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]

Originally Posted by ninja tom

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]

Originally Posted by Biggestbtc

...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!

Originally Posted by ThisGuyIKnow

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]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

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.