Homeshoolers - YEAH!

[onewheelinwierdo]

Hey! Just wondering who else here is homeschooled.
HOMESHOOLERS ROCK!

































And we're NOT antisocial either.

[Into the blue]

Who's going to be first to mention the spelling?

[Hazmat]

When you say homeschooling, are you refering to tutoring or actual homeschool?? :confused:

[onewheelinwierdo]

When you say homeschooling, are you refering to tutoring or actual homeschool?? :confused:
Not tutoring. When I say homeschooled, I mean you do almost all of your work at home.

[onewheelinwierdo]

Who's going to be first to mention the spelling?
OOPS! Darn that crappy keyboard!:rolleyes:

[Hazmat]

Not tutoring. When I say homeschooled, I mean you do almost all of your work at home.
Where the fun in that?? :D

[onewheelinwierdo]

Where the fun in that?? :D
When 2:30 PM rolls around, the unicycles hit the pavement! (There was a pebble under the "C" key:confused:) I also have the coolest desk around. A couch!:p
No school-work at night either! For me, school starts at about 9 ish.

[Hazmat]

When 2:30 PM rolls around, the unicycles hit the pavement! (There was a pebble under the "C" key:confused:) I also have the coolest desk around. A couch!:p
No school-work at night either! For me, school starts at about 9 ish.
Well maybe you have some fun, each to their own ways i guess. :D If i could have a desk, this is what i would want. :D :D
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[Brian MacKenzie]

do you have any hot teachers?

[podzol]

Yesterday I heard some distressing news about interactions between my son and his teacher. :( . I pulled him from the classroom and he will be truant or home-schooled until the principal opens the door to another classroom to him or next fall when the school year starts again.

Not too happy about it.

Homeschooling can be right for the right kids and the right families. It definitely isn't right for everyone. I like the interaction my son gets with the otehr students and with other adults (except his current teacher).

I wasn't homeschooled, but my spelling is terrible. Some of the national spelling champs have been homeschooled, correct? Life is about more than spelling. I think punctuation and sentence structure are more important than spelling, but I am certain there are those who disagree.

[koebwil]

do you have any hot teachers?
+1
Yesterday I heard some distressing news about interactions between my son and his teacher. :( . I pulled him from the classroom and he will be truant or home-schooled until the principal opens the door to another classroom to him or next fall when the school year starts again.
Can we get some details or is it too personal?

[Joe2005]

I'm homeschooled and I think Forrest is also.

[50 Percent]

i am homeschooled and i was on the front page of the paper for it too once.:)

[50 Percent]

I'm homeschooled and I think Forrest is also.
which forrest? forrestunifreak or fofackard

i fink evan barn is home schooled.

[onewheelinwierdo]

I wasn't homeschooled, but my spelling is terrible. Some of the national spelling champs have been homeschooled, correct? Life is about more than spelling. I think punctuation and sentence structure are more important than spelling, but I am certain there are those who disagree.
I'm not sure about the spelling champs, but I know and live just down the street from the kid (Calvin McCarter) who won the National Geographic Bee in 2004. His brother, Parnell, made it to the nationals as well I think, but he didn't win.

[The Buddy]

I'm homeschooled. I'll agree with podzol that homeschooling is not for everyone, but it has worked well for me and my older brother who just got into college.

[Danni]

I am home schooled.

[Joe2005]

which forrest? forrestunifreak or fofackard

i fink evan barn is home schooled.
Forrest Rowell (ForrestUniFreak)

Who's Evan Barn?

[monkeyman]

OOPS! Darn that crappy keyboard!:rolleyes:

It's ok, I misspell things sometimes too. I should get a new pencil...
;)

[allskrewedup]

Danni is way not homeschooled he isn't cool enough. I'm getting home learned too and I'm getting learned good.

HOMESCHOOLING BEATS ALL

[Jerrick]

I am my own teacher. Does that count?

[tobbogonist]

i was school schooled, is home schooling the appropriate term?

I thought the term school involved more than one learner? and one was tutition(sp)?

[Spencer Hochberg]

which forrest? forrestunifreak or fofackard

i fink evan barn is home schooled.
Ha, if you mean evan byrne then no, he doesn't do school.

[maximus unius]

How can you not do any kind of school? It's a requirment until you're 18 I think...

[Spencer Hochberg]

unschooling.com

I think thats it. I don't know anything about it.

[habbywall]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure evan does unschooling too.

[podzol]

Can we get some details or is it too personal?

Sure. He's figured out how to get nothing done by making the teacher do all his work and even take dictation when it's time to do writing. The teacher is in her first year and falls for it every time.

...Oh poor boy, his pencil is shurting his finger. Let me do that problem for you...

So now he's falling behind in every subject and I am in the throes of trying to get him with a more experienced teacher that can see through this type of behavior.

[habbywall]

Sure. He's figured out how to get nothing done by making the teacher do all his work and even take dictation when it's time to do writing. The teacher is in her first year and falls for it every time.

...Oh poor boy, his pencil is shurting his finger. Let me do that problem for you...

So now he's falling behind in every subject and I am in the throes of trying to get him with a more experienced teacher that can see through this type of behavior.

Good choice. I help tutor some kids near where I live that are mostly in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade. It is very obvious when they don't have they basic's down. And if you don't get the basics down when your supposed to you are screwed for the rest of your schooling or have to work really hard to get them.

[wickedbob]

I like school to some point. I gives me time to oggle at my hot teacher ( I swear she wants us to look at her the way she dresses and does stuff lol not that I mind:D) and talk with friends. Even though I don't feel like going alot I would still rather do that than be homeschooled.

[UniHappy]

I'm homeschooled and it's awesome.

[forrestunifreak]

I'm homeschooled. I'll agree with podzol that homeschooling is not for everyone, but it has worked well for me and my older brother who just got into college.

Hey, that's awsome.... I've been homeschooled all my life.

[Borgschulze]

I go to teaching facilities.

They're horrid, I learn better on my own, and without "Theory" work.

Theory is the worst subject, it doesn't really teach you anything.

I'm going to a Welding School four days a week, we don't do theory, it's useless.

Theory can't teach you patience and skill.

[The Buddy]

Hey, that's awsome.... I've been homeschooled all my life.

I've only been homeschooled for 7 or 8 years. Before that it was a Montessori school where I did absolutely nothing. :P

[surfer1024]

I'm homeschooled. Its Great!!!!:D :D

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

i'm homeschooled. it's cool most of the time.

[one wheely]

I've never met anyone who's ever homeschooled.

Maybe it's coz the schools are better here.

Or its just a northern hemisphere thing.

[Jerrick]

I've never met anyone who's ever homeschooled.

Maybe it's coz the schools are better here.

Or its just a northern hemisphere thing.


Hehe, I could of been in the best school this planet has to offer, and I still would of left to learn in an alternitave style.

[one wheely]

Maybe unicyclists are more willng to try new things than other people.

[Jerrick]

Maybe unicyclists are more willng to try new things than other people.

I wouldnt doubt that. We are an oddity in this world.

[saskatchewanian]

I know two people who were home-schooled, their home schooling was very different form each others but I could not help but notice some similarities. Mindy was home schooled on her fathers ranch in Alberta while Azien was home schooled wherever his family moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to Whitehorse to Saskatoon to Bangladesh. Their experiences were very different but both are slightly above average in their academics but both have some difficulties in social situations due to their lack of exposure to things that were common to the majority of people who went to school for our education.

They are much better at thinking "out of the box" than most people that I know because they were not forced to conform in their thinking with the rest of their class. Personally I blame that conformity for the fact that I can no-longer speak French, I spoke as much French as English as a kid and a little bit of German but when we started to take French in school I was not allowed to answer the questions due to the fact that my French was better than the teachers and to give the other students a chance to answer the questions. I was forced to think like someone who did not know how to speak French during French class and after taking French for two years I was no longer fluent. That would not have happened if I were home schooled.

Sorry that turned into a rant about French class but my point was that in my experience homeschoolers are more apt to think out of the box but are less likely to fit in from a social aspect

[wickedbob]

Maybe unicyclists are more willng to try new things than other people.

Yeah I think we in gerneral like to try new things like unicycle, many juggle and so on.

[50 Percent]

i went to school through the third grade, then i got home schooled definatley worth it:p neener neener t'all yall regular schoolers:p

[podzol]

:p neener neener t'all yall regular schoolers:p

I think it is this kind of thing that alienates homeschoolers from regular schoolers. ;)

[kington99]

Does anyone have any figures for how many people are homeschooled in the US? It just seems much more prevalent than over here, I've never met anyone who was home schooled in the UK. I'm glad I went to school (I was going to say 'normal school' but that would just be a lie), it gave me opportunities that I otherwise would never have had, a large institution can afford facilities that would be just impossible on a small scale.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

As much as a parent tries to socialize their homeschooled kid, there is a certain lack of social awareness. Yeah, they still have friends or whatever, but they don't run into too many people that are vastly different from themselves. It's sheltering a way that can in some cases do more harm than good when the child reaches adulthood.

The other thing that all the homeschooled kids on here seem to be bragging about is how little time they spend, and basically how lazy they are.

There are three main reasons why parents choose to homeschool.

1: They are scared of outside influence. This I believe is the main reason why 75% of homeschooled kids are evangelical Christian. They don't want their kids to run into anyone with opposing views.

2: They are lazy. The kids don't like going to school, so the parents pull them out and let the kids sit on the couch all day and do a couple of hours a day of "school work"

3: They are too "good" for regular schools. They argue that the regular school is holding their kids back.

I think that the first two are the main reasons why people choose to homeschool, but the third is the reason they tell themselves.

[50 Percent]

As much as a parent tries to socialize their homeschooled kid, there is a certain lack of social awareness. Yeah, they still have friends or whatever, but they don't run into too many people that are vastly different from themselves. It's sheltering a way that can in some cases do more harm than good when the child reaches adulthood.

The other thing that all the homeschooled kids on here seem to be bragging about is how little time they spend, and basically how lazy they are.

There are three main reasons why parents choose to homeschool.

1: They are scared of outside influence. This I believe is the main reason why 75% of homeschooled kids are evangelical Christian. They don't want their kids to run into anyone with opposing views.

2: They are lazy. The kids don't like going to school, so the parents pull them out and let the kids sit on the couch all day and do a couple of hours a day of "school work"

3: They are too "good" for regular schools. They argue that the regular school is holding their kids back.

I think that the first two are the main reasons why people choose to homeschool, but the third is the reason they tell themselves.
home schoolers are dumb homschoolers are anti schocial homshooleraa blah blah blah shows how much this guy i know knows about home schooling i socalize more now that im homeschooled and not only with kids in my grade or my age. my work has gotten tougher and im LESS lazy than before:p

[ThisGuyIKnow]

home schoolers are dumb homschoolers are anti schocial homshooleraa blah blah blah shows how much this guy i know knows about home schooling i socalize more now that im homeschooled and not only with kids in my grade or my age. my work has gotten tougher and im LESS lazy than before:p

Think your mom needs to give you another lesson on punctuation and sentance structure.

[frogger]

I am it is cool! My teacher are Mom, dad, and my big bro when he is home from college.

[onewheelinwierdo]

2: They are lazy. The kids don't like going to school, so the parents pull them out and let the kids sit on the couch all day and do a couple of hours a day of "school work"

3: They are too "good" for regular schools. They argue that the regular school is holding their kids back.
1: I'll get to that later. I have to find something in a book I read that will shed some light on that.

2: OK, that's not being fair. I am not lazy, I work hard at my schoolwork. I learn the same stuff as a non-homeschooler, I can just do it faster. No, I don't like going to school, but not many other people do either. If all we do is sit on a couch all day and do "Schoolwork", can you explain why homeschoolers score higher than the national averages on standarized tests like the ACT?
3: That is the case most of the time. In my case it was. I found school very boring and the work easy. I didn't quit because school wa hard, I quit because it was easy. Some people homeschool their kids because the don't do well in school. Most of the time, the people that don't do well in school do very well in a homeschool because they can learn in their own style. As the saying goes, "You can't fit a square peg into a round hole."

[iridemymuni]

you just can't beat real school.

try playing a team sport for physical education at home, how does that work?

do you have a workshop at your house with millions of dollars worth of machinery you can learn on?

do you have a performing arts centre for music and drama?

at school each on of your teachers has a university degree in the specific area that they teach, does your parents have a degree for all of them?

im not bagging you out for being homeschooled, but really you just can't beat school school.

[The Buddy]

you just can't beat real school.

try playing a team sport for physical education at home, how does that work?

do you have a workshop at your house with millions of dollars worth of machinery you can learn on?

do you have a performing arts centre for music and drama?

at school each on of your teachers has a university degree in the specific area that they teach, does your parents have a degree for all of them?

im not bagging you out for being homeschooled, but really you just can't beat school school.

Where I live there are a lot of homeschool basketball and soccer teams. Also, there are regular teams that allow homeschoolers to join.

A lot of my friends who are homeschooled take community college classes where they can learn how to use machinery and the like.

While we don't have our own performing arts center, we do have the use of a theatre that teaches drama and music.

And the teachers having university degrees...that much is true. XD My parents are both doctors and they teach me what they can, but I feel I learn just as much from my text books and community college classes.

[The Buddy]

As much as a parent tries to socialize their homeschooled kid, there is a certain lack of social awareness. Yeah, they still have friends or whatever, but they don't run into too many people that are vastly different from themselves. It's sheltering a way that can in some cases do more harm than good when the child reaches adulthood.

I think part of that is true; there is a certain lack of social awareness. But...I think you'll find that in any school because of the location or whatever. (For example, if your school is in a very rich neighborhood...most of your friends will be well off financially.) Anyways, I've met a whole bunch of people that I ordinarily wouldn't have met if I had been in a regular school institution. Because I'm homeschooled, I have the option of going out into the "real world", while everyone else is still in school. This is probably not true for some homeschoolers, but I feel, for me at least, that we're doing just fine with our socialness with the world.

[50 Percent]

you just can't beat real school.yeah you can

try playing a team sport for physical education at home, how does that work?
home school friends have a full size hockey rink in thier back yard
do you have a workshop at your house with millions of dollars worth of machinery you can learn on?we have a welder a oxyacetlyne torch and many other tool to numerouse to name

do you have a performing arts centre for music and drama?
yes, homeshool performing arts
at school each on of your teachers has a university degree in the specific area that they teach, does your parents have a degree for all of them?
mom tought at a school for a while
im not bagging you out for being homeschooled, but really you just can't beat school school..

[Spencer Hochberg]

If all we do is sit on a couch all day and do "Schoolwork", can you explain why homeschoolers score higher than the national averages on standarized tests like the ACT?I would think because the majority of people go to normal school and the average person is not very smart.

3: I found school very boring and the work easy. I didn't quit because school wa hard, I quit because it was easy.
Well yeah, if you only take remedial classes then it gets really boring and easy. Unless you are really good at learning things on your own from books or you have really smart parents then I think homeschooling holds you back.

I am taking AP calculus, AP physics and AP language and composition and nobody in all my classes is complaining that they are not challenged enough. I know that I would not be able to sit down with the books and try to teach myself and my parents wouldn't be able to help with any of it either.
So if you are complaining that it is too easy then you are either just really smart and the hardest classes that your school offers are just not challenging enough or you chose to take easy stuff. I have taken a lot of normal classes too just because it is very easy to get an A with very little work and no studying but I really don't learn anything. If you are forced to take all remedial classes then I can see how you would want to leave and do it on your own.

[Jerrick]

As much as a parent tries to socialize their homeschooled kid, there is a certain lack of social awareness. Yeah, they still have friends or whatever, but they don't run into too many people that are vastly different from themselves. It's sheltering a way that can in some cases do more harm than good when the child reaches adulthood.

The other thing that all the homeschooled kids on here seem to be bragging about is how little time they spend, and basically how lazy they are.

There are three main reasons why parents choose to homeschool.

1: They are scared of outside influence. This I believe is the main reason why 75% of homeschooled kids are evangelical Christian. They don't want their kids to run into anyone with opposing views.

2: They are lazy. The kids don't like going to school, so the parents pull them out and let the kids sit on the couch all day and do a couple of hours a day of "school work"

3: They are too "good" for regular schools. They argue that the regular school is holding their kids back.

I think that the first two are the main reasons why people choose to homeschool, but the third is the reason they tell themselves.

Im sorry, but my parents didn't choose that I went to an alternative school and go on the GSL program, I did.

To your first point, I am a Christian, but you will hardly see me preaching about it, only unless the person is interested, then I will. I dont say your religion is wrong, mine is right, follow it. And I am definitely ready to meet anybody, and almost all my friends are not Christian, but I still love them. Its interesting to hear their views and about their beliefs.

Second point, I am not lazy. I wake up and workout for 30-45 mins, then I take a shower and do homework for a few hours. After that I usually go and pick up my friends from school. Then I usually plan a uni ride, or if I have work, I go to that, and then there is band practices, videography classes, and digital art classes that I take and teach. My parents dont make me do this, I am motivated and dedicated enough to keep myself busy. I cant sit for long periods at a time doing nothing, that's why I left a normal high school.

Third point, is kinda right, not that I was too good for a regular high school, but I was too fast. I couldn't sit in a class for an hour and 20 minuets when the assignment only took me ten minuets to complete. I wanted to keep working, get ahead and graduate early. The program I am on know allows me to do that.

I failed a year of math, and if I kept going to my regular high school, I would of had to retake it and it would of took a year to finish at that schools pace. Because of switching out, I did that whole year of math within a month. That I am pretty proud of.

[Jerrick]

you just can't beat real school.
I can.

try playing a team sport for physical education at home, how does that work?
MY school sets things up, even for the GSL (homeschooled/self-taught) students can attend. Today, there is a snowboard trip. Next week, a school bowling trip. We have gone to trips to Glacier park, and Mt. Rainier. All of these let you interact and you make tons of good friends.

do you have a workshop at your house with millions of dollars worth of machinery you can learn on?
No, but If I take any class that requires that machinery, I can either go to the neighboring highschool to use it as I please, I can go downtown to the service center which has even more stuff then any high school has, or I can attend a college class. MY school provides the shcedule and transport there and back.

do you have a performing arts centre for music and drama?
Yes, I am in the school band and chamber orchestra. I have performed already at colleges, solo & ensambles, and for the school programs we have.

at school each on of your teachers has a university degree in the specific area that they teach, does your parents have a degree for all of them?
My parents do not teach me. =p


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[monkeyman]

I can (in response to iride's post)

Exactly. Different things work for different people. There is no right answer to this question. You're a fool if you say that one is absolutely better. I like my high school better. Jerrick likes his homeschooling better. I'm in a program with a very hard curriculum, and Jerrick's doesn't sound too easy either.
To each his own. As long as you're learning, who cares?

[onewheelinwierdo]

you just can't beat real school.
Can, and am.
try playing a team sport for physical education at home, how does that work?
Hornets soccer, basketball, softball etc. (Homeschool only teams) I could play hockey on a publc school team if I wanted.

do you have a workshop at your house with millions of dollars worth of machinery you can learn on?
50 Percent told you about our stuff already. I could also take classes at the tech center where they have at least 10 Miller synchrowave TIG welders and other stuff.

do you have a performing arts centre for music and drama?
Homeschool performing arts. Our band program (http://homeschoolbuilding.org/WMHSB/)

at school each on of your teachers has a university degree in the specific area that they teach, does your parents have a degree for all of them?
My Mom got a teaching degree and my Dad has an engineering degree.

im not bagging you out for being homeschooled, but really you just can't beat school school. Homeschooling rules!

[wickedbob]

Exactly. Different things work for different people. There is no right answer to this question. You're a fool if you say that one is absolutely better. I like my high school better. Jerrick likes his homeschooling better. I'm in a program with a very hard curriculum, and Jerrick's doesn't sound too easy either.
To each his own. As long as you're learning, who cares?

+1

I like regular school better even though it is very eazy for my I never study and I read at a 11grade-collage level so school gets boring quick that is why I sleep I mean the teacher said I would fail a test becasue all I do is sleep and I got a 100%. Anyways I like regular school becasue I can socialize and oggle at all my teachers who look amazing:). Also I can't stand my dad helping me with school work in the rare times I do it normally ends up me being grounded or something of that sort let alone teaching me that would be hell. Plus I will admit I could go to cyber school but I am not responsible enough I work best when I know someone is over my shoulder watching me I think that is due to my dad though.

[maestro8]

you just can't beat real school...
Just to play devil's advocate... you list a few resources offered at some "real school" but do you actually use those resources?

I never set foot in several departments at my High School... of your list I only spent time in the drama dept. I played a few team sports but I didn't find that very valuable as far as "education" is concerned.

There's always alternatives to every amenity you describe. There's community-organized theatre in most towns, and any city with a parks & rec. department will usually offer some sort of intramural sports. For those who want to learn mechanics, they can easily do an apprenticeship at a shop or mill.

As to the "university degreed" instructors, a degree doesn't make one a good teacher. Nor does one require a degree to be exceptionally intelligent.

There are three main reasons why parents choose to homeschool.
This sentence smacks of an authoritative statement to be followed by scientifically-determined statistics... instead, yet again, ThisGuyWhoTrolls pulls some biased fiction out of his arse and posts it up, with no citations, studies or even news articles to back up his position. You're getting good at trolling, dude, but you aren't fooling me.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

This sentence smacks of an authoritative statement to be followed by scientifically-determined statistics... instead, yet again, ThisGuyWhoTrolls pulls some biased fiction out of his arse and posts it up, with no citations, studies or even news articles to back up his position. You're getting good at trolling, dude, but you aren't fooling me.


If someone can come up with a 4th reason that isn't a derivative of one of the ones I already gave I'd love to hear it.

[one wheely]

I'm not gonna bag homeschooling since i've never tried it, but how would you do chemistry, physics experiments at home? How do you do group work?

At least at school it properly prepares you for future education or jobs.

[Jerrick]

I'm not gonna bag homeschooling since i've never tried it, but how would you do chemistry, physics experiments at home? How do you do group work?

At least at school it properly prepares you for future education or jobs.

Are you saying that I am not qualified and prepared to go into college or that I am not ready or have been taught on how to apply for a job, how to write up my own resumes, cover letters, to get letters of recommendation and how to act in job interviews? If so, you are very mistaken.

I dont do much group work though, and back in a regular school, when I did, I didnt like it, a few times it would work, but other times one person, usually me, would do the work, and the others would just mess around. One time I decided not to do the work for them, and when it was our turn to present our work, I got up and said exactly why I didn't do the work, and exactly what my other partners where doing. But I can still do group work. There's times when I go into school for a science project, and other classes, so I can still do group work.

If I want to do chemistry I have a few options. I can go to a college course and do it there, I can go to the skill center and get it done there, or I can order the stuff and do it at my own house.

[kington99]

I dont do much group work though, and back in a regular school, when I did, I didnt like it, a few times it would work, but other times one person, usually me, would do the work, and the others would just mess around. One time I decided not to do the work for them, and when it was our turn to present our work, I got up and said exactly why I didn't do the work, and exactly what my other partners where doing. But I can still do group work.

The whole point of group work in schools is to work out how to work with people who are lazy, incompetent or obnoxious, because you can garauntee it's going to happen in the workplace. Getting to the end of a contract and saying "The work you've paid hasn't been done, because the other guys are douches" isn't considered acceptable. You can only 'do group work' when you can get results regardless, within reason, of the people you're put with.

[Jerrick]

The whole point of group work in schools is to work out how to work with people who are lazy, incompetent or obnoxious, because you can garauntee it's going to happen in the workplace. Getting to the end of a contract and saying "The work you've paid hasn't been done, because the other guys are douches" isn't considered acceptable. You can only 'do group work' when you can get results regardless, within reason, of the people you're put with.

I know this. I just did it to make a point, and it was made very clearly.

I should rephrase when I said I dont do much group work, and should of put that I haven't done much group work lately. a few weeks ago I was doing nothing but group work, going to meeting to work with other people.

The past two weeks have settled down a little and I haven't had any group work to do, just a lot of work to be done by myself.

[The Buddy]

Most homeschool communities have a co-op where they can take classes like chemistry or whatever. In my area, when a homeschooler turns 15 most of them go to the local community college and take what ever classes they need to or whatever.
And the college comment...My brother is making all A's at the University of Texas's Engineering college and he's also in honors...So I think at least for him, homeschooling has prepared him very well.

[unipsychler]

I was not home schooled but I believe I would have been much better off had I been. Now that I have four kids, three of which are in private school, I've researched and considered home schooling and am very intrigued by its benefits. Unfortunately, my wife, doesn't feel comfortable teaching and since I work all day I'm unable to do it. If my wife were able to secure a job that provided as well as my job does I would stay home and teach the kids.

The following are a few of the benefits of home schooling I gleaned from several websites.

The Top 15 Benefits of Home schooling
You get to...

1. Control what your children learn and when they learn it.

2. Show your children that learning is not boring, but exciting.

3. Build intimate and meaningful relationships with your children.

4. Tailor your teaching to fit your children's dominant learning styles.

5. Give your children in-depth, personal attention in any subject with which they struggle or excel.

6. Create a weekly schedule that fits your needs and allows you to do things without the constraint of a traditional classroom schedule.

7. Transfer your values and beliefs to your children and address their questions when they have them.

8. Protect your children from the negative influences they may encounter outside the home.

9. Teach more effectively by interacting with your children 1-on-1.

10. Nurture your children's natural (musical, artistic, mathematic) talents so they thrive and grow.

11. Address "sensative" issues with your children when you feel they're ready.

12. Share with your children the common, everyday joys of life.

13. Help your children mature through the difficult times in their lives.

14. Share the joy of teaching your children with your spouse.

15. Take vacations during the school year and make them educational.


Many folks considering home schooling are usually concerned with the lack of social interaction their children will experience. Studies have shown that home schooling does not make a child less social but rather the opposite. Children who are home schooled often learn how to better interact with people on a social level. They are often more mature for their age and have more respect for their peers and thier elders. Home schooled children are also often saved from picking up bad habits and behaviors from their peers and don't have to worry about the peer pressure associated with "fitting in." They have more time to concentrate on the work-at-hand rather than what clothes to wear or hairstyle to have.

[BillyTheMountain]

I've researched this issue thoroughly, much more than any of you, and we should end this conversation by misinformed but well meaning persons.

You're parents don't even know how to teach. They have no education courses. It's a conservative plot to decrease classroom size and pay less taxes by shipping kids OUT.

Home schooling is basically another term for
legalizing TRUANCY and EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT!!

End Home Schooling!!!!



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[podzol]

TRUANCY and EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT!!

End Home Schooling!!!!




I have to agree. This week, at home with me, Bear has been victim of child slavery, too. He had to help me plaster the living room during breaks from his reading lessons.

I spent what time I wasn't plastering on the phone with the superintendent, and it looks like they will be able to get Bear into another classroom environment next week. Whew!!

There are some excellent non religious charter schools in the area that I will consider for him next year. They have excellent academic programs and are open structured. He might respond well to that. In one Chinese and Spanish are obligatory. He's been wanting to learn Chinese for a few years now.

Glad that story has a happy resolution. My kid needs the socialization as much as the academic help, so I don't think homeschooling would be right for him.

[BillyTheMountain]

I'm glad you're with me on this one!


There are some excellent non religious charter schools.

HA!! If you believe THAT one, you reallly are a person of faith.

[And I'm happy it had a good resolution.]

Hope to see you both again at the LBI ride this year. (We're planning it as a RALLY this year. We'll all be wearing political buttons and carrying signs about Fighting Bike Supremacy.)

Also, you being my soil scientist and personal doctor, I've got this new outcropping at the edge of the cliff that's my jaw. Hoping you get a chance to look at it, maybe take some soil samples for analysis....

[onewheelinwierdo]

End Home Schooling!!!!
Home schooling is basically another term for
legalizing TRUANCY and EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT!! <<<<Is not!
That's not going to happen anytime soon:p:p:p:p:p:p:D!
END TAXPAYER-DOLLAR-WASTING-EXTRAVAGANT-UNCONSTITUTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!:mad::mad:

[BillyTheMountain]

That's not going to happen anytime soon:p:p:p:p:p:p:D!
END TAXPAYER-DOLLAR-WASTING-EXTRAVAGANT-UNCONSTITUTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!:mad::mad:


Sounds like you learned your skills of fine argumentation at HOME!



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[podzol]

HA!! If you believe THAT one, you reallly are a person of faith.


Well they teach Chinese and Turkish and celebrate a different cultural winter Holiday in each grade. Christmas is celebrated only in 4th grade.

[Spencer Hochberg]

In my area, when a homeschooler turns 15 most of them go to the local community college and take what ever classes they need to or whatever.
Isn't that pretty contradictory? If you are going to community college then I would not call it being homeschooled, I would call it going to community college.

[spazdude222]

I was Homeschooled untill 3rd grade, which is the year my mom released all of us into the world of public school. I like that system, becaus eit gave us a great start, where we weren't going to get screwed by the public school system, but kept us from being socially inept or isolated. Now, I am by NO means saying homeschooled = socially crippled. One of my best friends is homeschooled, and he's ok. Also, I know PLENTY of kids in my school who have no tact or poise, I merely mean that being in public school helps children learn how to resolve conflicts.

[The Buddy]

Isn't that pretty contradictory? If you are going to community college then I would not call it being homeschooled, I would call it going to community college.

They take classes at a community college but they still do other subjects at home. Sorry, I didn't mean for that to sound like that's all they do. :o

[The Buddy]

Where I live, there is a large homeschool community. We are like a very large school that just doesn't see each other everyday. We have "school" dances every few months...We still have the same kind of drama (drama as in conflicts and all that stuff) that happens in normal schools. And for the record, I have absolutely nothing against normal schools. I just don't go to one.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

The Top 15 Benefits of Home schooling
You get to...

1. Control what your children learn and when they learn it.

7. Transfer your values and beliefs to your children and address their questions when they have them.

8. Protect your children from the negative influences they may encounter outside the home.



16. Sheltering your kids from the real world and opposing viewpoints

[The Buddy]

I think on some level, that's true. But I think sheltering will happen in almost ANY environment. I have a friend who goes to normal public school and is almost 15, and if you ask her about drugs or alcohol she'll have no idea what you're talking about. And I'll agree with you that a lot of homeschooling families are very religious and like how no one's there to oppose them. But for my family, I can only speak for myself in this sort of situation, we have VERY different views on religion and our beliefs. I appreciate that my parents didn't force a religion or political view on me. I was able to make my own decision and I feel the world needs more of that freedom.

[podzol]

16. Sheltering your kids from the real world and opposing viewpoints

Hmmm. I do that for myself, it is for the safety of Republicans.

[wickedbob]

I dont do much group work though, and back in a regular school, when I did, I didnt like it, a few times it would work, but other times one person, usually me, would do the work, and the others would just mess around. One time I decided not to do the work for them, and when it was our turn to present our work, I got up and said exactly why I didn't do the work, and exactly what my other partners where doing. But I can still do group work. There's times when I go into school for a science project, and other classes, so I can still do group work.

I hate that. That is exactly why I always work by myself it dose take extra effort and alot my work, but if I get a bad grade there is only one person I can blame myself. I have a hard time trusting people with my grade or anything else like that I would rather do it all myself. Last year I had to work in a group and I had to write all 20 paragraphs do all the research then do the entire poster with no help at all yet everybody in my group got 100%.

[unipsychler]

16. Sheltering your kids from the real world and opposing viewpoints

Not all viewpoints benefit society. Some viewpoints acutally degrade society. Sheltering young children from degrading and sometimes explicit viewpoints, until their mature enough to understand and put them into proper perspective, is a big part of my role as a father.

[forrestunifreak]

16. Sheltering your kids from the real world and opposing viewpoints

Which veiwpoint do you have in mind? The right one or the wrong one?

[ThisGuyIKnow]

Not all viewpoints benefit society. Some viewpoints acutally degrade society. Sheltering young children from degrading and sometimes explicit viewpoints, until their mature enough to understand and put them into proper perspective, is a big part of my role as a father.

Exactly, teaching people that the Earth is only 6000 years old, and that gay people are stupid, crazy, evil. etc. Those viewpoints hardly benefit society, but those the views that are held by a significant portion of people who choose to home school their children.

I heard a guy one time try to justifying his choice to homeschool his kids because of rap music.

There is a point where protecting your kids does more harm than good.

[DickCheney]

And when that happens, i'll be there to blow their friggen heads off with my republican ways!!!

Up with bush!

Why don't we just kill all the democrats, they have no morals!

God does exist and not to believe in him is bs!

They need to leave our country!!

Why are democrats so evil!?!
- They want people in the same sex to be allowed marriage rights?!!?
GAYS ARE EVIL!! READ THE BIBLE!!!!

The one good thing hitler did for our world was try to rid it of gays and retards and jews. I love america!!! AND I LOVE REPUBLICANS!!!! FUCK YOU DEMOCRATS!

I also love satires

[habbywall]

I want to get homeschooled. My mom told me to find out how much it costs.
So where do all of you guys and girls get your books and such?
How much does it cost per year?

[Tim Morin]

I was not homeschooled, but my wife and I are planning to homeschool our children.

[rabbithunter018]

I want to get homeschooled. My mom told me to find out how much it costs.
So where do all of you guys and girls get your books and such?
How much does it cost per year?

A whole lot more than public school. You have to buy all of your text books and curriculum, which are far from cheap. I'm not sure exactly how much, and I'm to lazy to ask my mom right now, but look on ebay or site that sells curiculum.

[Spencer Hochberg]

I know at my school if we lose a text book then they charge around $50-$100 to replace the book depending on what it is. I would assume it costs that much to buy a new one.