home education.

[ninja tom]

fairly sure no-one has posted this before, have they?
Seen a few people talk about it on the forums here.

I'm home educated, what are your thoughts?

Just wondering how many others there are...

Cheers
T.

[johnfoss]

Home Educated sounds a lot better than the American expression, Home Schooled. Having been to school does not mean one is educated. :)

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I teach myself at home.
Right now, I'm studying for SAT and SATII

John, you're so right. The school I would be going to, is a C average school. Eish.

[ninja tom]

cool!
Yeah, I'm working my way through a math's GCSE through open learning.

I want to do an art GCSE though, and that is harder to do outside of school..

T

[Biggestbtc]

I'm home-educated. I like that term. "Homeschoolers" have gotten a bad wrap for being ignorant of "normal" things and for tucking their polo shirts into jacked-up pants without a belt.

eeesh....

I know there are others on here. Come out, come out, where ever you are!

[ninja tom]

haha, yeah.

I get a lot of 'dude, do you have any friends?'

Yeah, I got loads.. ha

I've seen one other talk about it, but not many others



T.

[captainconcarne]

I was homeschooled for 3 years from 7 to 9th grade, and they were so much fun and because my family went to a huge co-op for homeschoolers every week I made a lot of friends (and broke a lot of rules - homeschool mom hall monitors are the law ;))

[ninja tom]

where I live theres about 70 other families who home ed they're kids, so yeah, I meet alot through they're.

T.

[maestro8]

where I live theres about 70 other families who home ed they're kids, so yeah, I meet alot through they're.

So I take it English isn't in your home ed. curriculum?

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

oh gee, I can't wait to meet you Jason baby!

I might spend all of muni fest transcribing your speech, word for word.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

It all depends on your your reasons for doing it.

Many parents choose to home school their kids out of fear. They feel that other kids will be bad influences, or that the kids might get into questionable things like rap music, or be taught ridiculous things like evolution or how to prevent STDs and pregnancy.

a few posters in this thread who say they were homeschooled also protest heavily in the christian threads about God is the only way, Truth with a capital T sort of things. I can only assume there is some sort of a connection.

Other parents allow their children to be home schooled because the kids are too lazy make it through a normal day of school and the parents give in to the whining. The parents in these cases are often also lazy and don't really create any sort of structured education for their child.

Homeschooling can shelter children from dealing with the unfavorable. Yeah, you go to home school co-op stuff, but those are still other kids who are home schooled. Home schooled kids don't often aren't fully socialized and never learn to deal with the general population which includes many unfavorable types.

[Jerrick]

I was on a program called GSL. Id take home as much work as I wanted, would do it all at home, and became my own teacher. If I didnt understand something I had to teach myself it, reading through the book or looking it up online until I understood it all. Then 1 day a week id come into school and grade it, then turn it in, grab my next stack of work I wanted to do, and go back home.

I was also part of an alternative school too, which let me do a lot of cool stuff for classes and excel better than i ever would of if I stayed at my first high school.

EDIT: My choice to go into an alternative school then switch to their GSL program was all my choice. No parents involved, religion, fear, whining or wanting to be sheltered. Just figured it was about time I take some things into my own hands.

[johnfoss]

...being ignorant of "normal" things and for tucking their polo shirts into jacked-up pants without a belt.Yeah and if they went to public school they'd learn the proper way to dress is several sizes too big, with lots of underwear showing. Hey, I don't make the rules!

Other parents allow their children to be home schooled because the kids are too lazy make it through a normal day of school and the parents give in to the whining.On the other hand, some parents home school their children because they get bored and problematic at "regular" school because the pace is too slow for them.

Home schooling, like any other form of schooling, is as good as you make it. Some families are excellent at it, while others do worse than the most broken-down public schools.

[1-wheeled-grape]

I know someone that was home educated from about year 3 too year 6 of primary school, and when it came to going to secondary school he backed out and ended up being taught the first year of secondary school at home. When he started in year 8 every one thought he was stupid becuase they never saw him at primary school. I have no idea if he is or not but that is a little judgemental.

However, his 10 yr old brother is also home educated and he cant even say his brothers name properly.

[Jerrick]

On the other hand, some parents home school their children because they get bored and problematic at "regular" school because the pace is too slow for them.


That pretty much sums it up for me. It really hit me in my math and english class. In english, half the class would just talk and be annoying. Never listening to the teacher, goofing off and acting like they were all 5 still.

Another quarter, not to be mean, they were just a little slow, and the last quarter of the class was where I was. Basically me and my friends and a few others actually wanting to listen to the teacher, get the assignment and get to work.

The other kids in class would just bring the period to a halt and I felt more heldback then when I skipped half a year of school the year before. (Then id just make up the assignments and tests without dealing with the kids. Was much funner. Id advise not to skip though)

Kids thought they could push me around a bit too, which was funny. In group work when they do nothing, instead of just doing the whole project id just quit it. When it was our time to present id get up "____, _____ and I decided not to work on this. Please give us all Fs. Thanks." Then sit down. Oh how they hated that.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Yeah and if they went to public school they'd learn the proper way to dress is several sizes too big, with lots of underwear showing. Hey, I don't make the rules!

This is a very good argument on my part, but that style is (for most people) far more apealing than what Benj-o described.
By far.

[Jeremy R]

Its the opposite of that at my math class.

50% want to just get an A... AKA i don't care if I learn, just write my notes & give me an assignment

25% want to learn math, and know cool stuff about it, challenge the teacher when they BS, and are ok with getting a B in the class

25% can't understand my teacher.

[dudewithasock]

I always love reading posts that bash the American public schools, because I get to grin smugly and relish the fact that I went to a school where the International Baccalaureate program was offered. One of the best experiences of my short life thus far.

[surndr]

i defiantly like the term "home-educated" i learned at home up to ninth grade, then i went to public. i think both have their good and bad parts
homeschool good
home-educated students in my experience are just as social as other kids. i loved my home-education it gave me the confidence to thrive and succeed in public school, it gave me character heck i ride a unicycle how much more character can i get?
homeschool bad
there are the kids that pull their pants up to their nose...but they are usually special.In homeschooling there are families that have social issues but out of the 8+ places i have lived in .i have only met one or two of these families.

public school good
in public school i made good friends and passed math and science (hard subjects for me) those were the good things
homeschool bad
often though i was not challenged, in the past 4 years i have had one class that challenged me and that was algebra 2 with a coach that could not teach to save his life. things like the little "guided reading" worksheets that are supposed to take 1/2 and hour took like 5 min.
but the teachers were great when i needed help.

both have their own myths about what they are like, but it seems that few people try either or get to know kids that are in either one it is kinda one of those things where you have to "walk in their shoes"
when i graduated i made this post (http://surndr.blogspot.com/2008/12/next-semester-school-gone-by-and-still.html)

[Biggestbtc]

Yeah and if they went to public school they'd learn the proper way to dress is several sizes too big, with lots of underwear showing. Hey, I don't make the rules!


Yeah, good insight there. I guess they fell off the other side of the waist!


So impractical. Did you ever see them try to walk? It looks like they are going primitive.

[johnfoss]

So impractical. Did you ever see them try to walk? It looks like they are going primitive.Cops love it. When hoodlums dress like that they're easy to catch!

[Jerrick]

I always love reading posts that bash the American public schools, because I get to grin smugly and relish the fact that I went to a school where the International Baccalaureate program was offered. One of the best experiences of my short life thus far.

It wasnt so much the school and teachers I didnt like, it was the kids I got grouped together with.

[dudewithasock]

It wasnt so much the school and teachers I didnt like, it was the kids I got grouped together with.

My point still stands. Because of the nature of the program, all of my peers were dedicated to learning, like I was.

[forrestunifreak]

I was Home Educated as well. Last semester at college was the first time attending "school" in my life. It might have felt slightly odd at first but not really. I got used to it quick enough.

[net_hippy]

I went to a school where the International Baccalaureate program was offered. One of the best experiences of my short life thus far.

I'm very jelous. That is a great education system.

[ninja tom]

I was Home Educated as well. Last semester at college was the first time attending "school" in my life. It might have felt slightly odd at first but not really. I got used to it quick enough.

I too, have never been to school, but I probably will go to school in the summer.
Its easier to go and get my GCSE's there, thats my main reason.
T.

[kington99]

it seems to me that learning to deal with irksome people is part of life, unless you intend to shield yourself from the genreal public you're going to experience it at some point, and the more experience of it you have the better. Having had a very sheltered education in a British public school (for historic reasons the oldest private schools are called public schools, very confusing) I often wish i had socialised with people beyond those who could pass the entry requirements; an ability to pass entry exams, money and a penis.

[ninja tom]

allthough many people think that 'home edded' kids have a bad socializing skills, I only know 3-4 other home edded kids who can't socialize well and find it hard to cope with large amounts of people.

My parents have brought me up going to many different clubs/organizations, so since I was young I've had experience in situations wiht loads of people.

T.

[ntappin]

I like bashing kids who bash their education systems either way. Because come the long run, your high school education for most people isn't something you have a lot of control over. Most people are lucky to have more than one option available to them, and then again are lucky to have a system that actually works for them.

I probably would have done better in a system similar to Jerrik's, but I had nothing like that available, at least not to my current knowledge, but either way it doesn't matter anymore because I'm out of the system, I finished high school, and what happened in high school matters a lot less than what is happening right now and in my future, so I don't worry about what high school I went into, or what programs I had available to me.

For those interested, I was publicly educated, through three different school boards, and two levels of education. I started off in the Carleton school board which eventually amalgamated with the Ottawa school board, when this happened I was tested and designated enriched or gifted or whatever you want to call it and given the opportunity to take special classes and stuff. I did that in grades 4 and 5 where we went to a special class for two hours a day to work on projects that were generally meant for older kids. Then in grade 6 I went into the French board and enjoyed the first time being in a 100% French school taught by actual French or Quebecois teachers, which was a huge shock for me coming from a school where I was taught in a French immersion program by Spanish, and Romanian teachers teaching european French and generally speaking quite slowly. Middle school was Ottawa Carleton school board again but with Quebecois teachers in the immersion program, and finally High school I started off in Enriched courses, quickly realized that they were not for me as instead of just learning faster or differently it is the exact same stuff, but they grade you harder, give you more work, and expect more of you, generally resulting in lower grades and even more disinterest in my case.

I think that being in a stable school system with good teachers is more important than exactly what program you are in.