the NAY column. Any other thoughts?

don't do it. The only thing kids will learn in school is how to interact with other people.

the kids need to meet other kids, thats important about going to school.

Take a looky at this site


http://www.faqfarm.com/Parenting/Homeschooling/519


It has views/opinions of kids who have been home schooled. And people who are inquiring about it.

First time I smoked weed was in 6th grade. First drop of Acid 8th grade. I turned out ok I guess :Graucho

we homeschooled our kids for about 3 years and it was great. BUT you do have to keep them involved socialy with other kids. our kids did MORE than most kids who attended school...karate, soccer, baseball, boy scouts, etc. they were out of the house about 3-4 nights a week. AND they tested at the 99% percentile on all of thier state mandated exams. i think it can work out great, but you have to do it right and be comitted to it

I feel that it's best to send my kids off to school. For one, in school they cover everything which is great, plus like others say, they have that social interaction and get to meet/have friends.

Another thing is that I know for me, school is like a break time for me, I don't know if I could take having my kids home 24/7 365 days a year, ha ha ha.

90% of your time in school is wasted anyway. Homeschooling can't possibly be worse than public education, unless the parents are retarded and the kid doesn't have an ounce of self-reliance. As for the social aspect of school, I have no idea what you people are babbling about. Other than calling each other fags, guys don't really communicate at that age. If anything, homeschooling spares you from emotional trauma.

Say what you will, but the kids I knew who were homeschooled were a bit "off." There's no easy answer. Find some adults who were homeschooled and ask them.

If you make enough coin consider a private school as a happy medium. Homeschooled kids do frequently miss out on the rough-and-tumble of social interaction that helps them learn how to get along in the world. But public schools are frequently overcrowded and cater to the lowest common denominator, while tolerating outrageous levels of kid-to-kid bullying. Are there any private schools in your area whose educational approaches mesh with your feelings about education?

As strange as it sounds, I think that time in your life when you go through the process of "calling each other fags" or otherwise being immature is important for a persons development. It's part of the learning process. It's part of the process to eventually becoming mature.

I was homeschooled. It is both good and bad like most things. You do miss out on interacting with other people but if done right the kids will be smarter then most of the kids in public school. If it was my kids I would say do it till they were in about 5th - 7th grade. I was homeschooled till I was a sophmore. If you put them in school after they learn reading, spelling and math at home it will be a lot easier for them to pick up on other stuff because they have the basics that get skiped over in schools and they just hope you pick them up. (I know this because I have sisters that were in public schools part of the time.) It took me a few years after I graduated to become used to being around people after I started school. That is why I believe that it is better to put them in earlier then when I was. If you do this you have to be willing to work with them atleast 6 hours a day though. When I did go to school I had a 3.6 grade point average and no problem whatsoever with test or homework.

True story ...
The X's sister home-schooled their kids and was featured on cable with a 30 minute interview.

Meanwhile ... Nazi Swastikas (?) and flags/clocks decorated their basement.

The four year old would say "fucking pigs" everytime he saw a police cruiser ...

Ya okay -????? NOT!

BYE BYE TO ALL THE LIES ...
lol

My wife was home schooled by her mom for 5 years, and she did ten times better when she entered public school.

We intend on doing it with out child.

I would do it with mine - if that chance were available.
I don't think at 40 years of age I will have another chance to have a real family - for once. I am not against home schooling ... I just relayed a true story in my life. That's all.

I'm sure there's some statistic somewhere that says home schooled children are smarter, and I would believe it. But the thing you should probably ask yourself is, are brains the only thing that matters in life?

If I ever have kids, I'm going to find a good private school and then have them get involved in activities with kids of a "public school" nature. It sounds weird and I don't quite know how to explain it, but kids in private schools generally come from families that have money. Getting them involved with the public school aspect would show them that money isn't everything and isn't the end all.

Ok, enough blabbering. I'm confusing myself!

No ... I get some of what you are saying.
I was lucky to be in a public school system that at that time let me skip grades 3,6 and 9.

With home schooling the kids can progress at their own rate - but they miss the social interactions with others of their same age - a skill in life that may be just as important as academic ones.

Pussy.

Perhaps, but at least I'm not a pathologically antagonistic savage whose genes ought to be removed from a healthy society.

I pay $8800 for my 5 year old to go to kindergarten, and I consider it money well spent.

I wouldn't do it. Only homeschool kids I ever met had serious social interaction problems.

Home schooling is for troubled kids and/or troubled parents. Rediculous.

Z

My son played soccer with a lot of homeschooled kids and quite honestly, except for the fact my son was smarter than me by the time he was in the 3rd grade, I couldn't find anything wrong with it.

The kids got to learn at their own speed and there weren't wasted hours when they nothing.

There were groups of homeschoolers that got "guest teachers" (for example, a local meteorologists, doctors, vets, etc.), they went on field trips, had sport teams, etc.

All kids had the choice to go to "regular" school whenever they wanted. Some went when they were in HS and stayed, but several went and came back to homeschooling.

I spent a lot of time with these kids over 10+ years and certainly saw NO lack of social skills.

I will either be home schooling my kids or private schooling them the public is just too much of a mess to trust my kids with it.

I think George Bush was home schooled. At least he talks like it and doesn't read either.

don't put your kid through home school. Kids need to learn social skills that come in very handy later on in the business world. Sure there are some people who may be some bad influance on your children but you can sort that out while they are young and you won't have to deal with it much when they are in middle school or high school.

I know a lot of people that are a "little off" and they went to regular school.
I am pro homeschooling. I am far smarter and better educated than any teacher out there, and I want to give my kid more than he/she could get in public (or even private) school.

Most of us in this industry are fairly smart people, therefore our offspring will have a high IQ.

Do you really want your kid to slow down to keep up with the pace of the rest of the kids in class???

when I was in school, my teachers had to keep me entertained because the other kids were still realizing what was going on when I had already learned it. It was boring! And I was lucky that I was educated in Cuba, where the school system is 100 times better than the one in the States, and where teachers do pay attention to their students, kids do not mess with each other, there are no drugs, violence, etc.

I vote for Home Schooling!

also, if you want your kid to have good social skills, just the kid in soccer, karate, chess, etc., etc...
The only thing that a home schooled kid will lack is the mean-ness of the HS kids that go to public school. And, if you want to fix this, push your kid very seriously into karate, that way nobody will mess with him/her.

Once again: I vote Home Schooling ;)

yea, thats a big CON of homeschooling.

now, after they graduate high school, then they
can choose to be anit-social (due to experinces)
and do college online :Graucho

You really want your fucking kids around that much? Damn send them to boarding school

lol

heres what id do with a kid
1. do all your kids homework from grades 1-12 so he has like a 4.3 gpa

2. then send him to college and do all his homework

3. then he'll get rich and you can live off him (or her)...

or figure out what sport he would fair best at and make him play 24/7...then..see number 3

How about MILITARY school?

See, two things come to mind. Firstly, I think part of growing up is being confronted with opinions that maybe outside of the norm for your family and deciding how to deal with them. Surely, that is limited when your parents are doing the filtering of what you learn.

Also, unless you have some outstandingly intellegent parent they can't possibly be educated to the level they should be in each subject in order to teach it properly. Sure in elementry school the very basics are the very basics but as they get older I wonder how many parents would be able to properly educate their child to an equal level in English and say science?

Dont put kids through homeschool. Cant think of anything more detrimental.

okay, i have to say that post scared me ...how long would you home school? All the way until graduation? Okay. So, if you are as well educated as all their teachers would be then you are going to be able to teach them chemistry and advanced math skills while also being able to teach them politcal science and history?

Homeschooling's no substitute for real school. Unless you have some educational background yourself, how can you take the place of teacher who's taught in a subject such as physics? Textbooks only go so far.

Education wise home schooling could be better. However social wise it sucks. And in the long run social skills might be more important than papers...

Andre

What kind of educational background do you have?

As far as parents knowing the material: The homeschooling parents I know learned the material and then taught it to the kids. They would also pool resources - if someone was an English major, they would teach all the kids English, Science major, same thing.

If you talk to teachers in many public school, they didn't major in the subject they're teaching, they majored in education. They learned the subject before they taught it. Homeschooling parents do the same thing.

It's not for every kid, it's not for every parent but it's certainly a very viable option.