Homeschooling Children

[Farmer Br0wn]

You go through 6-8 teachers every year. Each of them will impact your kid in a different way. Some will excel at connecting with them. One or two will become their favorites of all time. Education varies from counties to counties and state to state..

There are multiple view points available to a child if they are curious and open-minded enough to ask and learn from...

Not every school operates in this manner.

From where I am sitting right now, if I were to drive an hour in any direction, only two schools would have more than one teacher per grade.

Here in the more rural areas of America, it's quite common for there to be only one teacher per grade.

One must consider the life experiences of others, before they start giving others life advice.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I think it's a great way to train regular kids to become autistic.

Do you really? Do you have any evidence to support that notion?

Frankly, as a parent of three kids, the last thing I am concerned about as I consider their education and moral upbringing is whether other kids will think they are cool.

Sure, home school kids usually socialize less with their peers and so they don't get all the inside jokes and are a month or two behind on the trends, but drug use is lower, teen pregnancy rate is lower, teen arrest rate is lower, etc.

 

[mcveteran81]

Standard? Are you kiding with this shit? Do you listen to how ignorant you sound? Jesus might have lived a decent moral life but that is about all we can tell from real history and facts, to accept something written and re translated over multiple languages hundreds of times over as truth or fact is naive at best.
There is not on single shrewd of evidence that " god" even exists yet you state it as pure fact.
You are the perfect christian apologists who has fallen in line with the reason religion was born! Control the masses with fear of punishment.
Sun was god until we figured that out remember?

Lol wut mate?

Historicity. Do even know what that means? You realize everything we assume we know about Rome comes from this and it's largely sole provider in the Roman historian Tacitus.

And the yet the Bible blows this standard through the roof. Just the New Testament alone sets a bench mark that no other ancient civilization in the world can hold a stick to.

Control with fear? Were you born today genius? The message of the Bible is Good News, God loves you and has brought you home through the blood atonement of Christ, no more pain or suffering, all tears to be wiped away. Yeah sounds super scary bruh.

But keep believing in aliens.

 

[Rational Poster]

Do you really? Do you have any evidence to support that notion?

Frankly, as a parent of three kids, the last thing I am concerned about as I consider their education and moral upbringing is whether other kids will think they are cool.

Sure, home school kids usually socialize less with their peers and so they don't get all the inside jokes and are a month or two behind on the trends, but drug use is lower, teen pregnancy rate is lower, teen arrest rate is lower, etc.

It was more of a joke really, but I think regular daily social interaction is much more important for development than protecting kids from information their parents might not want them to have access to by keeping them out of school.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

It was more of a joke really, but I think regular daily social interaction is much more important for development than protecting kids from information their parents might not want them to have access to by keeping them out of school.

I think it is a mistake for parents to try and hie information from their children, at least in the long term. In the short term, especially when kids are very young, parents are going to have to choose their battles. But kids are going to learn everything eventually anyway, but by hiding it parents lose the crucial opportunity to help their kids develop healthy attitudes toward problematic issues.

I think what that sort of protective homeshooler archetype is concerned about is not so much withholding information from kids, as sparing them from systematic indoctrination that certainly occurs in some public schools. Other homeschool types simply look at the healthier academic trends among homes school groups. (Personally, I'm open to the idea that this is an area where correlation does not equal causation).

I briefly considered homeschooling simply because my public school experience in Detroit was comprehensively awful. It was chaotic, violent, and filled with adults who didn't give a rat's ass.

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

No, we do it because we value a well rounded education. Religion is a part of history whether we like it or not and I think kids should have all tools at their disposal and not just the ones that come from the bible.

Trust me it isn't for the reason you stated

To me, it sounds like your wife is letting you think whatever you need to think until this whole "atheist phase" passes, while your child gets a Christian education.

Remember, behind every great man, stands an even greater woman.

 

[zebby23]

To me, it sounds like your wife is letting you think whatever you need to think until this whole "atheist phase" passes, while your child gets a Christian education.

Remember, behind every great man, stands an even greater woman.

Atheist phase? Sorry but I had a christian phase when I was young and uneducated. Once I thought for myself I became an atheist.

Don't think that because you believe in fairy tales everyone else does to.

Your last sentence is the only think in your post that made any sense. Btw my child is now in 3rd grade and loving public school. She asked me the other day if god and santa claus were real. 8 years old and she already lumps the 2 fairy tales together

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

Atheist phase? Sorry but I had a christian phase when I was young and uneducated. Once I thought for myself I became an atheist.

Don't think that because you believe in fairy tales everyone else does to.

Your last sentence is the only think in your post that made any sense. Btw my child is now in 3rd grade and loving public school. She asked me the other day if god and santa claus were real. 8 years old and she already lumps the 2 fairy tales together

I used to be just like you.

In time, the truth will set you free.

Travel well friend.

 

[SaiWa]

Not every school operates in this manner.

From where I am sitting right now, if I were to drive an hour in any direction, only two schools would have more than one teacher per grade.

Here in the more rural areas of America, it's quite common for there to be only one teacher per grade.

One must consider the life experiences of others, before they start giving others life advice.

One teacher per grade??? U mean one teacher is teaching every friggin subject???

 

[zebby23]

I used to be just like you.

In time, the truth will set you free.

Travel well friend.

lol and I used to be like you.

 

[Swing]

If I had children and was in a position to stay at home and teach them myself, I would consider it. I don't think there's a subject taught in high school that I couldn't handle at an above average level. I wouldn't presume to think I'd do a better job than the best teachers; that's a ridiculous idea, but I'm sure I'd be much better than the less capable ones. I imagine a lot of the parents who choose to home school their kids feel this way.

 

[colby25]

I think it is a mistake for parents to try and hie information from their children, at least in the long term. In the short term, especially when kids are very young, parents are going to have to choose their battles. But kids are going to learn everything eventually anyway, but by hiding it parents lose the crucial opportunity to help their kids develop healthy attitudes toward problematic issues.

I think what that sort of protective homeshooler archetype is concerned about is not so much withholding information from kids, as sparing them from systematic indoctrination that certainly occurs in some public schools. Other homeschool types simply look at the healthier academic trends among homes school groups. (Personally, I'm open to the idea that this is an area where correlation does not equal causation).

I briefly considered homeschooling simply because my public school experience in Detroit was comprehensively awful. It was chaotic, violent, and filled with adults who didn't give a rat's ass.

for what it's worth- i shelter my child in some stuff but not others.

He's fully aware of drugs and i try to keep it real with him. Your best friend or family member will be the one to try and introduce drugs to you. One of my best friends died last year from a drug overdose. I told my kid about that - he cried.

Just recently we took a walk through the ghetto where junkies are on every block and you literally have to step over syringes every 5 feet. When we came across where a person literally took a dump on the sidewalk and was passed out with their pants around their ankles and doped out from their heroin high...i said, 'take a look around son, this is what drugs do to you.'

I DO shelter him from pornography and stuff like that though. But as far as giving the cold hard facts of the world, he's got a pretty good idea.

 

[Lubaolong]

With an intelligent, educated parent, homeschooling can be vastly superior, especially with a gifted child, as long as the kid is getting adequate social exposure.

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

One teacher per grade??? U mean one teacher is teaching every friggin subject???

Yep.

Now do you see a potential for indoctrination?

 

[SaiWa]

Yep.

Now do you see a potential for indoctrination?

i see a huge problem with quality of education. one lousy teacher and the kids could be screwed...

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

i see a huge problem with quality of education. one lousy teacher and the kids could be screwed...

That could perhaps be true, but that wasn't my question.

Do you see the potential for indoctrination?

 

[shinkyoku]

If your local school is garbage, and you genuinely can teach equal to or better than a trained professional in all the subjects taught in school, to a level where the kids are capable to follow up with higher education if they so chose, then ok.
If you want to shelter your kid from reality (including religious diversity & secularism), or indoctrinate them with junk psuedoscience, then fuck u.

 

[heloder]

I think it is more that public schools are pushing an agenda. They are indoctrinating the youth. Why does an elementary school all walk out in protest over trump being elected???

or do you hide your head up your ass and think this is not indoctrination of elementary school kids, ffs!

Yeah all that science and history bullshit is pushing an agenda and indoctrinating our children. We need to keep them at home so we can make them read the bible every day and learn TRUTH (read: push an agenda and indoctrinate them, except with make-believe instead)!

I honestly believe that you people should home school your children. Maybe under your brilliant tutelage they can become miserable failures and filter themselves out of the gene pool naturally.

 

[SaiWa]

That could perhaps be true, but that wasn't my question.

Do you see the potential for indoctrination?

Yes but as parents your influence is the greatest when it comes to molding your child's beliefs if you take an active part in their education. It is a problem but not much different if you had multiple teachers in each grade. This problem also lies with letting your child go to church. I am assuming there are good and bad preachers that do good or bad in molding your child's mind.

I have a general negative view of religion though I am sure you know where I believe indoctrination is the worst...

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

This is how your kid becomes a weirdo